Mark Edwards Quotes

#1. Six inches, I reckon.

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#2. The turning point for me was when the Supreme Court installed Bush in 2000, even though he got half a million votes less nationally than Gore. It was nothing more than a bloodless coup and that's when I really started paying attention.

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#3. In my mid 30's, after a decade or so of giving full time to the music thing and finding myself with about $10 in the bank and no assets other than my musical equipment, I realized I needed to get serious about making a living.

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#4. alien landscape, and that we were a very long way from

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#5. I have always abhorred the business end of music.

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#6. Cleveland is the place I grew up and lived much of my adult life, so it will always be a part of my soul.

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#7. wankers snorting

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#8. Each of my records has a different focus, a different theme.

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#9. I pretty much ignored politics all through my 20's and 30's ... I had other things on my mind ... the band, finding a meaningful relationship, getting enough money to eat and pay the rent.

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#10. No life is unremarkable.

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#11. To me, all war is failure for humanity, though it often is a bounty for commerce.

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#12. I wondered if they had my name on database now, with an alert next to it: nutter.

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#13. At the time I attempted to purchase the rights back for the 3 Homestead records, but the owner demanded an outrageous sum in the neighborhood of $10,000, about 10 times more money than I could get my hands on at the time.

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#14. I also spend a lot of time on political blogs, and music blogs getting things for my radio show.

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#15. I probably had the most fun recording For Richer For Poorer in Nashville.

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#16. I followed most of the 80's bands into the 90's as most of those folks who hadn't moved away were all still active. However, there was a point when I lost track of the new bands coming up.

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#17. who kept reading out excerpts from her magazine, one of those real-life mags, full of stories about unfaithful spouses, child abuse and kids with cancer.

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#18. There's nothing remotely interesting to me about marketing music as a product.

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#19. They lyrical content has grown more introspective and less abstract. I don't know if that's good or bad ... Sometimes it feels a little raw to be putting so much of myself out there.

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#20. You can't get away from who you are I guess.

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#21. I am pretty detached from the local music crowd though.

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#22. This was life, really lived, a passage of magic that would flash before our eyes when we died. And to share it, to live through these experiences together, meant that Laura and I were closer than ever.

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