Quotes by Britta Phillips - Page 1

I was pretty tough and serious in my 20s.
Britta Phillips / Musician
Serious
Tough
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The way I work is mostly unconscious and instinctive.
Britta Phillips / Musician
Unconscious
Way
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I went through a furnace and came out knowing who I am.
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Furnaces
Knowing
Who I Am
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You always want an album to sound like its own little planet.
Britta Phillips / Musician
Albums
Sound
Want
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I think I am a late-bloomer. My taste in music just keeps getting better.
Britta Phillips / Musician
Get Better
Taste In Music
Thinking
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It was definitely in my mind to do a solo album, but I didn't know it would take this long.
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Albums
Long
Mind
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It is a good thing to let someone else's vision take over, and it has always been a good thing in the end.
Britta Phillips / Musician
Ends
Good Things
Vision
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I love the feeling of nostalgia vying with the present. That can be from song to song, or within the same song.
Britta Phillips / Musician
Feelings
Nostalgia
Song
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Certain people have the eye of the tiger, and I never was myself that kind of person, although I'm not a slacker.
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Eye
Kind
People
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After being in the creative, hermetic state I have been in, coming out has been painful, but it is getting easier.
Britta Phillips / Musician
Creative
Easier
Painful
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Most of the time, the creative part is like playing in a sandbox. I can sit here and work for 12 hours and not get tired of it.
Britta Phillips / Musician
Creative
Hours
Tired
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The hard part was when I went into the studio with co-producer Eric Broucek, and he started slashing my demos. I always sweat that.
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Eric
Producers
Sweat
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I just love music, so that's what I'm always working on, and I try to say yes a lot. Maybe I'm more ambitious than I thought I was.
Britta Phillips / Musician
Ambitious
Music Love
Trying
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When I moved to New York in my 20s, I didn't have an obnoxious ego, but it was huge! I'll thought, "I'll never die and I can do anything."
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New York
Ego
Obnoxious
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Negative feelings can either lead to sinking into oneself and disappearing, or they can make you angry and want to prove that you're worthy to be in the conversation.
Britta Phillips / Musician
Feelings
Negative
Want
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Before I moved to Brooklyn to pursue music, I was a high school dropout and speed freak who'd been living with her dealer boyfriend in Bucks County, Pennsylvania at 16.
Britta Phillips / Musician
Brooklyn
Bucks
School
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I tend to work on a song, generate ideas, and re-arrange it like five times, and I'm glad I take the time to do that, because I think my original songs come out better.
Britta Phillips / Musician
Ideas
Song
Thinking
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I think that it's always more interesting to combine familiar sounds together in a new way and with newer sounds if you can make it work, rather than sticking to just one style too strictly.
Britta Phillips / Musician
Interesting
Style
Thinking
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I do have a lot of references coming out of the '60s, '70s, and '80s, but I don't consciously think, "I'm going to put this here and this there." It comes out of my unconscious, and I don't want it to be just retro.
Britta Phillips / Musician
Coming Out
Thinking
Want
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I was working as a cocktail waitress in a heavy metal bar. Then, my manager said I should try some acting, which led to an audition Satisfaction, where I played a musician in an all-girl band. That movie is where I met my future ex-husband Jody Porter.
Britta Phillips / Musician
Girl
Husband
Trying
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