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"When can you understand that the music you play is very good? It is when people look at you but see no one, no one but the music!"
"As the strings of a lute are apart though they quiver the same music."
"Music is well said to be the speech of angels."
"To understand fully the importance of music, you must try to image a world without music! Such a world would be a world of hopelessness and boredom!"
"As I fingered my way through the songs, I felt my worries slough away. My music has always been the best remedy for my dark moods. As I sang, even my bruises seemed to pain me less."
Explore more quotes by Iris DeMent
"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."
"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."
"I never set out to write songs about the world around me... it just kind of came about as a result of paying more attention to things."
"I was mainly influenced by the Carter Family, Jimmie Rodgers, Loretta Lynn, Merle Haggard, and others like Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash."
"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."
"Writing, overall, has never been what I'd call fun. It's fulfilling. It doesn't come real easy for me."
"Maybe I spent more time dwelling on emotions than some people, and maybe that's why I ended up writing."
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