I started playing music when I was 18. My heart was just broken so badly that I decided that I really wanted to start playing music. It felt like the only thing that I could do in response to that. And I've been playing ever since. Lola Kirke More Quotes by Lola Kirke More Quotes From Lola Kirke The classical music scene was completely unfamiliar to me. A lot of people think of older generations and stuffiness. But it's not. You listen to the Overture of 1812, and you can hear a rock n' roll catharsis. Lola Kirke rocks people thinking I guess part of my ambivalence about pursuing music as well as acting is that acting is already one of the most difficult careers to create for yourself, I must be insane to embark on creating two careers in two of the most difficult fields. But I have really different ambitions with music; I just want to stay in love with music. I want it to continue to be a means of expression for me that feels like it's mine, and something that feels community-based. Lola Kirke ambition expression mean The idea of choosing something that you want to be, that you identify as, at a young age and pursuing that without question - for me that was acting. Lola Kirke acting age ideas I guess I was always envious of people who got to move to New York for college because they got to see the city that I, perhaps, was pretty jaded by with new eyes and discover for themselves that Andy Warhol was dead. Lola Kirke eye new-york moving There's something really natural to me about being what they call in the business a "hyphenate." Being a musician-actor or writer-musician-actor. Lola Kirke musician actors natural Making music is so much more self-motivated. It's my own music. It's my own time. I don't have a team around me that's helped me make everything. Lola Kirke motivated team self Aligning my music with something that feels morally and politically passionate to me feels good. Lola Kirke passionate feel-good feels I'm going to be a better actor, or I'm going to try to be a better actor. I'm going to try to be a better musician. I'm going to be an artist instead of just this one thing. Lola Kirke musician artist trying You don't have that interaction with the audience when you're acting for film; you're kind of acting in a vacuum. You're acting for a disinterested grip who just wants to reply to his wife about what time he'll be home for dinner. Everyone else on a film set is also there because they're paid to be there. They're not there because they're passionate about what you do necessarily. Lola Kirke wife acting home As soon as I saw myself beginning to be way too comfortable on a film set or TV set, and not stimulated by it the way that I had been that had brought me to want to be there professionally and creatively, was the moment that I started getting really, really sad. I decided, "Okay, I just want to actually be here, how can I make this be interesting for me?" Lola Kirke want way interesting When I have no idea what to do with how I'm feeling, I generally make a song out of it. Lola Kirke feelings song ideas I love acting so much, but listening to music and making music has been the greatest savior for me. Lola Kirke savior acting listening I realized that I really didn't like the sound of the ukulele so much so I started playing the guitar. Lola Kirke ukulele guitar sound I had no kind of work ethic and I always felt that music - especially rock 'n' roll - was a more for boys. Lola Kirke work-ethic rocks boys Growing up with my dad being a musician, it seemed like a male centric world to me. I just didn't know many girls playing guitar. Lola Kirke growing-up dad girl All my best girlfriends play guitar now, which is kind of a funny world to live in. Lola Kirke guitar girlfriend play Perhaps like attracts like, and that's why I found myself in a circle of women who are so passionate about making music. Lola Kirke passionate circles found It takes a lot of courage to be a performer. Lola Kirke performers Even though I was performing all the time as an actress and I was doing all of these plays as a kid, there's a vulnerability about being a musician that you don't get [when] you perform somebody else's work. Lola Kirke musician play kids You perform the thing that you made, that's inside of you, and to subject that to any kind of scrutiny is terrifying. It's still terrifying to me. Lola Kirke scrutiny kind made
