Courtney Barnett Quotes

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• Artists thrive off each other, and when you see other people doing cool stuff, it inspires you to do cool stuff.

  Courtney Barnett

  Artist, People, Inspire

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I think everyone's so scared of other people judging them.

  Courtney Barnett

  Thinking, People, Judging

  "Courtney Barnett on songwriting, self-confidence, and her record label". Interview with Rose Riddell, www.coupdemainmagazine.com. February 29, 2016.

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• There's lots of interesting stuff happening in the world. Lots of good and bad things, and there's interest in music still, which there always will be, which is always a good thing.

  Courtney Barnett

  Interesting, World, Stuff

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• I liked the idea of being a photographer, just that you take this one picture of this one thing that'll never happen again - it's a bit weird when you think about it.

  Courtney Barnett

  Thinking, Ideas, Photographer

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Once you write and record a song, it becomes everyone else's song.

  Courtney Barnett

  Song, Writing

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• The music, I think, is just as important as the lyrics; it portrays the emotion of the song. I play the kind of music that I want to listen to.

  Courtney Barnett

  Song, Thinking, Play

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• I think even though things are changing a bit, we still kind of tend to grow up with girls being like, 'Don't be too loud, don't be too rude, don't be too naughty,' or whatever, to act a certain way.

  Courtney Barnett

  Girl, Growing Up, Naughty

  "Courtney Barnett on songwriting, self-confidence, and her record label". Interview with Rose Riddell, www.coupdemainmagazine.com. February 29, 2016.

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• I don't know anything except being female, so I don't know the opposite of it.

  Courtney Barnett

  Opposites, Female, Knows

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• The first song I wrote was called "You" and it was a love song about somebody who didn't even exist. I remember them all because I used to always write terrible poetry. I keep all my notebooks.

  Courtney Barnett

  Notebook, Song, Writing

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I've never liked songs that are about writing, or struggling to write. Maybe it's because it's too relatable to me.

  Courtney Barnett

  Song, Struggle, Writing

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I try to write a lot and my process is kind of back and forth. I procrastinate a lot so when I do sit down to write, I'm pretty lazy at it. And it's such a frustrating thing sometimes - writing - when you don't do it all the time, you get that thing in your head that you have nothing to talk about and you can't write songs.

  Courtney Barnett

  Song, Writing, Lazy

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• It's easier to be angry. It's harder to be positive and happy, I reckon.

  Courtney Barnett

  Being Positive, Easier, Harder

  "Tired and Hungry and Alive: 36 Hours with Courtney Barnett" by Amanda Petrusich, pitchfork.com. March 16, 2015.

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• I definitely grew up on a lot of American bands. I didn't really know that there were any decent Australian bands until I was around 20.

  Courtney Barnett

  Band, Grew, Decent

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• It was cool at the rock camp - girls could just be themselves and they could be silly, they could roll around on the floor playing guitar.

  Courtney Barnett

  Girl, Silly, Rocks

  "Courtney Barnett on songwriting, self-confidence, and her record label". Interview with Rose Riddell, www.coupdemainmagazine.com. February 29, 2016.

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• I try to take notes of things that happen that I think are important or interesting or just little tidbits here and there that happen in life. And some of it's even just one line or like a saying and I just go off that.

  Courtney Barnett

  Thinking, Interesting, Important

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• I don't like to overcook songs.

  Courtney Barnett

  Song

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• "On Script" is one of my favorite songs I've ever written. I'd just been jamming on it one day, and again I was struggling with lyrics. I'm still figuring out what it's about. I've seen a couple of reviews that are like, "It's about the monotony of playing the same songs every night," because I say, "On script every night/Like a well-rehearsed stage show." It's not about that at all, but I find that funny, how people project what they think about me, or songwriters in general.

  Courtney Barnett

  Song, Couple, Struggle

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Smoke Ring for My Halo was the first album I bought of Kurt's Vile, and when I first listened to "Peeping Tomboy" I was really depressed and unemployed. But the lyrics are, "I don't want to work. I don't want to sit around all day frowning." I was like, "Ah! Yes!"

  Courtney Barnett

  Rings

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I think that a good song is catchy, and a great song is not catchy - but it has a deeper meaning.

  Courtney Barnett

  Song, Thinking, Catchy

  "Courtney Barnett on songwriting, self-confidence, and her record label". Interview with Rose Riddell, www.coupdemainmagazine.com. February 29, 2016.

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• I think that if people get my music, then they get what my message is.

  Courtney Barnett

  Thinking, People, Messages

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• If I make a wrong decision, I worry what might have been. I stress out over very insignificant things.

  Courtney Barnett

  Stress, Insignificant Things, Worry

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• An album is a thing you take time out and go work on.

  Courtney Barnett

  Albums, Take Time

  Interview with Jayson Greene, pitchfork.com. October 1, 2013.

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• I started writing songs when I started learning guitar.

  Courtney Barnett

  Song, Writing, Guitar

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Sometimes I have something stuck in my head and that directs the rhyme that I'm writing with.

  Courtney Barnett

  Writing, Sometimes, Rhyme

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I reckon that growing up, listening to so much different music, I think over time I just kind of sucked it all in and it probably comes back out through my music.

  Courtney Barnett

  Growing Up, Thinking, Listening

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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