Gillian Welch quotes
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“You know, it's a pretty mysterious thing still, why you start the songs you start, and the specific flavor of them, the nature of them. I don't know about other writers, but, for me, it's still somewhat out of my control. It's not really a logical process.”
-- Gillian WelchSource : "Gillian Welch and David Rawlings: Welcome To The Machine". Interview with Jewly Hight, americansongwriter.com. November 04, 2009.
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“Each person comes to have this musical experience, this moment with us, where they get to sink into our world for a little while. It’s this very unhurried world. It’s fairly quiet, it’s contemplative, but it can be quite panoramic. I think people think interesting thoughts at our shows, and they go rather deeply into some personal experience of their own. I’m really proud that our music seems to connect, because it’s not for everybody. But for the people that our music works for, it really gets down pretty deep in there.”
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“Some girls are bright as the morning / And some girls are blessed with a dark turn of mind.”
-- Gillian WelchSource : Song: Dark Turn of Mind, Album: The Harrow & The Harvest
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“I've never been the kind of person who would get up and wave my arms and scream and shout and say, 'Hey, listen to this, listen to this.”
-- Gillian WelchSource : "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. July 18, 2011.
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“I do think that the abiding mystery of my origins has definitely had a profound effect upon my writing. There is that thing in the back of my mind where I think I don't really know who I am. And it may make it a little easier to shift around in my narrative voice.”
-- Gillian WelchSource : "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. July 18, 2011.
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“I like the songs to appear very simple and to flow by without any kind of hiccup, but there has to be this impression of other currents underneath. Like if the songs aren't, on some level, multidimensional, we lose interest in them.”
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“I love that there's this tradition of being able to discuss the heaviest topics and the gnarliest stuff that goes down in people's lives in traditional Southern American music.”
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“The main thing was finding this... voice that I had interest in, which I'll call the quiet-yet-stoic voice: the very quiet yet very strong voice that I developed, that people would want to hear and that was worth paying attention to.”
-- Gillian WelchSource : "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. July 18, 2011.
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“There's a world of troubleTrying to take its turn I can hear it shaking undergroundAnd half a dozen lessons I might never learn Not until them troubles come around.”
-- Gillian WelchSource : Song: Only One And Only, Album: Revival
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Source : "Bobby Flay on Good Fast Food and Bad Restaurant Ideas". Interview with Andrew Del-Colle, www.menshealth.com. March 11, 2011.
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“When you pursue great flavor, you also pursue great ecology.”
Source : "Chef Dan Barber pioneers ethical approach to creating flavor but may prickle some purists". www.foxnews.com. October 10, 2012.
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