Carrie Brownstein Quotes - Page 3

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• I've learned to really enjoy video games. It's really toxic to have in your house, because it's really distracting.

  Carrie Brownstein

  Games, House, Toxic

  "Carrie Brownstein Talks Spells, Book, Sleater-Kinney". Interview with Amy Phillips, pitchfork.com. November 21, 2008.

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• I think one of the reasons I haven't been doing music is because I think that some of my performance, like, needs are being taken care of in other mediums.

  Carrie Brownstein

  Taken, Thinking, Needs

  "Carrie Brownstein Talks Spells, Book, Sleater-Kinney". Interview with Amy Phillips, pitchfork.com. November 21, 2008.

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• I think one of the reasons that we are able to actually keep making music that we want to make, and that we're inspired by, is because there is a certain amount of instability constantly, and I think that mirrors the instability of any given life.

  Carrie Brownstein

  Thinking, Inspired, Reason

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I grew up outside of Seattle, and have lived here my whole life, and I think that there is a culture of questioning, and guilt. Almost an "anti-ambition." Like, an awareness, and then a subsequent guilt. But sometimes that progressive, liberal guilt is really obnoxious, too - in some ways, I think it's better to just own it. It's weird, that actually, the acknowledgement of privilege or the enactment of guilt can be as obnoxious as anything else. It's a never-ending rabbit hole. We're really in a rabbit hole right now, with this conversation. We're just spiraling down into the void.

  Carrie Brownstein

  Thinking, Guilt, Culture

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It does feel great to be writing, but the process is sometimes excruciating.

  Carrie Brownstein

  Writing, Doe, Sometimes

  "Carrie Brownstein Talks Sleater-Kinney, Acting, Writing, and More". Interview with Tom Breihan, pitchfork.com. March 25, 2010.

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• Once you're away from music, I realize that's as intrinsic to who I am as anything else. That's the part that takes me out of my brain.

  Carrie Brownstein

  Who I Am, Brain, Realizing

  "Carrie Brownstein Talks Sleater-Kinney, Acting, Writing, and More". Interview with tom Breihan, pitchfork.com. March 25, 2010.

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• People give the words life through their own adoration or relationship to the work, and that's true of everything. You can't divorce critical or fan reaction. Once it exists, you forget that the words are arbitrary, or you start to remove value.

  Carrie Brownstein

  Divorce, People, Giving

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I've realized that I have a lot of different loves, and I want to pursue writing, but I can never divorce myself from music.

  Carrie Brownstein

  Writing, Divorce, Different

  "Carrie Brownstein Talks Sleater-Kinney, Acting, Writing, and More". Interview with Tom Breihan, pitchfork.com. March 25, 2010.

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• I'm always trying to encourage people not to limit themselves in the same way that many of our parents stayed with one job forever.

  Carrie Brownstein

  Jobs, Always Trying, People

  "Carrie Brownstein Talks Sleater-Kinney, Acting, Writing, and More". Interview with Tom Breihan, pitchfork.com. March 25, 2010.

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• I like how blogging emulates fandom because it's so completist and spontaneous. It really mirrors the way people listen to music, and I like that fluidity with online content.

  Carrie Brownstein

  Mirrors, People, Way

  "Carrie Brownstein Talks Sleater-Kinney, Acting, Writing, and More". Interview with Tom Breihan, pitchfork.com. March 25, 2010.

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• I've always loved writing. Doing that at the same time as playing music can be tiring.

  Carrie Brownstein

  Writing, Playing Music, Tire

  "Carrie Brownstein Talks Sleater-Kinney, Acting, Writing, and More". Interview with Tom Breihan, pitchfork.com. March 25, 2010.

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• I've honestly always been an overly analytical, highly observant person. I was playing music but thinking about it at same time, which was sort of exhausting. Aside from the pain of writing - you're not really in a gang like you are in band, it's a little bit lonelier - I think it was always something that I'd wanted to do. So the transition wasn't abrupt or painful.

  Carrie Brownstein

  Pain, Writing, Thinking

  "15 Minutes With Carrie Brownstein". Interview With Nikki Gloudeman, www.motherjones.com. March 22, 2010.

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• I would love to do a reunion tour if it only involved basements across the U.S.

  Carrie Brownstein

  Reunion, Basements, Involved

  "Carrie Brownstein Talks Spells, Book, Sleater-Kinney". Interview with Amy Phillips, pitchfork.com. November 21, 2008.

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• If your whole world of a band or music is taking place in a digital realm or on technological devices, it's all mediated through those things. That takes away from the experiential and sensual nature of music. That's a lot less exciting for me to think about. It's not my ideal way of living with music.

  Carrie Brownstein

  Thinking, Sensual, World

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I've noticed that as someone who has done music and creative things in Washington state and Portland, to kind of toot your own horn, or admit, "I'm going for it. I'm hustling," is not exactly the norm. Which is weird, because you go to New York, or LA, or anywhere else, you've got to be gunning for it - and you should be - you're part of a fast-moving stream of other people who are really ambitious. People move here to work less. So, to say that you're hustling all the time, and going for it, is kind of a little bit against the grain here.

  Carrie Brownstein

  Moving, People, Creative

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think we as people struggle for what is meaningful in our lives, and I think that modern, contemporary life is as easy as it's ever been, for many, many people, and the amount of physical exertion, for most people, is less than it's ever been. I think that there is something about the ritual of making things more difficult that people find meaning in.

  Carrie Brownstein

  Meaningful, Struggle, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think that the intentions are genuine in the search for authenticity, but it can tip over into absurdity so quickly. I just start to wonder, like, what authenticity even is, and whether we can even start to define it in such a globalized world.

  Carrie Brownstein

  Thinking, World, Wonder

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I don't think I would live outside of the Northwest. I think the quality of life in Portland is really good. People move from intense, high-powered jobs, and move to Portland, work half as much and live twice as good. They can afford bigger houses, or they can actually afford to buy a house, they can work the minimal amount and still get by. I think there's a really strong sense of community there. It's beautiful.

  Carrie Brownstein

  Beautiful, Strong, Moving

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• We brainstorm an idea and then we do flesh it out a little bit - we come up with a script, mostly to have beats and a sense of a story and a narrative arc. Often when we get into the space and onto the location, that changes and something we discover in the moment becomes the moment, becomes the story, becomes the character.

  Carrie Brownstein

  Character, Moments

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think a lot of the intention of bands, especially in the last year, is to spread themselves out geographically and borrow from different cultures and different sounds, and to be eclectic. And that's great in terms of dynamics, but it also tends to not have that torpedo and fire running through it. If you're spreading yourself out across the globe, you're also not emphasizing a singular point, which I think great rock music has always done.

  Carrie Brownstein

  Running, Thinking, Different

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I don't think you need to sound like from where you're from. But I think there is something magical and powerful about encompassing something fully and singularly.

  Carrie Brownstein

  Powerful, Thinking

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I've always been a fan first and foremost - obsessing over bands and seeking out bands, and spending hours and hours listening. When I played music, the scope of my fandom became more myopic; I was focusing on the bands we were touring with, or the bands on the label. And you're always positing yourself in relation to other bands. Since I haven't been playing, I feel a little less cynical. I'm able to seek out music and approach it strictly as a fan.

  Carrie Brownstein

  Cynical, Listening, Hours

  "15 Minutes With Carrie Brownstein". Interview With Nikki Gloudeman, www.motherjones.com. March 22, 2010.

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• When I'm cynical, I seek out bands that are fully participating and trying to push something forward. Or I can just start playing music again - which is happening with a new project. But I think it's always a challenge to overcome cynicism and not get bogged down by a sense of nostalgia. That can be such a stifling feeling.

  Carrie Brownstein

  Thinking, Cynical, Challenges

  "15 Minutes With Carrie Brownstein". Interview With Nikki Gloudeman, www.motherjones.com. March 22, 2010.

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• Living in Portland, which is a predominantly white city, the privilege and the luxury to be able to obsess over a certain kind of minutia, that I think, if you did not have that privilege, would never be bothersome. When people are worried about whether "local" means 100 miles, or 50 miles, or 10 miles from a grocery store, I just think, "Wow. What a privilege it is to have that as a major concern in your life." As opposed to, "Can we afford food tonight?" Sometimes I'm just shocked at what becomes concerning in these kind of communities.

  Carrie Brownstein

  Mean, Thinking, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The enemy of any artistic statement is to create something that no one cares about, in the sense they have no opinion either way.

  Carrie Brownstein

  Enemy, Care, Opinion

  Source: www.avclub.com

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