Caroline Polachek Quotes

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Caroline Polachek

Profession : Musician

Birth : June 20, 1985

My mom wasn't thrilled about me being in a band, because she very correctly said she couldn't see any sort of stability in it.

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We are always in a state of flux, and taking risks is important.

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My parents got divorced when I was really young and I was a very hyperactive kid, so both parents independently would play Enya at the house to calm me down and soothe me as a kid.

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I would love to live in Japan again, but would need to really commit to learning the language before doing it. Both my parents speak Japanese fluently, so I suppose it would feel like a tradition.

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Young people have realised that an artist is in charge of what they're doing - this crazy cynicism that artists were puppets has disappeared.

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But I studied art in Belgium from the age of 17 to 18, and I learned French when I was there. Very reluctantly so. I didn't do a very good job. For the first six months I was very depressed and couldn't speak to anyone, and then it kinda hits you.

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If you're walking through the Union Square subway station - New Yorkers know it's obnoxious and crowded, and in the summer it's too hot - there are always amazing musicians playing, and sometimes there are multiple, different musicians set up in there.

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With each project I'm always pushing for clarity.

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Growing up, I was so compelled by artists whose looks were inseparable from their music. Bjork was my hero.

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I almost gave up on 'Door' so many times. I couldn't crack it. It started out as a simple song with just a chorus-verse-chorus. I felt like it needed to transform more.

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I'm a horribly chronic 'get half way through the book and start a new one' person.

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Yes, when I come up with ideas on my own, it's almost always a melody, just as often an instrument or bassline as it is a vocal. But it is a single, linear, monophonic thing. Something you could hum or whistle.

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I guess this song isn't about anything necessarily sad, but it makes me sad just because it makes me think about how inaccessible the past is, but it's called 'Boy Child' by Scott Walker.

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I really like when the lyrics in the music have an interesting relationship between one another - where they contrast each other.

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Low' was probably the album that influenced me more than any other, because of how it combined humor and impressive, glamorous, driving energy with this totally surreal soundscape production.

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Panging is the kind of sharp pain you feel inside when you're reminded of some kind of unattended need or something that you've neglected.

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You'll see every kind of New Yorker in there. You really feel like you're in the belly of the beast when you're in Union Square.

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I used to obsessively draw. I was really good at it.

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In New York, if you spend a few hours doing nothing, you feel like the whole world passed you by.

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I like listening to ambient music, especially in very scenic places because I think it allows for the most freedom of thought.

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