Clairo Professions : Musician Browse All Authors Top 26 quotes by Clairo I want everyone who's listening to know who I am and not just see me as this singer. I want them to feel connected to my story. Clairo i-am story feel me I'm a producer at heart. Clairo producer heart I felt like I needed to be a 'pretty girl' for someone else. I felt like I needed to change a lot about who I actually was to be perfect for them instead of just being who I am genuinely. Clairo i-am someone girl change I'm someone that needs to talk about my problems. I call my mom every single day at school just to vent about random stuff. Singing is the same thing. Clairo random day singing school I never want to be one of those artists who feels untouchable and extraordinary. I have to be genuine. Clairo never extraordinary genuine want The fact that there has to be a man behind my success when I genuinely have worked so hard is frustrating. Clairo behind man hard success It's crazy to feel like you have to sell yourself and just, like, be almost... marketable. I'd never thought of it that way. Clairo yourself feel you crazy Making music has always made me happy. When I go through a situation, the best way for me to get over it is to bundle up all of my emotions about it, put it in a little shell, create something, and then let it go. Clairo best me music happy My teacher wanted me to do 'Hot Cross Buns,' but all I wanted to learn was 'Island in the Sun' by Weezer. Clairo me sun hot teacher I had moved around my whole life. That was the one thing that was always so hard. Clairo always one-thing hard life I'm still not entirely sure how 'Pretty Girl' blew up the way it did. It wasn't really meant to. The song was originally meant for a compilation tape for a magazine called 'The Le Sigh', and I made the video in about 30 minutes. Clairo pretty-girl girl song way I remember the first album I really completely geeked out over was The Shins' 'Wincing The Night Away.' That album was everything to me. Clairo everything me remember night I was like this weird, edgy 10-year-old. I was figuring out who I was, obviously at the worst time. I had braces and bangs, and it was a nightmare. Clairo weird like worst time I bought this Oxygen midi synth from a flea market in Boston for $10. And then I found a cord in my house that fit it, and so I just started using that to do synth stuff in GarageBand. Clairo just oxygen found house It's really weird being placed into something like that because it was never an intention to make bedroom pop. I was just making music. All the people that have that genre placed on them are not the first people to have a home studio and and post it on the Internet. Clairo internet music home people At the end of the day, when people say, 'Oh, she's an industry plant,' I'm like, 'No, I just have representation, like every single other artist you listen to.' I'm not the first person to get a manager. Clairo end-of-the-day day you people I've always wanted to be a PC Music girl, like Hannah Diamond or SOPHIE. Clairo like always music girl I'm still writing from personal experiences, which is what people connected with in the first place. Clairo personal place writing people It keeps me from getting too overwhelmed about the industry when I can just do my math homework. Clairo just me homework i-can My stuff gets in a lot of vaporwave Facebook groups for some reason. Clairo facebook some reason stuff Similar Authors Adam Jones musician Izzy Stradlin musician Bon Scott musician Brad Delp musician Brad Delson musician Brian Eno musician All Authors
