Marnie Stern Quotes & Sayings

Nobody ever cares what I say! I feel badly about it, I don't want to hurt anyone's feelings. — Marnie Stern

For stage I try to dress down, because I want people to take me seriously. — Marnie Stern

When you're a solo artist and you have a band on tour you have to pay the band some salary. You don't realise the expenses, the way they add up SO quickly. But thank god I'm not a money person. So it doesn't really bug me at all, I mean it's more comical to me ... — Marnie Stern

I'm sure that it's not good not to be around people. — Marnie Stern

I was listening to a lot of math rock-y type bands do lots of complex stuff and I couldn't figure out how they were doing it. Then I realized that sometimes they were finger tapping, so I started messing around doing it. — Marnie Stern

When you've got insane drums and a lot of guitar, it's really hard to mix the vocals, to mix it all well. — Marnie Stern

There are so many good guitarists out there, I am by no means a very good guitar player. — Marnie Stern

Some people seem so different, some people feel so much more than other people, some people are able to push past things so much easier. And ... it's just fascinating to me. — Marnie Stern

You like some things, you don't like others. It doesn't mean there's anything wrong with the others, it just means you have an opinion. — Marnie Stern

I feel like people are actually just built differently, have different chemicals going on in their goddamn brain. — Marnie Stern

I know of dude-bands who've brought big, crazy dogs on tour. Everybody loves their animal. — Marnie Stern

Mainstream to me equals boring, so I don't want to be doing that. — Marnie Stern

I never go out, ever. And I think that's why I've been craving human connection so badly, and in a way, I'm excited to go on tour to be around people all the time. — Marnie Stern

Most of my playing style is very on point - the tapping, just by nature of being rhythmic, is tight - so I'd like to explore something looser and less precise. — Marnie Stern

I had been wanting to give guitar lessons to girls because I feel like women tend to use their voice as the starting point for a song and learn a few chords, and then it ends there because then they just use their voice to flesh out a song. — Marnie Stern

I really don't separate male from female ever with music, I really don't. — Marnie Stern

People assume I sell a lot more records than I actually do. I really don't sell any. — Marnie Stern

Music is entirely subjective. I was thinking that for myself, for songwriting and what I like to listen to, to help motivate me as a songwriter, as a musician, there are certain things I lean towards and certain things I don't. — Marnie Stern

When I go on and listen to the stuff on the websites, I can't tell, it all sounds like the same band, like they should all be in one band together. — Marnie Stern

I feel like people who are guarded and shut off, I feel like they should have to wear a button that says, "shut down", "guarded" or something. — Marnie Stern

Labels want to capture a certain market of kids and blah blah blah, and it's true, I just never think about that stuff. It's all part of a chain that's moving along, but this phase of music has to switch. — Marnie Stern

If you have very few experiences in your life, romantically, or whatever you're doing, then of course you're going to talk about those, because there were only a few of them - as opposed to the people who repeat patterns, always at the bar, always with someone, always blah blah blah. — Marnie Stern

The point of life for me is just to make connections with people and share experiences with people. — Marnie Stern

Because music wasn't free yet, they wouldn't really offer MP3s so you had to buy things to see if you liked it or not. Which is crazy if you think about how much music you bought and then didn't even like the stuff. It was a different world where bands made money off their music. — Marnie Stern

The reason I could last for that long a period of being up was because the piece accidentally caught the excitement and adrenaline from, "Ooh this sounds different from usual ... Ooh I like that ... " That was the energy that kept me up. — Marnie Stern

I don't want to be seen as this math-rock geek. — Marnie Stern

It seems to me, that's the only thing that ends up being really fulfilling or satisfying - your career. — Marnie Stern

People don't seem to care about convictions any more. When I was a teenager, the deal was that, y'know, you had a band that you were really loyal towards, almost to a fault, and you stayed really loyal to that band. That was the whole thing, that was such a big deal. — Marnie Stern

Lightning Bolt and Hella are two bands I listen to, and there's a lot of finger tapping going on there. — Marnie Stern