Keren Ann Quotes

Music takes me where I go. I'm always open to wherever the journey will take me.

Don't play the saxophone. Let it play you.

With Zeppelin, I tried to play something different every night in my solos. I'd play for 20 minutes but the longest ever was 30 minutes. It's a long time, but whenI was playing it seemed to fly by.

I'm by no means a pianist. I think that's safe to say, but the piano, for me, I would say it's the enabler. It gave me what I needed and gives me what I need in order to write a song. And I think playing or improvising on the piano is where I feel most liberated and sort of less conscious of all my insecurities or inadequacies.

I learned that music should be fun and should be a way to express yourself - that there aren't really any rules.

I didn't really know what I was doing when I started. I just started writing songs. After two songs I just continued to explore it.

My music is like my freedom space.

Many times in music, if you are given limitations, it expands the creativity.

I have fallen back in love with music, which has allowed me to get back to my roots and create sounds without borders.

I think that you have to bear in mind that music is about escape, and it's not unreasonable to think the music business would be based around escapism.

Everything I see and hear... I will take ideas from anyplace, anywhere, anytime, and life has become a song to me. I'm always looking for a song.

I don't always have to be on what is the newest in music is. I'm slowly educating myself in music. For me, I feel more free in not knowing everything in what I'm doing. You can start making up too many rules for yourself. It should just be love and fun and feeling good.

I had no aspirations to be a musician, but I picked up a guitar for two seconds and haven't put it down since.

Music itself is a great source of relaxation. Parts of it anyway. Working in the studio, that's not relaxing, but playing an instrument that I don't know how to play is unbelievably relaxing, because I don't have any pressure on me.

If I'm inspired and music inspires me, then I will continue to play it.

I think it's like music for the sake of music, and a lot of the words stem from liking music a lot, wanting to be a good band and having a good sense of humour, and living in a situation where we're free to pretty much do what we want.

When I start playing I'm just a rollercoaster of sound. I don't know what's coming next, I never do, and I sit and sign and talk to the people afterwards.

Some people are drawn naturally - there are natural guitarists, and there are natural piano players, and I think guitar implies travel, a sort of footloose gypsy existence. You grab your bag and you go to the next town.

To me, music has to be about freedom. It's the most important thing in my life.

I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.

Music is like an open sky. You know it's out there... and there you are.

Any talk of 'craft' makes me laugh. My music looks outward; it does not gaze upon itself in admiration. Artisanal is for cheesemakers. I don't know anything about music theory. Every time I approach my guitar, it's like the first time. There's no craft in that.

I look at my clarinet sometimes and I think, I wonder what's going to come out of there tonight? You never know.

It was like I had a baby and I suddenly started to feel I could play anything.

Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.