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Be free, and live life fully.

~Caroline Shaw

Topics: Free Fully Life Live Live Life

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Every day, you have to make three hours of music, just randomly improvising, and that's a great way to weed stuff out.

~Caroline Shaw

Topics: Day Every Every Day Great Great Way Hours Improvising Just Make Music Out Randomly Stuff Three Way Weed You

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I've been gearing up for this future of writing a lot of new music by digging into my favorite old stuff, and twisting it around and highlighting the things I really love.

~Caroline Shaw

Topics: Around Been Digging Favorite Future Lot Love Music New New Music Old Old Stuff Really Stuff Things Up Writing

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I was curious about experimenting with different colors - kind of like having an expanded orchestra. Suddenly, instead of just writing for strings, you can add bassoon and oboe and brass. I like these extreme differences in sounds right next to each other.

~Caroline Shaw

Topics: About Add Brass Colors Curious Differences Different Different Colors Each Experimenting Extreme Having Instead Just Kind Like Next Orchestra Other Right Sounds Strings Suddenly Writing You

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I've done a lot of performance practice, Baroque playing, and some of the joy and the challenge of it is figuring out what the composer intended... You have music of the 17th century - it's all whole notes and half notes. But inside of that, there are so many things that one can do, at least according to what we know about performance practice.

~Caroline Shaw

Topics: About According Baroque Century Challenge Composer Done Figuring Half Inside Intended Joy Know Least Lot Many Music Notes Out Performance Playing Practice Some Things Whole You

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I don't really call myself a composer.

~Caroline Shaw

Topics: Call Composer Myself Really

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Living in New York City, you have to keep trying to do a lot of things.

~Caroline Shaw

Topics: City Keep Living Lot New New York New York City Things Trying York You

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I played a lot of Bach's partitas and sonatas; I like the way that Bach was abstracting already from these dance forms.

~Caroline Shaw

Topics: Bach Dance Forms Like Lot Played Way

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I consider myself a musician.

~Caroline Shaw

Topics: Consider Musician Myself

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I've been singing with Roomful of Teeth since the beginning in 2009, and it's a really mind-blowingly wonderful vocal ensemble. Very brave and very creative, and they're some of my closest friends.

~Caroline Shaw

Topics: Been Beginning Brave Closest Closest Friends Creative Ensemble Friends Really Since Singing Some Teeth Very Vocal Wonderful

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Musician

Born: Unknown

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