Julien Baker Quotes

Julien Baker

Profession : Musician

Birth : September 29, 1995

I love 'Exit West' by Mohsin Hamid. It's a magical realism retelling of the refugee experience, where people find these magical doors that transport them to another country.

Julien Baker

Cameron Esposito is a musician and podcaster from the States and she's hilarious.

Julien Baker

We always have a great time touring Germany, but one of my favourite museums in the world is Museum Ludwig, an incredible contemporary art museum in Cologne. I could spend all day in it.

Julien Baker

I like it when I go to a city and it puts its personality out there to be readily experienced.

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The goal of embodying Christian ethics - if you want to call yourself a Christian - is being patient and loving with your neighbor.

Julien Baker

The more blessings or resources you have at your disposal, the more I become aware of... how should I steward this? It's supposed to be an investment that I can turn around and create art that gives something to other people. Ugh, that sounds like the most Miss America answer of all time.

Julien Baker

The more we can personalise, the more the market can fragment, because of all the availability that streaming presents. Things become old sooner. That's terrifying.

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It used to be you would need a couple grand to make a record at a studio. Now, you can do it on freaking GarageBand.

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There are a bunch of talented bands out there... So yeah, I often think, 'Why aren't these people onstage and why do I have a microphone?'

Julien Baker

I played with a band, and the lead singer would always introduce me as 'the 13-year-old lead guitarist.' I didn't want to be a novelty, like 'Oh, she has three arms! Check her out.' But I've learned to accept it as more of a compliment.

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I was a very emotional teenager. But I wish that I could tell myself that I matter more than I think. Things are a bigger deal than I think they are, but they're also not as big a deal as I think they are. My mistakes are not the end of the world.

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I don't think that you can just walk through life without all of your experiences informing your perspective on the world.

Julien Baker

It's not like a choice to have an identity politics discussion when you're living it all the time. And if it's uncomfortable, well then maybe the way that we need to deal with that is by letting things be uncomfortable.

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I do not want to make art and then try to dictate how people use it, or how people interact with it.

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I'm not losing the wonder in playing music.

Julien Baker

When I first started playing guitar, I would sit in my room for hours and learn scales.

Julien Baker

With my first high school band ever, we would have these breaks in the song for idiotic solos, solos that were un-tasteful and would be shredding, but I needed to put them in there, and I realize now it's because we were playing shows with a whole bunch of bands that were all male.

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I'm Type A to a fault.

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I can make a record with six-part string arrangements and the best musicians in the world and have it be not genuine. I'd rather make a genuine record that I truly stand behind and have it fall where it may.

Julien Baker

There are bands who write of emotions that are very heartbreaking, touching, or relatable, but they'll be like concept records, they're about fictional characters.

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