American - Musician | December 18, 1984 -
I do have a big problem with the idea of music as a form of communication unless it's political - and that's where it's tricky because a lot of music is political, even if it's not overtly so. But my music isn't that; it's about a feeling.
Julia Holter
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Green tea is my main source of caffeine, so I drink it every day.
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One thing that's really important to me in my music is mystery.
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I did study with Anne Carson briefly in Michigan. She taught there, and that's where I first encountered her, in her class.
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I like mantras and repeating things, like in pop music, where you repeat a line over and over again. It's just so beautiful.
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'Have You in My Wilderness,' the title track, is about the idea of possessing a person, or saying, 'You're mine; you're in my world now.' I was drawn to that as an idea less from my own experience than from listening to music written by men that was kind of male gaze-y.
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I basically just write stream of consciousness to a certain extent. I let the song kind of go where it wants to go.
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Musical themes developing is a lot of what classical music is based on, and exposition and recapitulation - these kinds of things I find oppressive.
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I'm not an unhappy person - I'm just an anxious person. It runs in the family.
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Most records are usually not united by one specific story, but that seems to be something that I like and that I find easy to do.
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All I ever know is what I want to do next.
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It's hard for me to get shows in the U.S. It's that simple. I don't know what that means. I think it means there's not as much support here for my music?
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