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Iris DeMent

"I honestly don't listen to a lot of music - I spend so much time working at my own music."

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"I honestly don't listen to a lot of music - I spend so much time working at my own music."

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"What I try to impart to a musician is to really try to practice the instrument in a really sincere way. Learn as much about music as you possibly can. Learn composition. Study to try to create compositions of your own and put your own personal touch on your music."

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"I'm thinking in terms of a point of departure, a field of action for performers to express an expressive need of mine which hopefully the context of music would convey."

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"Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior."

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"I've performed solo for 20 years now, but I don't do much of it, because if you only play alone, you go crazy and out of tune and play foolish music."

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"If you talk bad about country music, it's like saying bad things about my momma. Them's fightin' words."

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"Music is the highest form of philosophy of the conscious mind."

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"I think it's like music for the sake of music, and a lot of the words stem from liking music a lot, wanting to be a good band and having a good sense of humour, and living in a situation where we're free to pretty much do what we want."

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"To be born in Wales, not with a silver spoon in your mouth, but, with music in your blood and with poetry in your soul, is a privilege indeed."

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"I run around, I listen to a lot of music, go to a lot of concerts. And when I see someone that gases me, I try to go out of my way to involve them somehow in what I'm doing or get involved in what they're doing."

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"Writing, overall, has never been what I'd call fun. It's fulfilling. It doesn't come real easy for me."
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"For a long time I was interested in being a social worker. In a lot of ways I feel that that's all my music is, trying to help people."
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"This is how it has been since time began: If you want to make something really worthwhile and true, then you have to suffer for it."
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"Most of the music you hear on the radio today is developed for making money. It doesn't feel true or honest. You can feel it in the music."
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"I don't describe myself as a Christian or religious, but I like to think that how I live my life is honest."
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"I've always been aware of having feelings that were pretty intense at times. I imagine most people have had that, or they wouldn't be human."
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"I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else."
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"If something bothers me, it bothers me for a long time until I find a way to work it out. Music provided me with a means of working things out."
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"My guitar is really tempermental. I don't give up on it though, I'm close to my guitar!"
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"Maybe I spent more time dwelling on emotions than some people, and maybe that's why I ended up writing."
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