Carrie Brownstein Quotes

I'm interested in music as an extension of character.

I have music inside me and I'm very lucky to be able to play music and that's the way that I try to do it.

Violin was my first form of expression - and is still in a lot of ways.

I'm kind of lucky in the fact that I can take something that's in my head and write it down, or I can listen to a piece of music that somebody else has written and try to tap into what the music's saying and just kind of follow that, you know. I mean, nine times out of 10, I'm just kind of following where the music takes me.

The music I turn out these days is the kind of music I want to hear myself.

I don't play pyrotechnic scales. I play about frustration, patience, anger. Music is an extension of my soul.

I try to do things that keep me interested. And play music that moves me. I like to move around and play in a lot of different ways.

I play guitar and write music, and that's definitely a huge part of my life, but it's my personal thing that I have for me.

I picked Dad's guitar up when I was 8. It hurt to play, so I put it down and picked it back up when I was 15 and dug in. The guitar helped me come out of my shell and kind of gave me an identity at school.

I'm approaching a period in my life though where I'd like to be totally absorbed into music, doing concerts, writing something. Basically, that IS what I am doing.

My music is an extension of who I am and what I went through and what I know musically.

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

When I got into music, I wanted to learn guitar just enough to be able to write songs. I wanted to be able to express myself.

I don't feel like I'm on a mission. I'm trying to play music that I like to play and like to listen to.

I mean, if you decided to go out today and get you an instrument and do whatever it is that you do, no one can tell you how you're going to do it but when you do it.

I always say that music is a small drop in the ocean of life. I was told a long time ago that your horn, or whatever instrument you play, is a means to be in the world.

When I started doing music, it was out of despair and boredom. I got passionate about it, and I felt that it allowed me to become somebody: an artist who explores her different identities.

My creativeness stems from my love of music. Music is pure emotion. Music is the infinity sign. Music is self-expression in its purest form - it's how I express my anger, my self-doubt, my love. I think my music is very vulnerable and very expressive, very transparent.

I always dreamed, when I started writing music, to find a way of immersing yourself in it.

As a solo artist, my desire is to express myself through my music.

Everything I did is because I wanted to do it. If I weren't playing this arena, if I were playing a club, I'd still be doing it because that's what I want to do. I love playing the guitar.

My guitar is not a thing. It is an extension of myself. It is who I am.

People don't have fun making music all the time.

I do music because I can just pick up my guitar and sing, and completely satisfy, instant gratification. I don't need a script, I don't people, I don't need anything, cameras, I just have myself and my guitar, or keyboard.

I love classical music and have been playing violin since I was seven. Music helps me to express feelings in a way words often cannot.