American - Musician | December 18, 1984 -
I usually like to hide my vocals behind the music. I don't like to hide them consciously, but I have a tendency to prefer the vocal at the same level as everything else and put lots of reverb on it.
Julia Holter
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In high school, I would secretly play Joni Mitchell songs all the time. That's when I started singing and playing at the same time, and I got really into doing that.
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If I feel like I'm myself, then I'm very uncomfortable.
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I've never felt at home anywhere.
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I don't thrive in a school or academic environment, I found out. I thrive better in the world outside the small academy because I find it hard to explain what I'm doing.
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Putting my audience to sleep isn't what I'm going for.
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In L.A., you can play forever, and no one around the world will hear you.
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I started writing music as a composer in school, in the classical tradition.
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To me, the process of art is very much a process of translation, of borrowing.
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I started playing piano when I was eight, and I went on to study piano in school, so I have a background in classical piano and studied composition in school. Writing music came later.
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I take music very seriously, but it's important to me that my music is - I don't know if 'intuitive' is the word, but there's a really important element of something kind of mysterious. It's not academic or esoteric.
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I really love working with Ramona from Nite Jewel. We've kind of grown up together.
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