Courtney Barnett Quotes
I'm very hands on with my music - I do all the artwork and everything myself - and the songs I write aren't necessarily the most commercial.
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I think the music I've created is quite odd, and people are going to start talking about that.
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Good music is good music, regardless of where it comes from. I think that's a really important thing to carry with you.
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The music comes through me, and I let it come the way it comes, and it shapes itself. I just hold space for it. I don't intend to write it for a purpose, but it comes as it comes and am proud of the way it can support change because I believe strongly in what I sing about.
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As you begin to realize that every different type of music, everybody's individual music, has its own rhythm, life, language and heritage, you realize how life changes, and you learn how to be more open and adaptive to what is around us.
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Music means different things to different people and sometimes even different things to the same person at different moments of his life.
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Each time I seem to go through one of life's huge things, I want to play music.
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Music rhythms are mathematical patterns. When you hear a song and your body starts moving with it, your body is doing math. The kids in their parents' garage practicing to be a band may not realize it, but they're also practicing math.
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There's nothing like a music festival. People are ready to have a good time. I don't think anyone comes to a festival going, 'I'm gonna be a complete bummer today.'
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I'm going to put music out when I feel like it's ready.
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I don't listen to my old music of Vanity's unless I have to hear it playing in a mall or something place like that.
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I don't think I'd ever make an album of just covers because I love writing my own music.
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If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.
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But anyone who knows anything about the music industry knows it's not only about the music.
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I'm an old-school, embarrassing Joni Mitchell fan. Her music made a hook in my soul and hasn't let go for all these years. I even sing her songs as lullabies to my kids.
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But since the middle of the century in particular, the music has become very irregular in rhythm.
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If everybody is happy, then something is wrong with the democratic process.
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I just do what I'm here for and that's to make that music.
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I go into military communities and do fundraisers and that kind of thing with the band, because I know that the music can help do a lot of things. It can bring communities together, it can raise awareness... and it entertains.
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People make music to get a reaction. Music is communication.
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I don't look at things in black and white. There are big gray areas. There's a lot of slippage.
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I don't think architecture is radical. How can something that takes years and costs millions be radical?
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Death comes at you no matter what you do in this life, and to equate drugs with death is a facile comparison.
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When it comes down to helping kids, a lot of ways for education to move forward is through music because that's exciting to kids. Reading books and going to a bookstore is not that exciting.
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I'm very hands on with my music - I do all the artwork and everything myself - and the songs I write aren't necessarily the most commercial.
