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Iris DeMent

"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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"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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"Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows."

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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!"

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"When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest."

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"As the strings of a lute are apart though they quiver the same music."

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"Music is the melody whose text is the world."

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"If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music."

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"Music is well said to be the speech of angels."

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"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!"

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"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."

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"I've always written about things that cause me to feel something."
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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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"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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"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 honestly don't listen to a lot of music - I spend so much time working at my own music."
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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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"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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"Turn off the TV and start digging around for information that's not from a corporation trying to make money."
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"Making the record was tons of fun, the most fun I've ever had."
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"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."
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