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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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Donna Grant

"Now they have banging guitar and no bass and call it rock, but that's not what I call rock."

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Donna Grant

"I just managed to convince my grandmother that it was a worth while that was something to do, you know, and when I did finally get the guitar, it didn't seem that difficult to me, to be able to make a good noise out of it."

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Donna Grant

"Bruce's band is so different from the Grateful Dead; there's no lead guitar player, for one thing."

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Donna Grant

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

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Donna Grant

"I wasn't originally a bass player. I just found out I was needed, because everyone wants to play guitar."

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Donna Grant

"Yeah. I'm amateurish. I can play enough to write a song, or strum on a little guitar to write out a song. But, I don't play well at all. I wouldn't even attempt for a second to play in public."

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Donna Grant

"Unless the guitar works as a color, then I don't use it, so I haven't been playing guitar too much lately."

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Donna Grant

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

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Donna Grant

"I always use the same guitar; I got this guitar years and years ago for nine pounds. It's still got the same strings on it."

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Donna Grant

"When you tune your guitar in a different way, it lends itself to a new way of looking at your songwriting."

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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!"

Guitar

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Iris DeMent
"Writing, overall, has never been what I'd call fun. It's fulfilling. It doesn't come real easy for me."

Fun

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Iris DeMent
"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."

Attention

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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."

Time

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Iris DeMent
"I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else."

People

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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."

Music

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Iris DeMent
"I've always written about things that cause me to feel something."

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Iris DeMent
"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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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."

Music

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