Tangled in transformation.
MELANIE MARTINEZIt’s just interesting how people relate my success when I would like to think that I worked my ass off for a reason and that it’s about the music and not because I was on a TV show.
More Melanie Martinez Quotes
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Is it easier to pretend we are as perfect as the stars above?
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I go with what I like and I generally just cling to things that are pastel and remind me of being a little kid. It’s just what it is right now, but I go through phases.
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When I was younger I used to be really into photography, and I still am, I just don’t really get to do it besides taking my own artists photos and stuff like that.
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It’s just weird because like when I was writing Cry Baby I like the only thing that I was thinking about, when writing it, was the concepts and the visuals, and the way that it sounded kind of happened naturally.
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I always mention toy sounds when I go into any session.
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No human interaction, just killing dead parts of myself to make room for the new.
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I just don’t really get to watch a lot of movies, like recently at least I haven’t been able to but I did watch The Exorcist for the first time ever, recently, and it didn’t scare me like I thought it was gonna scare me.
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Doing music is time consuming, will drain you, and stress you out at times. But in the end if you love doing it, and you’re putting out music you’re proud of, it will never feel like work. It’ll just feel like love.
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It is aurora borealis when your eyes are shut. It is beyond what our language can convey or comprehend.
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It’s like visual is super important to me. So if I am writing a song, like, I have to have the title.
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I obviously have a different connection to each song in a different way, and they all mean something different to me.
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Indulging in the pleasures of creation.
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Love starts inside of you.
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On the show [the Voice] I obviously wasn’t allowed [singing my own original music], because it’s not that type of show. I think it’s really cool that I get to do my own thing now.
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I think the transition between singing covers on a reality show to being able to do my own thing was really exciting. I’m no longer singing covers every second, and people are actually getting to hear my own original music.
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