Clairo Quotes

Yeah, anybody can go in with two turntables and a microphone or a home studio sampler and a little cassette deck or whatever and make records in their bedrooms.

I've been making demos at home for many albums now. So over those years, I've learned how to record music, and I love being at home. I excel when I can make things at home.

I'm a huge fan of home recording. I think it levels the playing field. You don't need $100,000 to record a studio CD.

A lot of people who have been perceiving my music have been trying to formulate a genre for it, and I think it's just a natural thing; it doesn't need to be categorized. It doesn't need to be sectioned, if you will.

When I started working on my own music, I didn't have the chance to record in a big music studio, so I had to record everything myself.

I don't mind sitting at home playing the guitar for a year as long as I'm making good films.

I hate the term 'emo.' It turned into this genre of music, when all music, if you connect with it, is emotional.

When you say 'R&B,' people's minds automatically go in a place. How about I just say, 'Here's a tape; you can check it out on iTunes. You tell me.'

People grapple with labeling me as hip-hop, R&B, or pop, and it's interesting to me. I'm just making music.

I put some songs on the Internet back in 2009 - that's kind of how everything started with Washed Out. I had never really planned on being in a band or anything like that. It was kind of a hobby I did on my own, just recording music.

I started writing and recording, at a very basic level, just in my own bedroom.

I write pretty often. I have a home studio. Music is what I do for fun. I never get tired of it, so to take a break from [TV and movies], I would go make some music.

My main objective with a home studio - I could get into doing full band demos - but my first objective is to cut things like guitar tracks and solos at home.

People are making their own records in their houses. It's an exciting time.

I wouldn't call myself a jazz player or a blues player.

'Classic rock' is never a label that we've given ourselves - it's one of the many labels that's been imposed on us.

When I came up in a band - not just in a band, but a kind of underground DIY community - there was such a clear cut distinction between what pop was and what not pop was in very simplistic terms.

If you go back and listen to the album 'Name' was on, there were a lot of garage songs on it.

In high school, for two years, I made all my beats on earbuds. I'd just guess, so the frequencies would be all off.

I started making beats when I was nine in my bedroom and garage.

When I first started recording music, we would record in the closet with socks on the mic.

I made my entire first tape using Beats headphones - the studio headphones and halfway through the second one, because I finally started making a home studio. But I record and make all my beats with the Beats headphones.

I remember when I first saw 'Guided by Voices'; those earlier recordings are so deconstructed, kind of like four-track music, and so artful in their collage and in their weird fragility.

Almost everything I've ever recorded, I recorded myself at the desk, in my house.

I've always made music on my own, but I didn't think there was a platform for that, so I thought I had to pretend it was a band.