American - Musician | December 18, 1984 -
I thought I was gonna get a doctorate in composition or be a composer and be at a university for the rest of my life, mostly because my parents are academics, and that was the logical thing to do.
Julia Holter
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I don't often meet with strangers and feel okay about collaborating with them.
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I am very interested in the human voice and how we use it, especially when we aren't thinking, like the kind of stuff Robert Ashley was interested in.
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'Betsy' is one of my favorites because it is the one to which I've imposed the least clear narrative. To me, it's so much more about the feeling - desperation - than any kind of story at all. There's very little imagery or character development; it's just about a deep and desperate search for something.
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The meaning of the words in my songs are very important to me. But what's most important to me is that the music works.
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David Bowie - I definitely knew some of his music as a teenager, but I didn't actually listen to his music as much until I was in my 20s.
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I try to not think too much about how people are receiving my music. And I'm not really famous enough that it's a problem.
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I don't think I'll ever become a pop star.
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One of the struggles that I have with classical music is the way one thinks about a recapitulation. There's always this idea of themes, and I have trouble with that.
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I don't know how well I work in traditions. I don't know if it's just the way I listened to music growing up and never having my foot in one particular world, and just wanting to do my own thing.
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I say most of my music is very trial-and-error.
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I don't consider myself supremely talented, but I really like to try things and sift through it and see what mess I made.
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