Iris DeMent Quotes

• And I’ve been walking ’round with memories way too long.

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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 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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• I don’t know what other people are like, I haven’t been able to crawl inside anybody else.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I’ve always written about things that cause me to feel something.

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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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• Making the record was tons of fun, the most fun I’ve ever had.

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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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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Iris DeMent (18)

Birth:	5th January, 1961
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Lyricist, Singer

About

Iris Luella DeMent was born in Paragould, Arkansas, USA. She is an American singer and songwriter. Her musical style includes elements of the country and folk music genres. Her albums list shown below: Infamous Angel, My Life(Nominated- Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Folk Album), The Way I Should, Lifeline, Sing the Delta, and The Trackless Woods. Her songs list shown below: "Let the Mystery Be", "Wasteland of the Free", "He Reached Down", "Our Town", "Sing The Delta", "Sweet Is The Melody", "No Time to Cry", and "Listening to Singing".

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