Carrie Brownstein (Carrie Rachel Brownstein) Quotes

These new bands sound like Gang of Four — if Gang of Four sucked.

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• I read Carver. Julio Cortazar. Amis's essays. Baldwin. Lorrie Moore. Capote. Saramago. Larkin. Wodehouse. Anything, anything at all, that doesn't sound like me.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Me
  • Like
  • Sound

• Sure, we've had our fair share of ups and downs, but I don't know if we've had more than any other rock band... we just have a way of getting ourselves into hot water.

  

  Carl Wilson
  • Water
  • Band
  • Rock

• It's certainly no coincidence that big bands became the entertainment of the army in WWI and WWII, and that jazz drumming style is very military influenced. The snare drum comes from the military and becomes the core kind of sound of jazz drums.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Style
  • Military
  • Army

• I like guitar. It just turned out that it's the instrument I learned to play. I have a lot of respect for it, and I'm learning more and more every day. For me, the classic band setup - guitars, drums, bass - will stay fresh forever. I don't know. I'm still into it.

  

  Mac DeMarco
  • Respect
  • Day
  • Learning

• I think that I sound a lot better than Diana Ross.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Think
  • Better
  • Sound

• So finger-bang, Pootie Tang/Burger Kang, Gucci Gang, dookie, dang/Charlamagne gonna hate anyway, doesn't matter what I say/Give me Donkey of the Day/What a way for 2018 to get underway/But I'm gonna say everything that I wanna say/Welcome to the slaughterhouse, bitch! (yeah)/Invite 'em in like a One A Day/I'm not done (preach)

  

  Eminem
  • Done
  • Hate
  • Gang

• The best AC/DC cover I've heard? There was an all-girl cover band in America, the Hell's Belles.

  

  Angus Young
  • America
  • Girl
  • Band

• I could think of nothing more insufferable than members of one’s own gang dropping in full of sympathy and their own affairs.

  

  Agatha Christie
  • Sympathy
  • Gang

• The American Music Awards mean more to us; that's a people's award, and we're a people's band. The Grammys are the critics.

  

  David Bryan Bon Jovi
  • People
  • Music
  • American

• The danger of a rock band is repeating oneself. It's our greatest fear - that it evolves into the myopia of a semi-successful band that's in love with its own shadow.

  

  Bryce Dessner The National
  • Fear
  • Band
  • Rock

• The politicians are all useless individuals. Nobody is reducing the problems in the U.S. or Europe, just putting on a Band-Aid and postponing the problems endlessly.

  

  Marc Faber
  • Band

• One of the things that I loved about listening to Miles Davis is that Miles always had an instinct for which musicians were great for what situations. He could always pick a band, and that was the thing that separated him from everybody else.

  

  Branford Marsalis
  • Great
  • Band
  • Listening

• One Direction. Proper pop band. There has to be a band that people want to scream at. I don't think I've ever behaved like a pop star.

  

  Chris Lowe Pet Shop Boys
  • People
  • Band
  • Star

• I was in a band called the SteelDrivers, and we just played hard in vans, hopping on airplanes, not knowing where you're at.

  

  Chris Stapleton
  • Band

• The songs were there before the band was there, and it's my songs. And it's like, we're not in the 1950s. We can't call ourselves, like, 'The Revolvers' - it just doesn't work that way. And 'The Lukas Graham Band' just sounded wrong.

  

  Lukas Forchhammer Lukas Graham
  • Work
  • Band

• I played the sax at school. I was in marching band.

  

  Sidney Royel Selby III
  • School
  • Band

• I was writing songs by 12 and had a band by 14.

  

  Jon Pardi
  • Writing
  • Band

• Belonging to the Gang of Eight carries massive responsibility in representing all 435 members of the legislature in very sensitive national security exercises.

  

  Pete Hoekstra
  • Responsibility
  • Gang

• We moved leisurely towards Mount Foster, on the 22nd, and arrived opposite to it a little before sunset.

  

  Charles Sturt
  • Sunset

• I think a lot of actors, comedians, musicians, artists are drawn to this world, because you're allowed to excavate whatever it is that you're struggling with, and hopefully turn it into art.

  

  Sandra Bullock
  • Thinking
  • Art
  • Artist

• No matter how sophisticated the reason, a murder is a murder, and similarly, it doesn’t matter how great the motive is, if you can’t kill, you won’t. But someone who can kill definitely will.

  

  Natsuhiko Kyogoku
  • Matter
  • Murder
  • Motive

• Soaps are great. You learn to work very fast - some say superficially, but that's not really true. You do some very serious character work. I've never had any feelings about a stigma attached to it, and nowadays there seems to be less snobbery about what you do. More and more big names are doing TV and commercials and voiceovers.

  

  Charles Shaughnessy
  • Work
  • Great
  • Character

• These new bands sound like Gang of Four — if Gang of Four sucked.

  

  Carrie Brownstein
  • Band
  • Sound
  • Gang