Caroline Shaw Quotes

I played a lot of Bach's partitas and sonatas; I like the way that Bach was abstracting already from these dance forms.

Every day, you have to make three hours of music, just randomly improvising, and that's a great way to weed stuff out.

'Partita' is a simple piece. Born of a love of surface and structure, of the human voice, of dancing and tired ligaments, of music, and of our basic desire to draw a line from one point to another.

I grew up listening to - it's kind of embarrassing - all classical music.

I guess I'd like people to be able to forget a lot of things and just enjoy the beauty of harmony and melody for a moment.

I could read music and sing all the right notes at the right time. And over time, I literally found my voice, found a way to make sound.

It was sort of an experiment to try to leave the violin. Can I be a real person without this thing? It was a big part of my identity.

Gabrielle opened the fridge, which was held shut with a strip of gaff tape, and pulled out sliced white bread, margarine and plastic cheese. It was the only time Lenny had seen ants running out of a fridge.

Be free, and live life fully.

I was curious about experimenting with different colors - kind of like having an expanded orchestra. Suddenly, instead of just writing for strings, you can add bassoon and oboe and brass. I like these extreme differences in sounds right next to each other.

Living in New York City, you have to keep trying to do a lot of things.