Carrie Brownstein Quotes

I didn't think music was possible for me - it's such an up-and-down life.

My outlet is my music, and it's been this way since I was 4 years old.

I listen to all kinds of songs. There's something to be learned from every type of music and from the one making it, whether it's pop or jazz or hip-hop.

Basically, I started singing when I started talking. Music has just been my saving grace my whole life.

When I was very little, I was into Michael Jackson. At six or seven, it was Madonna, but she's not what she used to be. I've been into everything from Edith Piaf to Joe Strummer to the Velvet Underground to Suicide to A Tribe Called Quest to African music.

It's pretty cool to see how far music can take you.

I do music for the love of it, and I've been doing it from a very young age: about 11.

I've been loving music all my life.

I used to play flute and clarinet at school, and although I wasn't thinking about making a living or getting a pay cheque, I already knew I was going to play music all my life.

I knew I wanted to do music at eight years of age. I listened to a lot of Motown growing up, and it got to the point where I started mimicking people - Michael Jackson or whoever. People started to notice I could hold a tone. The bug was always there.

Kanye took me from a kid who listened to music to a kid who lived music.

I love music, I make films with music, I eat with music, I sleep with music, I think with music. Music makes me dream; it strengthens my creativity.

I'm just so grateful to be a part of BABYMETAL because without this opportunity, I wouldn't have had a deeper connection to music!

When it comes to music, something I'm passionate about, and knowing the reach and the power and how it transforms, it saves lives. Music does.

No matter what went down, music was always going to be a part of my life. What ultimately happened is that, over a period of time, I just kind of looked around and when like, 'Wow! I'm actually making a living doing this.'

I love 'Battles,' and I love what it's doing for people.

Sometimes you get so jaded, you don't have those initial connections and emotions with music, because you are promoting your own.

If I can help a kid discover a liking, or even a passion for music in their life, then that's a wonderful thing.

I try to listen to over a hundred different songs a day. I listen to every single thing. If you're just listening to pop music, you're just gonna make pop music. I listen to Adele, Yo Yo Ma, Gucci Mane.

Music is the medium that has taken me around the world, and I would be lying if I said I could live without music.

My sisters and I like a lot of different styles of music, but we're inspired by real artists like Beyonce and Adele.

I think music will thrive where it wants to.

At 18, I moved to L.A. with my heavy metal band Avant Garde, which was very much influenced by Metallica. At 19, I got a job at Tower Records, and everything started to change very quickly. I started listening to the Velvet Underground, Pixies, early Nirvana, Sonic Youth, and also earlier music like the Beatles.

So okay, I accepted, and I realized while working for that concert that I'd been missing something very important and vital to me, and that something was music.

My dad wanted me to play when I was a kid, so I learned to play the guitar. I pursued a career in music because I love it so much and I enjoy what it does to those who hear it.