Carrie Brownstein (Carrie Rachel Brownstein) Quotes

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

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• I always dreamed of being Maria in The Sound of Music.

  

  Victoria Jackson
  • Music
  • Always
  • Sound

• In my relationship with a young guy I was going with in a band - his name was Sylvester, and I think he had another little girl on the side - I told him, 'If you lose me, you're going to lose a good thing.' And I went home and put that poem to music.

  

  Barbara Lynn
  • Good
  • Music
  • Home

• 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

• The best part of touring, still, is touching people's hearts and igniting my band and igniting the people into what you call a spiritual revelation is sound and emotion.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
  • People
  • Band
  • Best

• I grew up playing about 15 instruments and the way that I was able to accomplish that was by cutting my classes, hanging out in the band room all day, and going from one instrument to the next to the next, until I learned how to play everything by ear.

  

  Flavor Flav
  • Up
  • Play
  • Day

• 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

• Obviously any band, any group, someday is not going to be together anymore. That's the truth.

  

  Camila Cabello Fifth Harmony
  • Truth
  • Together
  • Band

• 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
  • Learning
  • Day

• 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

• Alice In Chains’ Jerry Cantrell Revisits the Band’s Five Records. Noisey (June 7, 2018).

  

  Jerry Cantrell
  • Band
  • June

• Why retire from something if you're loving it so much and enjoying it so much, and you're blessed with another group of people to work with like the gang on 'Hot in Cleveland?' Why would I think of retiring? What would I do with myself?

  

  Betty White
  • People
  • Work
  • Why

• Just the other day I pulled out this old cassette of Ragged Glory and I popped it into my cassette player and I was digging it. They were just a great rock and roll band, one that presents the song ahead of everything else - there's no grand idea or concept behind it.

  

  Krist Novoselic Nirvana
  • Great
  • Song
  • Band

• Then I left that school and I went to Cerritos College, which was in southern California; they had one of the best big band programs in the country at the time.

  

  Bobby McFerrin
  • Time
  • Country
  • School

• 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

• We've gotten better as a live band. The songs have been allowed to grow with our audience. I don't think I would have done it any other way.

  

  Bryce Dessner The National
  • Live
  • Done
  • Band

• For years, my dad's friend Joe was just my dad's friend. And it was only when I was 12 or 13 I learned that he was the lead singer of a band called The Clash.

  

  Alfie Allen
  • Dad
  • Friend
  • Band

• Kabbalah is all about change. It isn't about being proud of our good qualities: the wisdom is about transforming our darkness into light.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • Good
  • Light
  • Change

• He stared at the heart of his heart, the one woman in the world for him

  

  Eileen Wilks
  • World
  • Heart
  • Woman

• The dramatic sufferings of adults and all the cruel fantasies of those of my own age, who seemed abandoned to their own impulses in the midst of so many catastrophes, appeared to inscribe themselves on the walls around me.

  

  Antoni Tapies
  • Age
  • Catastrophe
  • Fantasies

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

  

  Carrie Brownstein
  • Band
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  • Gang