The classical music scene was completely unfamiliar to me. It was something that I didn’t have the most fun associations around. A lot of people don’t – they 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 Read Quote
The oboe is the most maddening thing of all time. I’m struggling to play something that my oboe teacher was doing when she was much younger than I am. Lola Kirke Read Quote
We have this idea of artists being on the fringe and being debauched and strange. I don’t think that people who commit themselves to classical arts should be exempt from that. Lola Kirke Read Quote
I will never be good at the oboe. No matter what happens, I will never be good at it because I just don’t have that much time on my hands. I don’t have the gift of going back to being a child and having my brain develop around this instrument. Lola Kirke Read Quote
As somebody who has wanted to be an actor who is very young, I can relate to somebody who has been practicing oboe five days a week since they were very young. The physicality of anything a character does is a tremendous gift. Lola Kirke Read Quote
I’m practicing the oboe. But I don’t play. Just single notes, not an entire piece of music. Lola Kirke Read Quote
I definitely wanted to be famous as a kid, but as I’ve gotten older, I feel less comfortable with it. Lola Kirke Read Quote
