Petra Haden Quotes
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People want to hear clean sounds; they don't want to hear coughing in the background, pages turning.
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I played violin from when I was about eight to thirteen, so I could read a little bit, but if you put a piece of music in front of me now, I would probably know the notes, but not the timing, how they're supposed to be played, and I just don't know how to read chords. If I'd stuck with it, I'd probably have more jobs.
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When we were on breaks from recording and touring, I was kind of moping around, like not knowing what to do. It was hard to adjust back to normal life after being so busy.
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I never punched in anything when I recorded Imaginaryland. Where the title came from is a whole other story.
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Harmony has always come very natural to us because we started singing harmony at an early age. We heard a lot of different music growing up.
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People are born with the knack to write poems and songs. I'm not a poet at all.
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My forte is playing along and singing along to music I love. I mean, who knows, maybe I could develop that knack or develop that ability to write, and I do actually co-write with people and friends, which is fun, too, because then I don't have to worry about writing lyrics, because for me writing lyrics is impossible.
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You have to be a poet to know how to write a song with lyrics.