Julia Kent famous quotes

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.
-- Julia Kent

#Years #People #Empowering

I can really only can record at home.
-- Julia Kent

#Home #Records #I Can

I'm always anxious in introducing sounds that don't originate with the cello.
-- Julia Kent

#Sound #Introducing #Anxious

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.
-- Julia Kent

#Trying #Different #Lasts

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.
-- Julia Kent

#Technique #Ends #Results

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

#People #Sometimes

I saw Grizzly Man; I know what can happen.
-- Julia Kent

#Men #Saws #Grizzlies

I have totally like an urbanite relationship to nature. I mean I'm not someone who hikes.
-- Julia Kent

#Mean

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

#World #Littles #Natural

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.
-- Julia Kent

#World #Natural #Feels

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.
-- Julia Kent

#Long #Digital #Long Time

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.
-- Julia Kent

#Mean #People #Sound

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

#Environment #Studios #Pristine

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.
-- Julia Kent

#People #Focus #Touring

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.
-- Julia Kent

#Home #Other Worlds #Creating

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.
-- Julia Kent

#Cities #Transition #Different

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.
-- Julia Kent

#Emotional #People #Certain

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.
-- Julia Kent

#Downtime #Touring #Enjoy

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.
-- Julia Kent

#Nice #Thinking #Different Experiences

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

#Terrible

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.
-- Julia Kent

#Noise #Rooms #Proof

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.
-- Julia Kent

#Struggle #Cities #Sound

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

#Shells #Urban #Mercy