“One of the reasons why I chose to live in New York was that there is this sense of your environment constantly changing.” Quote by Taraka Larson
“I had this crazy, a bit of a near-death experience in Estonia. I had these visions of the future but I was in this state where I felt the past, the present, and the future were all happening at the same time.” StatesPastFeltBitsVisionCrazyHappeningsNear DeathNear Death ExperienceVisions Of The FutureEstonia Author:Taraka Larson
“Hopefully, with some years of practice and just getting to that state, I'll try extreme sports again.” TryingYearsStatesSportsPracticeExtremesHopefullyExtreme Sports Author:Taraka Larson
“I really wanted to be able to make the music that acknowledged the metaphysical aspect of extreme sports because when I started watching GoPro videos, the thing that struck me the most was that the sound seemed completely detached from the imagery.” AbleWantedSportsSoundAspectExtremesVideoMetaphysicalImageryDetachedExtreme Sports Author:Taraka Larson
“I really feel like there's a void in this world for music that acknowledges that spiritual aspect of these activities as well as just the sheer physicality of them.” WorldFeelsWellsSpiritualThis WorldActivityAspectAcknowledgeVoidSheerPhysicality Author:Taraka Larson
“I had writers block for months afterwards because I was just so taken aback by all of the sounds I was hearing. It's almost like hearing the most beautiful music you've ever heard, so you're like, "What's the point of me making anything?" It was this living sonic organism so the idea of recording something just seemed like taking this living thing and mummifying it.” IdeasBeautifulSoundTakenHeardMonthsHearingBlockOrganismsLiving ThingsWriter's BlockBeautiful Music Author:Taraka Larson
“Nimai [Larson] and I are very psychically connected to each other, I guess just being sisters, so as soon as we started watching sports videos we thought, "Oh yeah, we could totally get into this zone.” SportsYeahConnectedVideoZoneJust BeingWatching Sports Author:Taraka Larson
“I always look at that stuff as something that's not a separate entity from the music but a visual representation of the music. I feel like your external appearance should be in harmony with your internal appearance. That's mainly our approach to the visuals.” FeelsShouldLooksStuffLike YouApproachHarmonyAppearanceVisualsInternalsEntityRepresentationExternal Appearance Author:Taraka Larson
“My mother and I are more than best friends; we are partners in crime. After she and my father, Quincy Jones, separated when I was 10 years old, my sister, Kidada, who was 12, went to live with our dad, and I stayed with my mother.” YearsMotherFatherCrimeDadPartnersMy SisterPartners In Crime Author:Rashida Jones
“There are a lot of unspoken things with me and Nimai [Larson]. We're very yin and yang, neither one of us really treads on each other's toes. She's this wizard of the rhythm world, and I know nothing about that, but I can dabble with melody and lyrics and that's something she doesn't really have any interest in. We complement each other in that way.” KnowsWorldWayI CanInterestRhythmMelodyToesWizardsUnspokenComplementYangYin And Yang Author:Taraka Larson
“My parents both renounced their material lives and were living as monks at an ashram in L.A. when they met each other. So we were always raised in this environment and when we moved to the ashram in Florida it was just like, "Oh, wow, now all of a sudden there's more people like us," because we were growing up in the middle of Texas with our parents, always being the weirdos.” PeopleParentGrowing UpEnvironmentGrowingMiddleMaterialsMetsMovedRaisedTexasWowFloridaMonkWeirdo Author:Taraka Larson