Arca Quotes

Arca

Profession : Musician

Birth : October 14, 1989

Arca means 'box' or 'wooden' in very old Spanish. It's a ceremonial container where you store jewelry or valuables, an empty space that can become pregnant with whatever music or meaning I give to it.

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I've come to the conclusion that the best way for me to grow is in a very self-forgiving way: to take a risk and, in response to how a record pans out, take a risk in the opposite charge.

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If you try and kind of focus on hope, but you know what it's like to be in the dark, then hope is more meaningful.

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When I was making 'Xen,' I was surprised at how introverted some of the songs were. I wasn't deliberately trying to go quieter, but I had to embrace it.

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It's very human to try to put things into boxes, and it's hard for us to reconcile with grey areas, and yet somehow, that's the area I find the most poetic, the juiciest.

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With 'Lonely Thug,' I constructed a fantasy character who was very masculine and strong and almost threatening, but his demeanor belied some complication.

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The first CD I bought was Brandy and Monica's 'The Boy Is Mine.'

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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.

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There's something in glitchy music that I like to get lost in.

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Compulsion is a behaviour that short-circuits you out of feeling ashamed, and then you feel triple-ashamed afterwards.

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We try and banish whole inner realms. Sometimes, you have to touch the thing inside you're most afraid of and see what happens when you touch it rather than look away from it all the time.

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As a kid, I spent a lot of my mental energy hiding who I was and attempting to fit in.

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I like contradictions, and I like exceptions. I don't like rules and dogma.

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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.

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I kind of roll my eyes when people say they make music for themselves or they make art just for themselves, because, maybe in their head, what that means is that they're making it for someone who they don't think is real. Their audience isn't real. But it's still a communicative act. It's still an outward manifestation of longing.

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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.

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'Xen,' to me, was a necessary excursion inward, into myself. 'Mutant' is a response to it and is more extroverted.

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With song titles, I try to keep a healthy sense of humor while saying something at the same time.

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When I work with other people, I have to try to make their vision happen. With my own, I don't think about it. The music has its own kind of agency.

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If I gravitate toward someone, I bridge the gap between us somehow, and I accidentally maybe start seeing the world through their eyes.

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