Julia Kent Quotes

#1. I'm really not working in a environment that's sonically pristine. It's not a conventional studio, obviously; it's a bit ramshackle.

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#2. sides yellowed by too many unfiltered Camels. The whole place had the feel of a neighborhood hangout for people too stupid to realize they were drinking away an enormous percentage of their

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#3. Anger seeped in, like an old friend who was a lousy house guest, but you forget every time he leaves how much you wish him gone, and welcome him heartily when he reappears. Anger was so much easier than hurt, or heartache, or regret, so anger it was. Welcome my old friend.

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#4. I find that I'm always struggling with the noise of the city. When I get a good take, there will be a horn or a siren or something. So it makes me very conscious of outside sounds, which in a way maybe led me to incorporate the field recordings.

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#5. Last time I was recording, I was trying to loop on the computer, but it's really difficult because it's really different from looping on hardware.

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#6. You snitch!" It's 6:45p.m. and I am being held hostage by terrorist extremists with a list of demands that make Al-Qaeda look like preschoolers playing pirate.

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#7. Sometimes when I'm traveling, I feel a little bit dislocated, especially the transitions you make when you're traveling - you go to a different city every day.

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#8. Andrew's kissing Amanda again, her back pinned against the door frame, his hands working through a geometry problem where the goal is to find the point of intersection where two legs bisect. People would like math so much more if it involved real life like that.

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#9. What else do you do with a life you didn't choose and can't get out of? You adapt and take whatever crumbs you can find so you don't let your soul or body starve.

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#10. Doing something you hate because you think you'll gain acceptance from other people is what I call "questionable morals.

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#11. She was my compass. I was her legend. We were the rivers and the lakes, the highways and the back roads, the mountains and the borders. I finally knew where I was. Charlotte was my You Are Here point on the map of life.

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#12. I feel like we as human beings are trampling all over the natural world, but at the same time, we are totally in its power.

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#13. I think it's really different for me whether I'm touring as part of a larger group or if I'm touring on my own. It's a completely different experience, because when I tour on my own, it's really just me by myself, and I make nice relationships with people.

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#14. It's a Monday morning, 9:13 a.m. on the dot, and the counter person, Mark J., takes exactly seventeen seconds to acknowledge my presence. He then offers to

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#15. It's just a spare room in my apartment. It's very cluttered and not particularly aesthetically inspiring, and it's very un-noise-proof.

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#16. Yep. They're real. You really can sign on as a mystery

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#17. I have totally like an urbanite relationship to nature. I mean I'm not someone who hikes.

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#18. I don't need everything to be right." The air crackled with energy, sparks flying between us. "I need you to be real.

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#19. I don't really understand the natural world, I admire it and am a little bit afraid of its power.

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#20. Her mouth - ah, that lush, sweet mouth - was a garden, and I was on my back, face tipped in adoration to the sun for giving me such brilliance, delightful aromas, and the indescribable lightness of being with her.

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#21. I feel like these sounds are the ultimate kind of free sounds, the ultimate public domain sounds. And I feel like people put them in completely different contexts, and they mean something different to everybody.

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#22. Mike suppressed an urge to shove Dylan. Unfortunately, Dylan had the impulse control of Bill Clinton in a room full of interns and couldn't hold back his nudge.

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#23. People who think animals have expressionless faces are like people who can ignore an open package of Oreos. Not quite human.

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#24. I feel as though I can get an end result that works for me, but as far as recording techniques, I don't feel that confident in my abilities.

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#25. Josh is the company tech expert, which means we all think he's a little bit shaman, a little bit magician, and mostly a nerd.

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#26. Reading about other peoples' foibles and mistakes was so much easier than living through her own.

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#27. Someone this amazing was about to get inundated by messages from needy weirdos. And he needed to be the first.

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#28. I can really only can record at home.

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#29. Did I mention this is my ninth store of the day? I started at 5:30 a.m. I'm very, very questioned and cinnamoned

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#30. You can love someone even when they cause you the greatest pain of your life. Even when they intentionally hurt you every second, every hour, every day with every fiber of their being.

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#31. I love traveling and I love seeing new places and meeting new people, but at the same time, it takes a certain amount of emotional strength to gel with that, at least for me.

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#32. As soon as we get out of our urban shell, we're still at the mercy of nature as individuals.

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#33. dazzled by the sheer essence of the whole,

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#34. I'm really terrible at sort of figuring out the thing that's going to make the money, I guess.

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#35. Learning how to record has been super empowering for me, because I spent so many years going into the studio and watching other people do it. I guess a lot of musicians have gone through this because now recording is really available for everybody.

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#36. sort. That gave me one hour and eighteen minutes to

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#37. Just because an institution gives you authority doesn't mean you gain any respect - not one ounce - from the people you're supposed to manage.

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#38. If you're too judgmental, you shut your self off to so much richness in the world.

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#39. If you define yourself by what you're running away from, then how do you know when you've arrived at where you're going to?

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#40. When you're touring, it's somehow hard to focus on other things. I know other people can do it, but I really can't.

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#41. If she's not giving you shit, she doesn't think you're worth her time,

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#42. I've been making the recordings for a long time, and I have tons and tons of them. I'm like a digital hoarder or something - everything is on like hard drives and whatever.

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#43. Being an angry crier sucked.

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#44. If I had echolocation I could map out the terrain of ab muscles through sheer force of will. His cut body is meant to be relief mapped the way Braille is meant to be read. With my fingertips.

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#45. I find when I'm touring or when I'm traveling, I just enter this other world kind of. It's much easier for me to be creative and be unselfconscious about creating when I'm home.

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#46. I saw Grizzly Man; I know what can happen.

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#47. I'm very, very questioned and cinnamoned out.

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#48. One bad decision is like building a long line of dominoes and then sneezing and not turning your head

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#49. I'm always anxious in introducing sounds that don't originate with the cello.

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#50. People tend to eat through the cello. They tend to take out the things that make it beautifully cello-y sometimes.

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#51. When I look at you I can see my future roll out in one long laugh, like a red carpet of fun and intelligence and hope. A ripple of joy that stretches into the horizon until it disappears. Not because it ceases to exist, but because it's infinite.

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#52. I enjoy touring and traveling because that's the time when I get to read, and listen to music. You have all that downtime, which is great for that.

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#53. Delusion has a way of becoming part of life when you least expect it, or maybe when you most need it.

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