Iris DeMent quotes
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“And I've been walking 'round with memories way too long.”
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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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“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 was mainly influenced by the Carter Family, Jimmie Rodgers, Loretta Lynn, Merle Haggard, and others like Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash.”
-- Iris DeMentSource : "The poor are treated like enemies". Interview with Richard Phillips, www.wsws.org. April 18, 1998.
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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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“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.”
-- Iris DeMentSource : "The poor are treated like enemies". Interview with Richard Phillips, www.wsws.org. April 18, 1998.
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“I've always written about things that cause me to feel something.”
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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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“Turn off the TV and start digging around for information that's not from a corporation trying to make money.”
-- Iris DeMentSource : "The poor are treated like enemies". Interview with Richard Phillips, www.wsws.org. April 18, 1998.
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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 don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.”
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“Writing, overall, has never been what I'd call fun. It's fulfilling. It doesn't come real easy for me.”
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“Making the record was tons of fun, the most fun I've ever had.”
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“Some guy refuses to fight and we call that the sin, but he's standing up for what he believes in and that seems pretty damned American to me.”
-- Iris DeMentSource : Song: Wasteland of the Free, Album: The Way I Should
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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.”
-- Iris DeMentSource : "The poor are treated like enemies". Interview with Richard Phillips, www.wsws.org. April 18, 1998.
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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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“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.”
-- Iris DeMentSource : "'The Poor Are Treated Like Enemies' An Interview with Iris DeMent". Interview with Richard Phillips, www.wsws.org. April 18, 1998.
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“We got CEOs making 200 times the worker's pay, but they'll fight like hell against raising the minimum wage.”
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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.”
-- Iris DeMent
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