Caroline Shaw Quotes

Caroline Shaw — American Musician born on December 30, 1982,

Caroline Adelaide Shaw is a New York City-based violinist, singer, and composer. She was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 2013 for her a cappella piece Partita for 8 Voices... (wikipedia)

'Partita' is a simple piece. Born of a love of surface and structure, of the human voice, of dancing and tired ligaments, of music, and of our basic desire to draw a line from one point to another.

Be free, and live life fully.

Every day, you have to make three hours of music, just randomly improvising, and that's a great way to weed stuff out.

I guess I'd like people to be able to forget a lot of things and just enjoy the beauty of harmony and melody for a moment.

It was sort of an experiment to try to leave the violin. Can I be a real person without this thing? It was a big part of my identity.