- Imagination
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- I Can
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- Nov 07, 2020
Melodies are just honest. They can only be what they are. Words have the capacity for deception. They're all full of subtext, and some of them are cliche and overused and vernacular. They're tricky. All I can say is, words are tricky.
- Big
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- Nov 07, 2020
Honestly, I didn't have the patience for biology or history in an academic sense, but I always liked the kind of big questions.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am, in some sense, a writer. Even though I kinda downplay the word thing, I do enjoy writing sometimes.
- Guitar
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- Nov 07, 2020
Since I first picked up the violin, I've been very interested in tone and texture: I would have very visceral reactions to the texture of a snare drum or a pedal steel guitar or a violin.
- Ear
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- Nov 07, 2020
The fact that I wasn't expected to read music at all and was absorbing everything by ear... it had a huge affect on the kind of musician that I became.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
What's cool about indie rock is that one band can do effectively the same thing as another band, and one band nails it, and the other one doesn't. I like that elusiveness.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always found that whatever you say about indie rock, it is the most inclusive genre or title for anything. It doesn't pin you down too much, like other labels would. It's just newer, it has less baggage. I'm happy to be in that category.
- Play
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well, my main instrument is violin, but I think of myself as a songwriter who happens to play violin.
- Brain
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't want technology to take me so far that I don't have to use my brain anymore. It's like GPS taking over and losing your internal compass. It's always got to be tactile, still organic.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
Usually bands with violins - it's this little, poorly amplified looking kind of futile on stage, and that's not the way that my music is put together.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
I still kind of believe this absurd line that if you have to write it down, it's not worth remembering.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
I mean, you still can't jump offstage and go read a book. But I'm getting better at it. It is something you can manage. You can still give everything you have to the audience onstage, and have something for yourself.
- Jazz
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- Nov 07, 2020
All the folks I play with come from jazz backgrounds or at least appreciate spontaneity within the parameters of a pop song.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've done my share of busking, and it's fun until it isn't. There are musicians in the subways that will make you cry, they're so good.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
No, it's not dissatisfaction that inspires me to tinker with my songs, it's just restlessness.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
What you see with your eyes when you're making music is going to have a profound effect on what you hear.
- Flying
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always been fascinated and stared at maps for hours as a kid. I've especially been most intrigued by the uninhabited or lonelier places on the planet. Like Greenland, for instance, or just recently flying over Alaska and a chain of icy, mountainous islands, uninhabited.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Maybe it's just, I've always been to the less traveled places, in any topic, whether it's history, I always like to just choose the most obscure topic. And I don't know why I have that impulse. I can't really explain it but I've been doing that since I was a little kid.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
You travel with the hope that something unexpected will happen. It has to do with enjoying being lost and figuring it out and the satisfaction. I always get a little disappointed when I know too well where I'm going, or when I've lived in a place so long that there's no chance I could possibly get lost.
- Morning
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every time I get up in the morning, melodies occur to me and I start trying to shape lyrics to melodies.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I create little challenges for myself, like, 'Okay, whatever you do in this song, you've got to somehow work in Greek Cypriots,' or something like that.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I spend a lot of time working by myself developing songs, but I really need some other counterpart to help me pull it all together, because you go nuts working if I had to finish an entire project all within my own head.
- Singing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Playing the violin and singing and whistling are just three different ways of making sound.
- Meaning
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- Nov 07, 2020
I guess I'm attracted to more archaic words because they can be imbued with more meaning, because their definition is elusive.
- Nov 07, 2020
I don't write poetry and then strum some chords and then fit the words on top of the chords.
- Handmade
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- Nov 07, 2020
There was a fascinating handmade poster scene in Chicago in the '90s, and I became friends with many of the artists; the posters were often more impressive than the bands.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
A good espresso to me is a little bit salty; you just become used to a good taste. Anytime I go into a new place and they don't clean their machine properly or the water temperature isn't right, it tastes awful.
- Practice
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is something comforting about going into a practice room, putting your sheet music on a stand and playing Bach over and over again.
- Nov 07, 2020
The first notes I still play when I start a sound check are classical. Those are my roots.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020