Lucinda Williams Quotes - Page 3

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• You can't really praise somebody's work and then criticize the process.

  Lucinda Williams

  Work, Praise, Process

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• I'm dealing with things as they come along, and I'm talking about it

  Lucinda Williams

  Talking

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• I usually have an idea of how I want a song to sound, but I don't always know how to get there

  Lucinda Williams

  Song, Ideas, Sound

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• I've had trouble being in relationships and writing. This has been a real problem for me. I don't know if it's because I'm not free to fantasize or create these fantasy things about other people

  Lucinda Williams

  Real, Writing, People

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• I grew up in a very literate, very independent household where people spoke their ideas and were very supportive of helping each other find their own way

  Lucinda Williams

  Independent, Ideas, People

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• I was immediately taken with Geoff Muldaur's rich soulful voice, masterful phrasing and guitar playing when I first heard him.

  Lucinda Williams

  Taken, Guitar, Voice

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• I started writing songs, I guess, when I was about 13 or 14, but I didn't know if they were good enough yet or anything.

  Lucinda Williams

  Song, Writing, Good Enough

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• Above all, the listener should be able to understand the poem or the song, not be forced to unravel a complicated, self-indulgent puzzle. Offer your art up to the whole world, not just an elite few.

  Lucinda Williams

  Song, Art, Self

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• RB Morris is the greatest unknown singer-songwrit er in the US.

  Lucinda Williams

  Singers, Morris

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• Offer your art up to the whole world, not just an elite few.

  Lucinda Williams

  Art, World, Offers

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• I started writing more with my voice in mind.

  Lucinda Williams

  Writing, Voice, Mind

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• I can speak for most songwriters - those breakup love songs are so easy to write, as far as the inspiration and all that.

  Lucinda Williams

  Breakup, Song, Inspiration

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• What seems conceit, bad manners or cynicism is always a sign of things no ear have heard, no eyes have seen. You do not know what wars are going on down there where the spirit meets the bone.

  Lucinda Williams

  War, Eye, Ears

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• I am trying to get right with God. I'm sort of making a statement about the excessiveness.

  Lucinda Williams

  Trying, Excessiveness, Statements

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• Sometimes I feel like I just open myself up like I'm a vehicle for something coming through me. It's like a meditative state I have to be in.

  Lucinda Williams

  Sometimes, States, Vehicle

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• There's always stuff to write about. So it's very gratifying on a lot of levels. This is stuff I got asked over and over again, or heard about. People would ask me about it, but they kind of knew the answer. It would be this ongoing question: "Your fans are wondering, now that you're married, are you still going to be able to write songs?" I'm serious! I would get asked that!

  Lucinda Williams

  Song, Writing, People

  Source: music.avclub.com

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• It's always been hard for me to do without sounding precious or too corny or whatever.

  Lucinda Williams

  Corny

  Source: music.avclub.com

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• I don't want to beat people over the head with my political views. It's more about the humanitarian aspect of it.

  Lucinda Williams

  People, Political, Humanitarian

  Source: music.avclub.com

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• There's this whole idea that you've got the blues and you're going to write. Bullshit. When I feel really bad, all I want to do is sit in front of the TV with the remote control and check out.

  Lucinda Williams

  Writing, Ideas, Bullshit

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• I think in the world of rock music or whatever it's called - anything outside of Nashville - there's a lot more freedom within that industry to do whatever you want to do.

  Lucinda Williams

  Thinking, Rocks, Nashville

  "An Interview with Lucinda Williams". The Believer Magazine, Issue Ninety-One, believermag.com. July 1, 2012.

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• I don't mean to complain. I wouldn't trade my life for anything.

  Lucinda Williams

  Mean, Complaining, Trade

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• I write the songs, go in and record them, then I listen to everything and decide how it all fits together.

  Lucinda Williams

  Song, Writing, Together

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. March 10, 2011.

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• Sometimes I dream song ideas. I write a song in my dream, the melody and everything. But then sometimes I can't remember them. I think later on, I probably do.

  Lucinda Williams

  Dream, Song, Writing

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I usually don't write about my life right when it happens. I process it, and I store it away. Then, when I get in the mood I pull the stuff back out.

  Lucinda Williams

  Writing, Stuff, Mood

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I'm always writing ideas down and then I stick em in my pocket and put em in that folder so I don't lose them. Like, somebody might say something, and I'll go, oh that's a good line, and that goes in the folder, too. It's kind of an ongoing process for me.

  Lucinda Williams

  Writing, Ideas, Pockets

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