Quotes by Avi Kaplan - Page 1

We were the choir nerds.
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Choir
Nerds
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I get on my porch with my guitar, look at my trees, and write a song.
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Porch
Song
Trees
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Our body is our instrument so it's really important for us to treat it right.
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Instrument
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Being in Pentatonix, we basically toured year round, so it was tough to just get a break.
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Round
Toured
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If you're going to start a group, make sure the people you're starting it with are in sync.
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Starting
Sync
Group
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I think it would be awesome for us to do collaborations and to try to gel with the mainstream.
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Mainstream
Awesome
Collaborations
Gel
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I always loved touring in Pentatonix; really the only reason it was tough was the pace and no breaks.
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Pace
Tough
Breaks
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Obviously when you write songs you've got to record them, but just writing the songs is one of my favorite things to do.
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Favorite Things
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I mean four hours of rehearsal done, trying out for 'The Sing-Off,' and now winning is just a dream come true for all of us.
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Hours
Rehearsal
Winning
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I feel like we're always going to be the underdog, but we like that. It's a really cool thing and it inspires us. It pushes us.
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Underdog
Cool Thing
Inspires
Pushes
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Folk music is very honest, it's very humble, it's very organic, and the voice is exactly that. And so I'm very excited to put the two together.
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Folk Music
Humble
Folk
Organic
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We know how to convey exactly what we want to convey. We know how it makes us feel and we know exactly how to show our fans how to feel the same way.
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Fans
Feel Way Know
Convey
Exactly
Exactly What
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I feel like people have been so used to listening to choirs during Christmas, so they love voices when it comes to Christmas, and that is exactly what we are.
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Choirs
Exactly What
Voices
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I love vocals and what they can do, and the different layers they can create, and I really want to bring that into folk music in terms of arrangements and stuff.
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Arrangements
Folk Music
Layers
Folk
Vocals
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I go by 'Avi' because it's easier, but Avriel is my full name, and the Sequoias, that represents my home. So it's the truest version of me, it's where I came from.
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Easier
Truest
Version
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That's really always been the music that I've been in love with, always the music that I've written growing up. Even through Pentatonix, folk music has been really my heart and soul.
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Folk Music
Heart And Soul
Love Music Heart
Folk
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We really can't go out and party every night like a lot of bands do - we have to keep our voices right for the show. It's a bummer, but you gotta do what you gotta do to live the dream.
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Bummer
Every Night
Party
Gotta
Voices
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For all the different videos that we got to dress up in, I love fantasy stuff, so for 'Radioactive,' I felt like I was a warrior, and for 'Daft Punk,' I felt like I was a space warrior.
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Daft
Radioactive
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Signing with Fantasy is an absolute dream come true. It's such a blessing to work with a label that truly cares about the soul of the music and to be on the same roster as artists that I've looked up to for as long as I can remember.
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Dream
Blessing
Fantasy
Signing
Absolute
Artists
Cares
Label
Looked
Truly
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It's extremely important, a cappella groups get so easily pigeonholed into essentially just being a cover band, and we want to be at the forefront to show it's its own art form and just a different way to have a band. Only we just use our voices.
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Art Form
Cappella
Different Way
Essentially
Forefront
Pigeonholed
Voices
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I knew I wanted to do music, but leaving such a successful career one would think I'd kind of shot myself in the foot. I knew I made the right decision, and at the end of the day it's up to me to get where I want to go, but it's a lot to take on.
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Decision
Leaving
Right Decision
Successful
Wanted
Shot
Career
End Of The Day
Foot
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We didn't want to just be a cover group, we wanted to do our music, to be a band. Once we were able to do it, it was a little scary, but it was also something inspiring - something new, fresh for us to get into. It was amazing to see the reaction of our fans.
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Inspiring
Something New
Our Music
Reaction
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I know for me, music was the best drug for anxiety. So that's why I wanted to write the music that I do, because it always suits my anxiety. It's a huge part of my life, and being able to make music that can help people with their anxiety is a huge thing for me.
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Huge
Suits
Life Best Music
Help People
Huge Part
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It's really important for me that the people who listen to my music get something that can hopefully help them get through whatever they're going through. Music is the only thing that's able to help sooth my soul in that way, and my goal is to always put things out there that that do the same thing for other people.
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My Soul
Music Soul Me
Same Thing
The Only Thing
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