Petra Haden Quotes

• I remember watching Looney Tunes cartoons and having the music stuck in my head.

  Petra Haden

  Cartoon, Tunes, Remember

  "Petra Haden Covers Classic Film Scores With A Single Voice". "Weekend Edition" with Scott Simon, www.kcur.org. January 26, 2013.

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• I like things that start depressing and dark and end up romantic, and thats what I really loved about King Kong.

  Petra Haden

  Depressing, Kings, Dark

  "Petra Haden picks her favorite cinematic scores of all time" by Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. January 22, 2013.

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• I always related my favorite music to the movies.

  Petra Haden

  My Favorite, Favorite Music, Related

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• The first song I wrote was "Look Both Ways Before You Cross" from Imaginaryland. I started the song by singing a bass line, "hoo hoo hoo hoo."

  Petra Haden

  Song, Singing, Looks

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• The Conversation was a movie I saw probably for the first time in the early 2000s. I immediately loved the piano and just how simple it is.

  Petra Haden

  Simple, Piano, Saws

  "Petra Haden picks her favorite cinematic scores of all time" by Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. January 22, 2013.

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• Harmony has always come very natural to us because we started singing harmony at an early age. We heard a lot of different music growing up.

  Petra Haden

  Growing Up, Singing, Age

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• I played violin from when I was about eight to thirteen, so I could read a little bit, but if you put a piece of music in front of me now, I would probably know the notes, but not the timing, how they're supposed to be played, and I just don't know how to read chords. If I'd stuck with it, I'd probably have more jobs.

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  Jobs, Eight, Pieces

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• It's my favorite movie score and because I had such a crush on Christopher Reeve. The music made me love him even more. You know when you hear music in a movie and it makes you fall in love with the characters? That's what happened.

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  Crush, Falling In Love, Character

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• I put out Imaginaryland, I heard a lot of, "Oh she's copying Laurie Anderson," and I was like, wait... but I don't know her music! Maybe - didn't she have a song called "Superman"?

  Petra Haden

  Song, Waiting, Copying

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• Everyone knows about The Who, but I didn't. I knew the popular songs like "I Can See For Miles." So that was the first song I worked on because it was the catchiest and easiest.

  Petra Haden

  Song, Firsts, Miles

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• People want to hear clean sounds; they don't want to hear coughing in the background, pages turning.

  Petra Haden

  Pages Turning, People, Sound

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• My grandparents on my mom's side played in a mandolin orchestra. So when I hear mandolins, I automatically think of them.

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  Mom, Thinking, Grandparent

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• I've already done two cover albums. I don't know, maybe it wouldn't be a good idea to do another, but I just did the Led Zeppelin song for fun, and I thought I could do it kind of quick since songs that I love a lot I can do fast.

  Petra Haden

  Song, Fun, Ideas

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• Our dad played us a lot of old country songs by The Carter Family and he would sing along to it. I loved listening to him sing.

  Petra Haden

  Country, Song, Dad

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• I didn't know who Meredith Monk was, and I knew about Laurie Anderson but I didn't know her music that well.

  Petra Haden

  Monk, Wells, Knows

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• My forte is playing along and singing along to music I love. I mean, who knows, maybe I could develop that knack or develop that ability to write, and I do actually co-write with people and friends, which is fun, too, because then I don't have to worry about writing lyrics, because for me writing lyrics is impossible.

  Petra Haden

  Fun, Writing, Mean

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• You have to be a poet to know how to write a song with lyrics.

  Petra Haden

  Song, Writing, Poet

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• I just recorded in studios, you know, people pressed the buttons for me. So I just started recording the bass lines and guitar parts with my voice, covering classical pieces, or just making up melodies so I could learn how to use it.

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  Guitar, Voice, People

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• Eventually I had so many little melodies and ideas that, you know, that they were all songs to me and I threw in a few cover songs like Enya's "Watermark," Bach, and my dad's song, "Song for the Whales."

  Petra Haden

  Song, Dad, Whales

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• I love the Bach Prelude No. 2 in C Minor and had that stuck in my head: why don't I put this on Imaginaryland? So I brought it to my friend Tom Grimley who recorded That Dog's first record. I played him all my a cappella pieces, and he said, "P, you should really make a record, it would be great! You can record it at my studio and I'll put it out!"

  Petra Haden

  Dog, Would Be, Pieces

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• I never punched in anything when I recorded Imaginaryland. Where the title came from is a whole other story.

  Petra Haden

  Titles, Stories, Whole

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• When we were on breaks from recording and touring, I was kind of moping around, like not knowing what to do. It was hard to adjust back to normal life after being so busy.

  Petra Haden

  Knowing, Normal, Kind

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• I thought about what I wanted to do besides playing violin and singing backup in a band. Don't get me wrong, playing and singing in That Dog was really fun, but I wanted to work on other musical projects and sing more. So I started a vocal project, i.e. Imaginaryland.

  Petra Haden

  Dog, Fun, Musical

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• I didn't know how write a song, (verse, chorus, verse, chorus, bridge, chorus, bridge, verse), etc., and I didn't know how to write lyrics, so that's when I thought, well, I don't have to write a song with all those verses and choruses or lyrics. I can just sing everything the way I want to. So I sang all the instruments with my voice and just went with it.

  Petra Haden

  Song, Writing, Bridges

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• People are born with the knack to write poems and songs. I'm not a poet at all.

  Petra Haden

  Song, Writing, People

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