57 Carrie Brownstein Quotes for You to Enjoy

Carrie Brownstein

American Musician

Born: Sep 27, 1974

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I think that half of us feel fraudulent in our lives anyway. There's that strange disconnect of not really knowing what we're doing sometimes, or why it matters. It's our existential crisis. Carrie Brownstein

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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

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In the high-stakes and elitist world of music collecting and fandom, we operate from an ab ovo perspective. The seed, the first incarnation - that is the most pure, the most lauded. Minutemen trumps Firehose, Throwing Muses beats Belly, Joy Division over New Order, Operation Ivy ruled Rancid, Undertones instead of That Petrol Emotion. Carrie Brownstein

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The game Rock Band has been haunting me like a bad ring tone. It gets stuck in my head and momentarily effaces all that I love about music. Carrie Brownstein

Love Music Me Game Band Has-Been Bad Ring About Haunting Stuck Head Like Rock Rock Band Been Gets Momentarily Tone

Grief is sort of the allowance of feeling. Carrie Brownstein

Grief Feeling Allowance Sort

When real is gone, then there is no longer a litmus test for that which deviates from it. It's all real because it's all 'real.' Carrie Brownstein

Gone Longer Because Real Test Which Litmus Litmus Test Then

I think alone time is good to know how to be alone with your own thoughts. I think it just helps you kind of be a better, more grounded person. Carrie Brownstein

Alone Time Good Thoughts You Better Own Think Kind More Know How Person Just Your Grounded Helps

Writing isn't necessarily about what one knows but what one wants to know. Carrie Brownstein

Writing About Know Knows Wants Necessarily

With Rock Band, you can play along to Black Sabbath or Nirvana and possibly find new ways of appreciating their artistry by being allowed to perform parallel to it. Rock Band puts you inside the guts of a song. Carrie Brownstein

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After Sleater-Kinney broke up in 2006 I had very little desire to play music. It took well over three years before picking up a guitar meant anything to me other than an exercise. Carrie Brownstein

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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

Over the years, music put a weapon in my hand and words in my mouth, it backed me up and shielded me, it shook me and scared me and showed me the way; music opened me up to living and being and feeling. Carrie Brownstein

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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

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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

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

Music People Never Understood Up Artifice Who Play

I wrote so much about fandom and participation for NPR that I eventually realized my most fertile way of participating in music is to actually play it, at least in a way that made the most sense to me. Carrie Brownstein

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I was always drawn to performing. I took improv and acting classes during the summers and was involved in middle and high school plays. But when I discovered indie and punk music in high school, those things sort of took over. Carrie Brownstein

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I love my friends, but I feel pretty autonomous. Carrie Brownstein

Love Pretty Feel Friends Autonomous

So many things can be filtered through fandom - joy, compassion, love. Carrie Brownstein

Love Joy Compassion Filtered Through Many Things

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