Quotes by Adrianne Lenker - Page 1

I don't really think of Minnesota when I think of home.
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Minnesota
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When I first started out in the band, I had so many walls up.
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Walls
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We lived in 14 different houses until I was 8, renting here and there.
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Houses
Renting
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Ingydar was the name of my great-aunt Becky's horse, who passed away when I was a kid.
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Horse
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My parents divorced when I was 12, and leading up to that it was... not without turbulence.
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Divorced
Turbulence
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I hadn't gone to high school. I left Minnesota, I left home, I was on my own. I was seventeen.
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Minnesota
Seventeen
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When an audience takes to a song and it becomes older, in a way it changes it entirely. And then the journey just begins.
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Begins
Entirely
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It's kind've a cliche but I like when it's raining. I like the feeling of staying in and not being told I should be outside.
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Cliche
Staying
Feeling
Outside
Raining
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We were still quite religious until I was about eight or nine. Then I watched my parents take a dramatic turn and discard all religion.
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Dramatic
Discard
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I really love crafting albums and thinking of albums as a whole, not just individual songs or singles or just tracks, but a whole entire album.
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Singles
Crafting
Tracks
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There's a fullness that happens when someone is focussed on you. For me, if I'm being fully looked at and paid attention to and seen, I'm filled up by that.
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Filled
Fullness
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I can't really choose how I'm going to connect to music. I find it just has to hit a wave, and just wash over me and take me completely to some other space.
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Wave
Space Music Me
Wash
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When you're playing music and you're starting to expose yourself for the first time, there's nothing more powerful than being listened to and being actually heard.
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Time Music Yourself
Expose
Listened
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We all need ways of processing things. I think I was called to music because it was this thing that was always there for me that I could pour my heart into safely.
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Processing
Music Heart Me
Pour
Safely
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My mother was really beautiful, and I had to deal with her being objectified my entire childhood. But she also had this depth and purity that was almost otherworldly.
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Childhood
Depth
Purity
Deal
Entire
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I've felt since I was a kid this desperate longing to be closer to - I don't know what. Just to something bigger, to be in conversation with the mystery of everything.
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Bigger
Conversation
Desperate
Longing
Closer
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There's a natural separation that kids have to go through with their parents, but then when you put that on top of actually having a career, it gets even more painful.
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Separation
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We pop into existence and we know that we die and we know that we lose everyone that we love and we know we even lose our own bodies. And what a paradigm. What a mystery.
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Paradigm
Bodies
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My dad was basically my manager from ages 13 to 16. I was on this train towards becoming a child pop star. Not that I would have necessarily become a star, but that was the goal.
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Ages
Pop Star
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I feel that performing is its own art form, and recording is its own art form, and writing is its own art form, and that they all can happen simultaneously but at different paces.
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Art Form
Simultaneously
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That's the way I started playing music: just playing guitar by myself in my room when I was a kid, and exploring the guitar and exploring the space I was in, with no project in mind.
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Exploring
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I never went through a wave of hating Christianity, even though my parents were born-again Christians, and there were a lot of ideas that were being practiced that I think were misguided.
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Born Again
Christianity
Misguided
Wave
Hating
Practiced
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So we're in this process of letting go of our own attachments to our physical forms and to the people we love, and... basically everything. Life is like this one big process of letting go.
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Letting Go
Life Love People
Basically
Forms
Letting
Physical
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A lot of our creative flow comes from a place of curiosity and exploration. It often feels like we're excavating and asking questions and not just giving answers but really just exploring.
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Answers
Asking Questions
Creative
Curiosity
Exploration
Exploring
Feels
Flow
Giving
Often
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I'd gotten used to recording background vocals perfectly, doing 18 takes of them until they line up. Not recognizing the inherent beauty in each performance, but just making something good.
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Inherent
Recognizing
Perfectly
Something Good
Vocals
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I like leaving a space hollowed out, where as I change I can inject new meaning in the shell of the songs all of the time. Where anyone who listens can hopefully inhabit them in their own way.
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Leaving
Change Space Time
Inhabit
Listens
Shell
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With music, when you finish a record, you are entwined with it throughout your existence in a way which is both interesting and challenging because it's a living form, you have to come back to it.
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Entwined
Music Your Way
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Yeah it's mostly driving and taking airplanes but I like the trains - they're probably my favorite mode of transportation. They're smooth, steady, and you've got a lot of room and can walk around.
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Airplane
Smooth
Steady
Trains
Mode
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Mostly I've just been stealing little moments for myself in order to write - in the bathroom at a hotel, or just slipping away for a half an hour. Amidst all of the touring, life has been happening.
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Bathroom
Hotel
Slipping
Amidst
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When I was born, my dad was playing music, so I'm pretty sure he was singing to me in the womb. I was born into music, in a way, because he was playing acoustic guitar. I was around an instrument growing up.
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Acoustic Guitar
Womb
Acoustic
Music Dad Guitar
Instrument
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I always said I got my music from my dad, but my mom had these cassettes - Bjoerk and the Cocteau Twins and the Talking Heads. That was her music, and she would just get so wild and free when she listened to it.
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Talking Heads
Twins
Music Dad Mom
Heads
Listened
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I want everyone to feel very welcomed in the space of our music and our songs, it doesn't matter what you believe or think, I just want to cultivate a space of peace and to touch on these things that bind us as humans.
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Bind
Cultivate
Our Music
Welcomed
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I feel like there's such ancient pain in us as humans. For instance, we come from this patriarchal lineage where women have been oppressed, and we're feeling, I think, collective pain from these energies being so out of balance.
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Ancient
Instance
Lineage
Oppressed
Collective
Energies
Patriarchal
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I'm attracted to wilderness in any sense. Which is why I'm attracted to New York in a way, because I feel like it's a wilderness of people and textures. Just like, there's so much life and richness here. And you can get lost in it.
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Richness
Wilderness
Life Lost People
Textures
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The acoustic guitar is my first love, I've been playing since I was a kid, and I feel the most at home when I'm sitting with an acoustic, I just love it so much. It changes my heart. I love the vibration and frequencies and the resonance.
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Acoustic Guitar
First Love
Resonance
Love Home Heart
Acoustic
Vibration
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Everything is fleeting and passing and impermanent in life. Relationships, people, our finite physical forms... We let go of our childhoods, we let go of different parts of our body, we lose elasticity in our skin, and we lose hair and we lose teeth.
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Body
Elasticity
Finite
Passing
Teeth
Life Lose People
Skin
Forms
Childhoods
Different Parts
Let Go
Lose
Parts
Physical
Relationships
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Well, whenever I visit New York it feels pretty romantic, so I sometimes think about coming back here. But then I wonder if it's just 'cause I'm visiting that it feels so good. But also, Minnesota. I could imagine myself finding a place in Minneapolis.
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Romantic
Feels
Imagine
Minneapolis
Wonder
Good Myself New
Cause
Finding
Visit
Whenever
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It's like, the more you zoom in and focus on the details, the closer to the invisible and immeasurable qualities - like consciousness and energies - you get. And expanding outwards, into the cosmos, you learn more about the invisible or perceptible things.
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Consciousness
Cosmos
Details
Expanding
Focus
Invisible
Closer
Energies
Immeasurable
Qualities
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I don't like it when religions take it to the point where they discredit all other religions, because how could one sector of people have figured it out and know that that's it? But I do think that there's so much beauty in a lot of the stories or scriptures.
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Discredit
Religions
Figured
Scriptures
Sector
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Some people operate in complete fear that they're gonna lose their stuff and their money. That sounds like hell to me. And then I guess some people operate with hands open, and maybe empty, but at least striving for a deeper understanding of what it means to care.
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Deeper
Empty
Operate
Striving
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There's something special in music about the repetition of playing something where it becomes a home and a fortress and a space that you inhabit, like maybe we could move this little thing here, or rearrange the furniture. You're so acquainted with every part of it.
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Space
Furniture
Repetition
Something Special
Special
Acquainted
Becomes
Fortress
Inhabit
Little Thing
Maybe
Rearrange
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I had a band and I didn't go to high school, all my friends were older than me. It was pretty cool to have such a focus at that age, but also it alienated me from a lot of people my age. So I felt pretty lonely and I didn't really have many friends when I was a kid.
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Lonely
Alienated
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It's about surrendering to this feeling of utter fragility, and singing through the volatility of it all. The earth is unstable, and I'm part of the earth. I can feel it coursing through my own body. I feel the energy of everything, flickering. Let's just sing together.
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Energy
Fragility
Singing
Unstable
Volatility
Utter
Flickering
Sing
Surrendering
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I think I'm learning how to release every day. Recognizing that everything you encounter, touch, or love can become part of you, and in essence never disappears, as long as you can recall it to memory or heart. It's all so connected that we lose everything, but also, we never lose anything.
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Essence
Recognizing
Release
Disappears
Encounter
Recall
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I think that being alive is intense for most beings in some way. Even the process of being born is an intense one, and coming to see and understand and experience the physical world, and all that goes along with being a physical being, and experiencing all of these different forms of loss throughout life.
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Alive
Intense
Loss
Process
Life Experience World
Beings
Forms
Coming
Experiencing
Physical
Physical World
Throughout
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I was born into a religious cult in Indianapolis, straight up. They had an apartment complex in this one area, and there were all these rules. My parents met through church and got married really shortly after, when they were both searching for connection and meaning, just like everyone is when they're 20.
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Cult
One Area
Searching
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We're in transit so often and when we're moving from one place to the next and I have to be very alert and present and aware of where we are. You know, just like protecting our gear and making sure we get from one place to the next safely, being around so many people's energies. It's not just like a totally open and relaxed state to be in.
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Relaxed
Where People Know
Alert
People Know Where
Energies
Gear
People Place Know
Protecting
Safely
Transit
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