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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."

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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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"The person whose attention is in the 'pure Soul' is known as a renowned person. No one in the past had been celebrated as a famous person, they were called renowned persons. To be famous is the result of an 'above normal' state."

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"You don't care for anybody... you just do it for attention, isn't it true?"

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"Make It Fun. Have you ever been publicly acknowledged or called upon in a room filled with people? Depending on your personality type, it can be either exhilarating or mortifying. It certainly does grab your attention, as well as everyone else's!"

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"N order to capture someone's attention, you must allow them to have the mental and emotional space to let you in."

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"The highest ecstasy is the attention at its fullest."

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"You can't get attention of one who focused on himself."

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"If you feel obsessed to prove something to the world, then you'd need world attention to be able to prove it."

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"You stick your head above the crowd and attract attention and sometimes somebody will throw a rock at you. That's the territory. You buy the land, you get the Indians."

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"My books were always full of ink blots, always stained and covered with smeared sketches and pictures, which one draws idly when his attention wanders from his task."

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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'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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"My guitar is really tempermental. I don't give up on it though, I'm close to my guitar!"
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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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"Maybe I spent more time dwelling on emotions than some people, and maybe that's why I ended up writing."
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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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