Julia Holter Quotes

It's better for the listener to interpret their own meanings to the music.

Each time I play a song it seems more real.

As I listened more and more to the music that moved me, I gained more fascination with America.

I bring a record home, and it connects with me like nothing else. In my ideal situation, somebody will do that with my record.

If there's a song that stops meaning anything to me, then I'll quit playing it.

Music is about listening, the more you play, the more the magic spreads.

When I started learning the cello, I fell in love with the instrument because it seemed like a voice - my voice.

I had no interest in music. But now, music means everything to me. I have no words to explain how beautiful music is. It is where you can create everything, like beautiful songs to sad songs to almost anything.

I see music as a lifetime affair.

Ultimately, you're looking for a soulful experience when you listen to any form music.

When I perform, I like to immerse myself in the music, and I just try to get off on the diversity of music.

Sometimes when you're writing on a ukulele, you're in a totally new land, rhythmically or melodically.

I've always loved music, but I never really played anything. After 'Walk the Line' and learning to play guitar, and having that sense of performing, I think that certainly opened the door for me, for music.

But the greatest thing about music is putting it out there for people to figure out. You want the listener to find the song on their own. If you give too much away, it takes away from the imagination.

I think that every new record is a chance to... I think what it is for me is my heart and soul at that moment in time... I've always felt that just being able to make a record is a privilege.

How we absorb music is unique. I know what I do. When I'm listening to music, I tend to find myself in a song. That's what really makes you connect is if you feel what that song is saying.

Music shouldn't be a chore or feel like any kind of burden.

I think you can move to everything, but with some music, you just want to sit still. That's me, anyway.

I've been loving music all my life.

My intentions have been, and are always, to just really get behind what my ideas are musically and to just ride this thing out, cause it feels good, and I think for the most part it's good music. Even when it's not, I'd like to still search for something that could be even like a little bit mind-blowing or shocking to me.

Songs come from all over the place. You can't predict what you're going to like. You might like something that doesn't fit right now. What was working for you at one point, something you've loved for years and years, when you get together with everybody, you think, this doesn't match up with what's going on with you personally.

What we have to get clear to kids is that when you offer your stillness and open yourself to the experience of music, it pays you back more than you give.

I've had so many hot, cheesy, corny loves of music in my life. I had a very intense Billy Joel period. So once you've really Joeled it up - there's some good periods of Joel; it's not all hot cheese. But I can't judge anyone else for their cheese. I've deep-sea dived in the Gouda.

When you get down to it, the way that the music affects you individually is the most important thing, and when you let things like the location of a band get in the way or have an effect on your overview, you're cheating yourself out of a really good time.

Every day I feel different about music, but what never changes is my love for it.