Rachel Trachtenburg Quotes

Rachel Sage Piña-Trachtenburg , professionally known as Rachel Trachtenburg, is an American musician and singer. Trachtenburg is most notable for her key role as drummer and backup vocalist of the Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players, a family band consisting of herself and her parents, Jason and Tina, from 2000 to 2011. Trachtenburg was also lead singer of the band Supercute! from 2009 to 2013, and is currently the guitarist and vocalist for New York-based trio Wooing. In addition, Trachtenburg is also a model, signed to Elite Model Management; a radio talk show host for Gary Null's Progressive Radio Network; and an actress who appeared in indie movies Happy Birthday in 2004, Ruchiki in 2011 and Exteriors in 2014, as well as a television pilot for an unaired children's TV show titled Rachel Trachtenburg's Homemade World in 2009. Wikipedia  

✵ 10. December 1993
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Famous Rachel Trachtenburg Quotes

“Dad, this time you need to order smalls. You're always wrong about ordering. You always say we need mediums and larges, but girls like smalls.”

Rachel, in disapproval of her father's ordering of TFSP T-shirts.( The New Yorker https://archive.is/20130630000738/www.newyorker.com/printables/talk/020909ta_talk_mnookin September 9, 2002

“I hope our DVD comes out better than this!”

Rachel on the low quality of the bootleg copy of Off & On Broadway skit
Off & On Broadway documentary (2006)

“Hi. I'm Rachel Trachtenburg. I'm the daughter and the drummer for the Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players.”

Rachel's introduction on the documentary
Off & On Broadway documentary (2006)

“It's fun hitting on the drums and singing songs.”

Rachel on performing.
Off & On Broadway documentary (2006)

“My dad wrote a song about the people in the slides. I started playing harmonica. I was only six.”

Rachel on the song Mountain Trip To Japan, 1959 and how she ended up in the band.
Off & On Broadway documentary (2006)

Rachel Trachtenburg Quotes about thinking

“Interviewer: Rachel, do you think performing is natural?
Rachel: Mmmm.
Tina: See, it's natural for Rachel because she's done it her whole life.
Rachel: I know how to do it.”

Rachel on how performing in large crowds is natural for her.
Off & On Broadway documentary (2006)

“I think bootlegging is kinda cool.”

Rachel on bootlegging on the Off & On Broadway skit
Off & On Broadway documentary (2006)

“No. I don't think so. I hope not.”

On whether or not she'd rebel against her parents ( Miami Herald http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/entertainment/columnists/evelyn_mcdonnell/16227628.htm December 13, 2006

Rachel Trachtenburg Quotes

“We won 1st place and $500.”

Rachel on the band's first appearence in a talent show in Seattle.
Off & On Broadway documentary (2006)

“I'm learning to play piano. And also the musical saw.”

On learning to play new instruments ( Teen Vogue http://www.slideshowplayers.com/press/Teenvogue_feb07.html)

“I like lots of color and mix-and-match.”

On her fashion sense( New York Times http://www.slideshowplayers.com/press/NYT_aug06.html), August 2006

“I like New York better than Seattle. It's bigger. I was really sad when I left, because I miss my friends, but I call them almost every day, and I have friends here now.”

On why she prefers New York to Seattle ( The New Yorker https://archive.is/20130630000738/www.newyorker.com/printables/talk/020909ta_talk_mnookin September 9, 2002

“My dad played in different clubs and open mic nights. But he mostly walked dogs. A lot of dogs.”

Rachel's story of how her father, Jason, started out performing.
Off & On Broadway documentary (2006)

“They should call it the Low Quality Inn.”

On the lack of quality of the Quality Inn, in which she stayed in with her parents while on tour ( Reprint of The Times http://mycherieamour.blogspot.com/2005/02/trachtenburg-family-slideshow-players.html)

“I like The Beatles and I like The Kinks and I like The Rolling Stones and I like Led Zeppelin and I like Black Sabbath.”

Rachel on more of her favorite musicians.
Off & On Broadway documentary (2006)

“I like ABBA and the Beatles and Led Zeppelin. And E. L. O., and Funkadelic. Wait. Mommy, are they the same thing?”

On some of her favorite musicians ( The New Yorker https://archive.is/20130630000738/www.newyorker.com/printables/talk/020909ta_talk_mnookin September 9, 2002

“Some parents just work at…I don't know…Microscoft (She mispronounced the word. She meant Microsoft) and just sit there at a desk and their kids have to sit at a desk, too and…I don't know!”

Rachel on how different her and her parents' lifestyle is compared to other parents and their children.
Off & On Broadway documentary (2006)

“Stoosh over, daddy!”

Asking her father to move over while interviewing ( Reprint of The Times http://mycherieamour.blogspot.com/2005/02/trachtenburg-family-slideshow-players.html

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