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Iris DeMent

"My guitar is really tempermental. I don't give up on it though, I'm close to my guitar!"

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Iris DeMent
"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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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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Iris DeMent
"My guitar is really tempermental. I don't give up on it though, I'm close to my guitar!"

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Iris DeMent
"I was mainly influenced by the Carter Family, Jimmie Rodgers, Loretta Lynn, Merle Haggard, and others like Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash."

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Iris DeMent
"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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"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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Iris DeMent
"Making the record was tons of fun, the most fun I've ever had."

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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."

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Iris DeMent
"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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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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Aberjhani

"Pete Townshend used to crash chords and let the guitar feed back. He's overrated."

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Aberjhani

"I always wanted a guitar. I always wanted to be a cowboy singer because I also listened to Hank Williams, and he would always sing these neat romantic songs."

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Aberjhani

"I just hate to be in one corner. I hate to be put as only a guitar player, or either only as a songwriter, or only as a tap dancer. I like to move around."

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Aberjhani

"I did play every little note on the guitar on that record."

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Aberjhani

"In the last couple of years I've been picking up my guitar again."

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Aberjhani

"You should approach a sequencer like you would a Dobro guitar."

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Aberjhani

"I just go where the guitar takes me."

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Aberjhani

"I have a piano and a guitar, and I tend to switch back and forth between those two instruments to help me get inspired."

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Aberjhani

"I have been playing a lot of keyboards, especially in the last five or six years. I suppose it gives you more scope than the guitar, although it does tend to make you write a different way."

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Aberjhani

"We didn't have any instruments, so I had to use my guitar."

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