American - Musician | December 18, 1984 -
I don't think all music that is considered 'avant-garde' is bad, but it's definitely elitist. I hope my music is not that.
Julia Holter
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I think my music is experimental, playful, challenging, focused, fun. I don't want it to be thought of as trying to appeal to a certain type of person or being very cerebral.
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I try to ignore people's opinions about my music - you don't want to hold yourself back because of that stuff.
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I was pretty scared of the idea as a younger person of being a musician on the road. It didn't occur to me as a possibility.
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'Maxim's' was supposed to be on 'Ekstasis,' but it was very much in its own world.
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The Beatles, even Radiohead, all of my favorite stuff I'd play on the piano. But it was all very secret - for me, for fun. I wasn't going to record myself playing those songs, and it never occurred to me to write a song of my own.
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If I'm kind of sad or depressed, it doesn't necessarily help me to write a song about exactly what I'm depressed about.
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I really write at home on my own, and the demos themselves are very similar to the final recordings in a lots of ways.
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Saying that something is accessible gives it this implication that people need something, and thinking that we know what people need or want is really unpleasant. I don't like to think that way, like, predicting what it is that the people want.
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I don't write thinking directly about what I'm feeling, usually. I just let myself write whatever comes out without it necessarily being directly a translation of what I'm aware that I'm feeling, you know?
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I don't fit into a group very well socially. And that might be reflected in my music.
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A lot of my personal life feels very separate from my music.
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