Fred Eaglesmith quotes

Fred Eaglesmith quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“There really are two different schools of songwriting-American and Canadian. It's interesting. You guys have this history of guys like Paul Williams and Jimmy Webb, and they're different than Neil Young and Joni Mitchell and Leonard Cohen. All those weird voices come out of Canada. That's because it's so cold here we can hardly open our mouth. We get much less light in Canada. No wonder the writing's dark.”
-- Fred Eaglesmith

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“I wrote 'Millie's Cafe' driving out of Ft. Worth, Texas one time. I was in a dust storm in my old bus. Beer inside. It was like a sailboat, you know...we couldn't see anything. Some things about Texas are so different than Ontario. I was just thinking about how different it is from where I live and, you know, whatever happens to inspire a song happened.”
-- Fred Eaglesmith

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“You need to work at the craft of songwriting, but not only the craft. When I see people working both on themselves and the craft, and they combine those things...I just go, That's just fabulous.”
-- Fred Eaglesmith

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“Audrey Auld is a great singer songwriter. She holds a unique place in contemporary Americana/Roots music. I believe that this uniqueness is largely due to the fact that she is Australian. This affords her a totally different attitude as an artist than traditional American contributors to this genre. Audrey is one of the most honest original artists I know.”
-- Fred Eaglesmith

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“I think the bottom of the barrel is where the answers are.”
-- Fred Eaglesmith

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“When they come out to my shows they like me but trying to get them to come out to my shows they're like "I don't want to go and see that old guy" But when they do they totally get it.”
-- Fred Eaglesmith

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“The music that I play is much more accepted in America. Do you know what I mean? Americans recognize and not necessarily country music. I go to a lot of places in Canada and they go "I don't like country music" and they think I'm a country musician. When I am a country musician but not a country musician like they think of.”
-- Fred Eaglesmith

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“I had casually rented an apartment that cost $75 a month because I expected my writing to pay my way.”
“I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better.”
“The interesting adults are always the school failures, the weird ones, the losers, the malcontents, this isnâ€™t wishful thinking. Itâ€™s the rule.”

Source : "The Parenting Trap" by A. A. Gill, www.vanityfair.com. November 2, 2012.
“But then, even with sex, I'm more in the school of less is more in movies.”
“I was very unsure about what I wanted to do in high school.”

Source : "PLAYBILL.COM'S BRIEF ENCOUNTER With Aaron Tveit". Interview with Kenneth Jones, www.playbill.com. July 24, 2010.
“I was a very awkward high schooler, especially in early high school. I had the middle part with a swoop, all that. It was the late â€™90s!”

Source : "Broadway Favorite Aaron Tveit Tackles the Small Screen With ‘Graceland’". Interview with Suzy Evans, www.backstage.com. June 27, 2013.
“Behind the parents stands the school, and behind the teacher the home.”
“Godâ€™s jewels are often sent us in rough packages and by dark liveried servants, but within we find the very treasures of the Kingâ€™s palace and the Bridegroomâ€™s Love.”
“If you can socialize from the privacy of your desk at night in a dark room, you can be a smoother, cooler, funnier, sexy, more everything person than you actually are in real life.”
“Death to a good man is but passing through a dark entry, out of one little dusky room of his Father's house into another that is fair and large, lightsome and glorious, and divinely entertaining.”

Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 178, 1895.

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