Lola Kirke Quotes

I’m practicing the oboe. But I don’t play. Just single notes, not an entire piece of music.

– Lola Kirke

I definitely wanted to be famous as a kid, but as I’ve gotten older, I feel less comfortable with it.

– Lola Kirke

I’m the only one in my family with an American accent.

– Lola Kirke

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

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

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

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

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

I spend a lot of time doing watercolors and playing music in my apartment.

– Lola Kirke

I think the merging of high and low culture is so fascinating.

– Lola Kirke