Arca Quotes

Arca

Profession : Musician

Birth : October 14, 1989

I think for the longest time I used to be kind of embarrassed that if I hung out with someone that had a really, really strong personality, I would end up accidentally catching myself talking like them.

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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.

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Once you share what you're communicating with your audience, then you can make more sense of it in a subconscious way.

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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.

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Hip-hop, at its best, is disruptive.

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Internally, we have so many different parts, both positive and negative. And if you force them together, a spark comes out.

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I have a very healthy dose of scepticism towards what identity is and what personas are, maybe because of my life journey. Identity is something so malleable.

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I want to make music until I die.

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I knew that I would have to leave Venezuela in order to figure out who I was.

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I think there's a certain poetry to having your body reflect what you feel inside of you. Perhaps you have a feeling that's so pure, or overwhelming inside of you that your body disfigures to it - contortions match your confusion.

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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.

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I've never written a happy love song.

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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.

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I feel like every record I've ever made, on some level, is urgent.

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I feel like, a lot of times, you make music, and you don't really understand why until with hindsight.

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Theatricality - that's where you get catharsis. The Greeks went to see drama because they felt like this wasn't happening to them.

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I never judge my song titles; I just spit them out.

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Speaking two languages fluently makes each language not so important.

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