QUOTES by Julia Holter
Find most favourite and famour Authors from A.A Milne to Zoe Kravitz.
It's not leftovers that are wasteful, but those who either don't know what to do with them or can't be bothered.
Quote by -Julia Holter
The mark of a mature, psychologically healthy mind is indeed the ability to live with uncertainty and ambiguity, but only as much as there really is. Uncertainty is no virtue when the facts are clear, and ambiguity is mere obfuscation when more precise terms are applicable.
Quote by -Julia Holter
Life is full of what-ifs, many of which could easily have been realities, had just a few things been different.
Quote by -Julia Holter
Accepting that the world is full of uncertainty and ambiguity does not and should not stop people from being pretty sure about a lot of things.
Quote by -Julia Holter
I like working with students a lot and watching some of the amazing stuff they put together.
Quote by -Julia Holter
For me, the poetic decisions tend to be calculated, and the musical decisions inspired by the poetic decisions are free.
Quote by -Julia Holter
When I'm depressed is when I'm not interested in writing anything, whereas some people, I think, are spurred to creativity through their personal experiences and through depression. And for me, it's a very low place, and it's not fruitful.
Quote by -Julia Holter
I don't fit into a group very well socially. And that might be reflected in my music.
Quote by -Julia Holter
I don't write thinking directly about what I'm feeling, usually. I just let myself write whatever comes out without it necessarily being directly a translation of what I'm aware that I'm feeling, you know?
Quote by -Julia Holter
Saying that something is accessible gives it this implication that people need something, and thinking that we know what people need or want is really unpleasant. I don't like to think that way, like, predicting what it is that the people want.
Quote by -Julia Holter
I really write at home on my own, and the demos themselves are very similar to the final recordings in a lots of ways.
Quote by -Julia Holter
The Beatles, even Radiohead, all of my favorite stuff I'd play on the piano. But it was all very secret - for me, for fun. I wasn't going to record myself playing those songs, and it never occurred to me to write a song of my own.
Quote by -Julia Holter
I don't think all music that is considered 'avant-garde' is bad, but it's definitely elitist. I hope my music is not that.
Quote by -Julia Holter
I don't consider myself supremely talented, but I really like to try things and sift through it and see what mess I made.
Quote by -Julia Holter
I don't know how well I work in traditions. I don't know if it's just the way I listened to music growing up and never having my foot in one particular world, and just wanting to do my own thing.
Quote by -Julia Holter
I try to not think too much about how people are receiving my music. And I'm not really famous enough that it's a problem.
Quote by -Julia Holter
The meaning of the words in my songs are very important to me. But what's most important to me is that the music works.
Quote by -Julia Holter
'Betsy' is one of my favorites because it is the one to which I've imposed the least clear narrative. To me, it's so much more about the feeling - desperation - than any kind of story at all. There's very little imagery or character development; it's just about a deep and desperate search for something.
Quote by -Julia Holter
I don't often meet with strangers and feel okay about collaborating with them.
Quote by -Julia Holter
I thought I was gonna get a doctorate in composition or be a composer and be at a university for the rest of my life, mostly because my parents are academics, and that was the logical thing to do.
Quote by -Julia Holter
I really like being home. I like being comfortable, and I'm not a very dramatic person.
Quote by -Julia Holter
I don't ever like to see paparazzi much, but I have seen them, and I guess anyone who's seen them knows how scary they are.
Quote by -Julia Holter
When you make music on your own for so long, you get used to just doing whatever you want.
Quote by -Julia Holter
I listen to the timbre of the music, and I fit my voice to blend with that timbre.
Quote by -Julia Holter
I do develop characters for songs, and I think of everything as storytelling, in a way. But I don't plan out what they're going to sound like. I just sing over what I've done.
Quote by -Julia Holter
I was in school for four years writing music to please my teachers. That was not music I liked. And when I make music that isn't for something I want to make, and it's to please other people, it's - the outcome is really bad.
Quote by -Julia Holter
There's a lot psychologically going on in boxing... I think I relate to some of it. I have a respect for it. It's like performing, but it's also this crazy, self-destructive thing.
Quote by -Julia Holter
I really love working with Ramona from Nite Jewel. We've kind of grown up together.
Quote by -Julia Holter
I take music very seriously, but it's important to me that my music is - I don't know if 'intuitive' is the word, but there's a really important element of something kind of mysterious. It's not academic or esoteric.
Quote by -Julia Holter
To me, the process of art is very much a process of translation, of borrowing.
Quote by -Julia Holter
I started writing music as a composer in school, in the classical tradition.
Quote by -Julia Holter
In high school, I would secretly play Joni Mitchell songs all the time. That's when I started singing and playing at the same time, and I got really into doing that.
Quote by -Julia Holter
I usually like to hide my vocals behind the music. I don't like to hide them consciously, but I have a tendency to prefer the vocal at the same level as everything else and put lots of reverb on it.
Quote by -Julia Holter
It's hard for me to get shows in the U.S. It's that simple. I don't know what that means. I think it means there's not as much support here for my music?
Quote by -Julia Holter
Most records are usually not united by one specific story, but that seems to be something that I like and that I find easy to do.
Quote by -Julia Holter
I'm not an unhappy person - I'm just an anxious person. It runs in the family.
Quote by -Julia Holter