Iris Dement Quotes

#1. I honestly don't listen to a lot of music - I spend so much time working at my own music.

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#2. I've always written about things that cause me to feel something.

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#3. And I've been walking 'round with memories way too long.

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#4. Turn off the TV and start digging around for information that's not from a corporation trying to make money.

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#5. Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas.

Clarence Darrow

#6. I was mainly influenced by the Carter Family, Jimmie Rodgers, Loretta Lynn, Merle Haggard, and others like Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash.

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#7. Why do we insist women are cast 10 years younger than the role they're playing? Men don't know what a 30-year-old is supposed to look like because on TV she's always 20.

Carrie Coon

#8. Making the record was tons of fun, the most fun I've ever had.

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#9. Fool you once, you are forgiven. Fool you twice, you're just a fool.

Mary Chapin Carpenter

#10. 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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#11. I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.

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#12. I would have wanted my mom to see me settle down and to be a grandma to my kids.

Stephen Dorff

#13. My guitar is really tempermental. I don't give up on it though, I'm close to my guitar!

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#14. Not every puzzle is intended to be solved. Some are in place to test your limits. Others are, in fact, not puzzles at all ...

Vera Nazarian

#15. 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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#16. 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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#17. The profession of being a creative thinker is not so obvious.

David M. Kelley

#18. 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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#19. The promise of the early web was that everyone could have a website but there was something missing. Maybe the technology wasn't ready.

Matt Mullenweg

#20. 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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#21. 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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#22. 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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#23. I don't watch much TV at all.

Jason Derulo

#24. 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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#25. Someone like Ashlee Simpson, she lip-synchs on 'Saturday Night Live,' gets totally called out la Milli Vanilli, and no one really cares that much. It doesn't make me hate Ashlee; she's just taking instructions.

Henry Rollins

#26. In a dark time, doors will sometimes magically open and let us step inside to the warmth and light of a community.

Kate DiCamillo

#27. And most importantly, my dearest Jemma, I want you to remember the good times for those are what will keep you alive when all else is lost.

Katlyn Charlesworth

#28. 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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#29. Maybe I spent more time dwelling on emotions than some people, and maybe that's why I ended up writing.

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#30. 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.

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