33 Quotes by Petra Haden

I played violin from when I was about eight to thirteen, so I could read a little bit, but if you put a piece of music in front of me now, I would probably know the notes, but not the timing, how they're supposed to be played, and I just don't know how to read chords. If I'd stuck with it, I'd probably have more jobs.

Everyone knows about The Who, but I didn't. I knew the popular songs like "I Can See For Miles." So that was the first song I worked on because it was the catchiest and easiest.

People want to hear clean sounds; they don't want to hear coughing in the background, pages turning.

My grandparents on my mom's side played in a mandolin orchestra. So when I hear mandolins, I automatically think of them.

I've already done two cover albums. I don't know, maybe it wouldn't be a good idea to do another, but I just did the Led Zeppelin song for fun, and I thought I could do it kind of quick since songs that I love a lot I can do fast.

Harmony has always come very natural to us because we started singing harmony at an early age. We heard a lot of different music growing up.

Our dad played us a lot of old country songs by The Carter Family and he would sing along to it. I loved listening to him sing.

I never punched in anything when I recorded Imaginaryland. Where the title came from is a whole other story.

It's my favorite movie score and because I had such a crush on Christopher Reeve. The music made me love him even more. You know when you hear music in a movie and it makes you fall in love with the characters? That's what happened.