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Arca
Venezuelan Musician
Born: Oct 14, 1989
Like Me Music Think Try You
Related authors: Bob Dylan Bob Marley Dolly Parton Frank Sinatra Juice Wrld Kanye West Lil Peep YoungBoy Never Broke Again
'Xen,' to me, was a necessary excursion inward, into myself. 'Mutant' is a response to it and is more extroverted. Arca
Myself Me Extroverted Response Mutant More Excursion Inward Necessary
I want to be interested in the music I make until I die. That's more important to me than the size of my audience. Arca
Music Me Important More Until Make Audience Than Die Size Want Interested
It's not about living my life as a boy or a girl - but I'm also not trans - it's just that one day, you wake up feeling masculine, and one day, you wake up feeling feminine. The flickering in between those two states is what's most fertile for me. Arca
Life Day Me You Wake Up Girl My Life Feeling Living States Those One Day About Masculine Between Most Also Boy Feminine Wake Fertile Up Just In-Between Flickering Two
Speaking two languages fluently makes each language not so important. Arca
Language Important Fluently Makes Languages Speaking Each Two
That's been a huge recurring thing in growing up - allowing two things to exist in the same space even though, instinctively, they might not be designated to. Arca
Space Though Allowing Recurring Instinctively Been Exist Huge Up Same Might Even Growing Growing Up Thing Things Two
When I sit down to make music, I try to enter a flow; I always open a blank session and just make something that I feel like making. Only after a piece of music is done does my frontal cortex allow me to organize what might be trying to come out of my subconscious. Arca
Music Me Try Subconscious Sit Down Enter Out Something Only Blank Allow Open Feel Come Like Piece Make Does Always Making Trying Done Just After Might Organize Flow Session
Arthur Russell is very important to me on many levels, and when I read Tim Lawrence's biography on him, 'Hold on to Your Dreams,' one of the things I took away was: first thought, best thought. I live by that when I make my own music. Arca
Music Dreams Best Me Thought First Important Own Live Took One Of The Things Russell Lawrence My Own Make Him Read Tim Very Arthur Hold Your Your Dreams Many Many Levels Away Things Biography Levels
I've never written a happy love song. Arca
Love Happy Song Never Written
I exist in agreement with all the weird chaos, destruction, and agony that is undoubtedly part of the texture of being alive. Arca
Destruction Chaos Alive Part Weird Exist Undoubtedly Texture Being Agony Agreement
Being knee-deep in sadness or suffering and refusing to look down - to me, that represents something more powerful than someone who's never gone through difficulty. Arca
Me Suffering Sadness Gone Down Difficulty Someone Something More Through Never Powerful Look Than Represents Being Refusing
I'm an all-or-nothing person. Arca
Person
I never judge my song titles; I just spit them out. Arca
Song Judge Out Spit Never Just Titles Them
I've learned to use things like softness and vulnerability as weapons against the things you feel ashamed of in yourself. Arca
You Yourself Softness Weapons Feel Like Learned Vulnerability Against Ashamed Use Things
It's impossible to exorcise the darkness out of you. We can pretend it's not there until something bursts. Arca
You Darkness Impossible Out Pretend Something Until Bursts
Compulsion is a behaviour that short-circuits you out of feeling ashamed, and then you feel triple-ashamed afterwards. Arca
You Feeling Out Compulsion Feel Behaviour Afterwards Ashamed Then
A mother isn't someone who does it on purpose; mothers are who they are, and just by existing, they affect the way other people negotiate with the environment and with themselves. Arca
People Mother Other Way Negotiate Someone Purpose Environment Does Mothers Affect Existing Just Themselves Who
Theatricality - that's where you get catharsis. The Greeks went to see drama because they felt like this wasn't happening to them. Arca
You Drama See Like Catharsis Because Felt Greeks Get Where Happening Them
When I was young, I put on performances for my family and my parents where I would dance like a woman, singing a really exaggerated woman's vocal in front of my whole family. Arca
Family Woman Dance Parents Singing Young Would Exaggerated Vocal Put Performance Like Front Where Really Whole
Making music is an inward and outward gesture at once. I make it because I'm communing with a side of myself that might help me look people in the eye. But at the same time, I'm reaching out, in a way. Arca
Music Time Myself Me People Gesture Side Once Way Eye Out Outward Look Reaching Inward Make Because Making Same Same Time Might Help
I've learned a lot from every musical collaboration I've ever had, but there's something about my relationship with Bjork that is special to me. Arca
Me Relationship Every Collaboration Musical About Something Had Learned Lot Special Ever
Making music can get so emotional that, if you don't set limits for yourself, it can push you or the person that you're making music with to a breaking point. Arca
Music You Yourself Point Emotional Push Making Limits Person Get Breaking Set
It's a really deep and layered psychological situation - making music with someone - if they're trying to make something real and personal. It's almost like dating: you allow yourself to be consumed by the other - not in a bad way, but in a way that happens in nature. Arca
Music Nature You Yourself Situation Other Way Bad Someone Something Dating Layered Consumed Allow Bad Way Almost Like Make Making Real Trying Personal Psychological Happens Really Deep
The first CD I bought was Brandy and Monica's 'The Boy Is Mine.' Arca
First Mine Bought Boy Brandy Monica
I knew that I would have to leave Venezuela in order to figure out who I was. Arca
Out Would Knew Venezuela Leave Order Figure Who
Arca was a project born immediately after I came out of the closet in New York. Arca
Project Immediately Out Born New Came York Closet New York After
When you're uncomfortable, that's when you learn something new about yourself. Arca
You Yourself About Something Something New Uncomfortable New Learn
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