Anna Meredith Quotes

If I'm feeling confident, then I write confident, happy, or assured music. I can hear some early electronic sketches I did where I'm clearly not confident and everything's a bit mid-range, nothing really pushes through.

Anna Meredith

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  • Music
  • Write
  • Confident