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• Rachel Trachtenburg: I really like the food at that place (Sidewalk Cafe). They have salads and pastas and stuff like that. What's your favorite food?
• Kimya Dawson:I like cherries.
• Rachel:That's a fruit. I said food.
• Kimya:Fruit's food.
• Rachel:You don't sit down and eat it. You don't eat it at a restaurant, like, "Oh, I'd like a fruit, please." You say, "I'd like a pizza please, or the pasta." Do you like Indian food? Mexican food? Italian food?
• Kimya: Japanese food.
• Rachel:Okay.
• Time Out New York Kids

• Christy Davis: Who do you look up to?
• Rachel: You mean, like a hero?
• Christy: Yeah, I guess. Someone you admire a lot.
• Rachel: A drummer?
• Christy: It can be anyone.
• Rachel: My mom
• Interview for DrummerGirl.com

• "I like lots of color and mix-and-match."
  • On her fashion sense(New York Times, August 2006
• "No. I don't think so. I hope not."
  • On whether or not she'd rebel against her parents.(Miami Herald December 13, 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 September 9, 2002
• "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 September 9, 2002
• "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 September 9, 2002
• "Stoosh over, daddy!"
  • Asking her father to move over while interviewing (Reprint of The Times
• "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
• "I'm learning to play piano. And also the musical saw."
  • On learning to play new instruments (Teen Vogue

Off & On Broadway documentary

• "Hi. I'm Rachel Trachtenburg. I'm the daughter and the drummer for the Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players."
  • Rachel's introduction on the documentary
• "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.
• "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.
• "We won 1st place and $500."
  • Rachel on the band's first appearence in a talent show in Seattle.

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

• "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.

• Interviewer: How long do your parents usually let you stay up?
• Rachel: I probably get home at 1:00 (am) and I go to bed at 1:30. (shrugs) I don't know.
• Tina: She's usually in bed at-
• Rachel: 1?
• Tina: 1.
• Interviewer: 1 am? (laughing)
• Tina: (laughing) 1 am. She's performing. She's-
• Rachel: Maybe on a school night, I go to bed at 10! Maybe.
• Tina: Yeah. Maybe. When you went to public school. Now she does homeschool, so she doesn't go to bed until 1.
  • Rachel's bedtime when she performs onstage.

• "It's fun hitting on the drums and singing songs."
  • Rachel on performing.

• "It's really fun and just to be with a friend while you're working really hard. It can sometimes be really stressful. Also it's just fun to have someone to laugh with and have a good time with."
  • Rachel on having friends with her while she tours.
• "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.
• "As an adult, I think I wanna be living in New York City and help a lot of homeless people and try to become vegan and maybe be a band with some good friends and be making a living and be happy with how much money I have."
  • Rachel on her adult goals.
• "I think bootlegging is kinda cool."
  • Rachel on bootlegging on the Off & On Broadway skit
• "I hope our DVD comes out better than this!"
  • Rachel on the low quality of the bootleg copy of Off & On Broadway skit