Caroline Shaw Quotes

#1. I guess I'd like people to be able to forget a lot of things and just enjoy the beauty of harmony and melody for a moment.

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#2. Living in New York City, you have to keep trying to do a lot of things.

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#3. I was curious about experimenting with different colors - kind of like having an expanded orchestra. Suddenly, instead of just writing for strings, you can add bassoon and oboe and brass. I like these extreme differences in sounds right next to each other.

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#4. 'Partita' is a simple piece. Born of a love of surface and structure, of the human voice, of dancing and tired ligaments, of music, and of our basic desire to draw a line from one point to another.

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#5. I don't really call myself a composer.

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#6. I've been gearing up for this future of writing a lot of new music by digging into my favorite old stuff, and twisting it around and highlighting the things I really love.

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#7. I could read music and sing all the right notes at the right time. And over time, I literally found my voice, found a way to make sound.

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#8. Gabrielle opened the fridge, which was held shut with a strip of gaff tape, and pulled out sliced white bread, margarine and plastic cheese. It was the only time Lenny had seen ants running out of a fridge.

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#9. I've spent a lot of time playing Bach partitas. One of my first jobs was to play for ballet and modern classes, so the music in 'Partita' is kind of like choreography for me.

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#10. It was sort of an experiment to try to leave the violin. Can I be a real person without this thing? It was a big part of my identity.

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#11. Be free, and live life fully.

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#12. Every day, you have to make three hours of music, just randomly improvising, and that's a great way to weed stuff out.

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#13. I grew up listening to - it's kind of embarrassing - all classical music.

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#14. I've been singing with Roomful of Teeth since the beginning in 2009, and it's a really mind-blowingly wonderful vocal ensemble. Very brave and very creative, and they're some of my closest friends.

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#15. I played a lot of Bach's partitas and sonatas; I like the way that Bach was abstracting already from these dance forms.

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