Katie Stelmanis famous quotes

Usually the song is totally done. I'll do absolutely everything, backing vocals - everything - but in gibberish. A lot of times its based on the mumblings that I sing. Even though I sing in gibberish, it kind of makes sense.
-- Katie Stelmanis

#Song #Done #Kind

In political sense, it doesn't really matter what I do on my own, but it's so important to rally some sort of collectiveness and reignite a collective vision, and I think that's something you can do effectively through art and music, and through writing and entertainment - and just through like, pop culture. It's about spreading ideas and making people think differently, essentially.
-- Katie Stelmanis

#Art #Writing #Thinking

As a songwriter, I was really into pulling away from the melodrama and the overdramatic type of writing that I was previously always doing. I think over time my songs have become more and more restrained.
-- Katie Stelmanis

#Song #Writing #Thinking

I was listening to a lot of really early house music tracks. Like Chicago house and Detroit. And Marshall Jefferson has a track probably from 1980 - somewhere around there - that doesn't actually have any electronic instruments, no drum machines, nothing. Just a drummer and a piano player and they're playing this house music, but they're actually playing it. I really love that aesthetic and wanted to bring that into the album.
-- Katie Stelmanis

#Player #Track #House

When I was growing up, until I was 18 or 19, I was totally invested in the classical music world. I had no concept of anything else. The closest thing to a cool band I listened to was Radiohead. Radiohead were the only band I liked in high school. I was just obsessed with classical music, opera, Claude Debussy, and that kind of stuff.
-- Katie Stelmanis

#Growing Up #School #World

I think Nine Inch Nails was a really big one for me, when I was 18. They really inspired me to start making my own music.
-- Katie Stelmanis

#Thinking #Inspired

I wanted to try to make songs that worked as songs, not just as productions. People wanted me to do a solo acoustic session, they were like "Can you play song on the piano?" and I was like "Not really. It doesn't really work." I wanted to write songs that would work in a variation of instrumentation.
-- Katie Stelmanis

#Song #Writing #People

I love playing the new songs live. I hate playing a new song and then having to play an old song again, it feels really boring.
-- Katie Stelmanis

#Song #Hate #Boring

Good morning, Eeyore," said Pooh. "Good morning, Pooh Bear," said Eeyore gloomily. "If it is a good morning, which I doubt," said he. "Why, what's the matter?" "Nothing, Pooh Bear, nothing. We can't all, and some of us don't. That's all there is to it." "Can't all what?" said Pooh, rubbing his nose. "Gaiety. Song-and-dance. Here we go round the mulberry bush.

The buzz you get when you're playing a song and everyone is screaming and dancing and what have you and singing along is incredible.

The 10% between 90% done to 100% done takes most of the time, causes most of the stress, but is all of the value.

But I've been there and done that. I'm not trying to prove anything to anybody, and if somebody wants me to come, if they can afford what I ask, it's not as much as Madonna makes; not that I want what Madonna makes, but I was saying.

I come from a world where you get the film done, that's a success.

I do films that I like. I have done comedy, romance, everything, and I always like to do it differently from the previous ones.

I think I'm the kind of person who would be very difficult to employ - I'm pretty annoying, but driven.

He who fears to weep, should learn to be kind to those who weep.

What I had to say was, in general, I'm not really a fan of any one genre of any kind of film.

She was the kind of person who would rather light a candle than curse the darkness.