Phoebe Bridgers Quotes

Phoebe Bridgers

Profession : Musician

Birth : August 17, 1994

I was actually with Conor Oberst on tour, and we were walking down the street getting a coffee. I walked into a random hipster-y coffee shop and I heard my own song, and I was so stoked.

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People are realising that vulnerability isn't a weakness, and the rise of mental health-related humour is making vulnerability feel like a strength.

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I don't want to get all self-help on everyone. But I definitely think there was a period in my life where I thought I would feel the same way, forever. And every day felt like 'Groundhog Day,' where I was super, super depressed.

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I love women in suits.

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Sometimes I'm so exhausted and I don't really want to play.

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Boygenius' was the first time I produced without a producer-producer in the room. It's been crazy.

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I wanted to talk about how stupid music is. I wanted to talk about how awesome music is, and how depressing it is, and why we all make music if it doesn't last forever.

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I played at Room 5 a lot, which is probably the smallest capacity venue in Los Angeles. I begged my friends to come see me.

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I do the least 'working on myself' in our band.

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A lot of my close friends are musicians and are consumed by the idea of death; their heads are like a torture chamber. I'm not like that - I don't have death anxiety and I don't think about it all the time.

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Doing stuff on my own terms and making a record without being signed to a label - I credit that all to my commercial work.

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Often people have to wake me up from a nap to tell me to go on stage.

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I think the longform email is exhilarating and exhausting at the same time.

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When I first picked up an instrument, nothing really happened. I played piano when I was a little kid. I hated it so much, I actually don't play piano now.

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My form of rebellion was starting to play guitar. I was 13. The first song I played was 'Lovesick Blues' by Hank Williams.

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The Replacements don't sound like The Replacements half the time!

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I think the main thing which boygenius and I talk about ad nauseum, is that I feel like I just apologise for myself less.

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Twitter is an extension of every dumb thought I have, firing it off - Instagram is a little more methodical.

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Joshua Kirk, the YouTube kid with the glasses who looks directly into the camera - I really love his album reviews. He's been doing it for years.

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I feel like 'Pitchfork' has a style, and you always know what they're gonna say and what they're gonna pick apart.

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