Author Profile
Cat Power
1972 • American • Musician
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Showing 28 quotesI've always done things myself. I've never bragged or screamed that I produced a record before. I never told anybody.— Cat Power
I got told I needed a producer I don't know how many times - maybe 27 times, 30? Then I recently got told 'I'm so proud of you.' That was even more great to hear.— Cat Power
There's just a lot of stuff that really moves me, and I don't know how to express it, and I just want to try to do the best I can and surround myself with good people who don't invalidate me.— Cat Power
I think the hardest thing about my life is that I've met so many people all over the world who I love, but they're not friends with each other.— Cat Power
We're always going to remind ourselves of our mistakes and how we do things differently, trying to be a better person or whatever.— Cat Power
Usually, I'll just sit down at a piano or with a guitar, and I'll just be relaxed and playing music. Because that's what relaxes your subconscious. That's why everyone from animals to humans love music.— Cat Power
Hip-hop and R&B is mostly what I listen to. I don't have a connection with punk rock - I just never had that experience.— Cat Power
Playing the guitar, you kind of lock into a rhythm and a groove, and then it relaxes me to make up lyrics and sing.— Cat Power
From folk to tribal to Cab Calloway, Cole Porter, Gershwin to the Rolling Stones, whose first record was all covers, to country-western, bebop, blues, and even the referencing in classic hip hop to cliched love ballads of the '80s or whatever - that is kinda gone, and that's just terrifying to me.— Cat Power
For me, the moment the mic is on and it's rolling, it's impossible to vocally relax for some reason. But one day, I'm going to be able to sing the way I sang when I was a little kid, completely open and free. That's, I think, the one thing that's changed: Growing older, I'm not ashamed to hear my voice.— Cat Power