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I just started studying opera - very, very much as hobby - and for some reason I've been gravitating toward French composers, like a lot of Debussy and Faure. I find it a really sinuous and spooky language to sing in.
- Caroline Polachek
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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.
- Caroline Polachek
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#Live
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A lot of the music comes out of that conflict of wanting this other thing and feeling guilty about wanting it, and then it guiding me somewhere despite my kicking and screaming.
- Caroline Polachek
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I kind of think that's the best way to operate; even when I'm in sessions writing with other artists, I'm always pulling from the kind of emotions that are the most raw in my own life and offering them up in the studio.
- Caroline Polachek
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I think as I get older, I'm just going to start making smooth, new age music - no joke.
- Caroline Polachek
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I think there was a real lane built for indie bands during the time when Chairlift came up.
- Caroline Polachek
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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.
- Caroline Polachek
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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.
- Caroline Polachek
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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.
- Caroline Polachek
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#Me
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If you want to know what the DJ is playing, just ask. You don't have the right to stick your head in front of my screen as if you're an expert leaning over the shoulder of the apprentice.
- Caroline Polachek
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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.
- Caroline Polachek
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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.
- Caroline Polachek
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#Every
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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.
- Caroline Polachek
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Being a musician, there aren't that many ways for me to consciously use a more strategy, math-based part of my brain.
- Caroline Polachek
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#Me
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My stepfather is a baron. He has a castle in Belgium that's been in his family for hundreds and hundreds of years. It's not fancy; it's really sort of brimstone and dark. It's got a moat and a drawbridge.
- Caroline Polachek
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#He
I've definitely been in that situation many times - staying in a relationship longer than I should. I think there's so much of your identity that comes from a relationship.
- Caroline Polachek
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#Relationship
#Situation
#Your
Music feels so environmental to me, especially the process of working with synths or mixing. I started thinking about music as a psychological landscape as well. It's a landscape of the mind.
- Caroline Polachek
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