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It was writing about music for NPR - connecting with music fans and experiencing a sense of community - that made me want to write songs again. I began to feel I was in my head too much about music, too analytical.

~Carrie Brownstein

Topics: About Again Analytical Began Community Connecting Experiencing Fans Feel Head Made Me Much Music Sense Songs Too Too Much Want Write Writing Npr

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I have no desire to play music unless I need music.

~Carrie Brownstein

Topics: Desire Music Need No Desire Play Play Music Unless

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Chemistry cannot be manufactured or forced, so Wild Flag was not a sure thing, it was a 'maybe,' a 'possibility.' But after a handful of practice sessions, spread out over a period of months, I think we all realized that we could be greater than the sum of our parts.

~Carrie Brownstein

Topics: After Cannot Chemistry Could Flag Forced Greater Handful Maybe Months Our Out Over Parts Period Possibility Practice Realized Spread Sum Sure Than Thing Think Wild I Think

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Music has always been my constant, my salvation. It's cliche to write that, but it's true.

~Carrie Brownstein

Topics: Always Been Cliche Constant Music Salvation True Write

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The hedonistic lifestyle is difficult to achieve when you're still carrying your own gear. Trust me that you don't feel glamorous with a 60-pound amp in your arms; it's a lot less sexy than toting a vodka gimlet and impossible to do in heels.

~Carrie Brownstein

Topics: Achieve Amp Arms Carrying Difficult Feel Gear Glamorous Hedonistic Heels Impossible Less Lifestyle Lot Me Own Sexy Still Than Trust Trust Me Vodka You Your

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To really be tortured by a song, it needs to be more than just something you don't like or don't get; it has to make your skin crawl by getting under it. Strangely, that last clause could describe provocative or daring music, as well.

~Carrie Brownstein

Topics: Clause Could Crawl Daring Describe Get Getting Just Just Something Last Like Make More Music Needs Provocative Really Skin Something Song Strangely Than Tortured Well You Your

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I'll admit that I'm not quite certain how to sum up an entire year in music anymore; not when music has become so temporal, so specific and personal, as if we each have our own weather system and what we listen to is our individual forecast.

~Carrie Brownstein

Topics: Admit Anymore Become Certain Each Entire Forecast How Individual Listen Music Our Own Personal Quite Specific Sum System Temporal Up Weather Year

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Rihanna has guts and she always seems to be singing from someplace honest, dark and fierce.

~Carrie Brownstein

Topics: Always Dark Fierce Guts Honest Rihanna Seems She Singing Someplace

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I've never understood people who play up the artifice of music.

~Carrie Brownstein

Topics: Artifice Music Never People Play Understood Up Who

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I'm pretty horrible at relationships and haven't been in many long-term ones. Leaving and moving on - returning to a familiar sense of self-reliance and autonomy - is what I know; that feeling is as comfortable and comforting as it might be for a different kind of person to stay.

~Carrie Brownstein

Topics: Autonomy Been Comfortable Comforting Different Different Kind Familiar Feeling Horrible Kind Know Leaving Long-Term Many Might Moving Moving On Person Pretty Relationships Returning Self-Reliance Sense Stay

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Musician

Born: September 27th, 1974

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