Annie E. Clark Quotes

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I don't even wanna say female guitar-players, just guitar-players, because music of all things doesn't need to be gendered and stratified, that's so boring.

Annie E. Clark

Player, Guitar, Female

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I think anything that you can't poke fun at is a little too precious.

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Fun, Thinking, Littles

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For a brief moment, I considered deconstructing the song and going down a cerebral road, but then I realized it would kill what is most powerful about it.

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Song, Powerful, Moments

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What I did with my first records was, my writing process was that I didn't touch any instruments to write it, so I was making it all on the computer, and really the arrangements were coming first, the intricate thing.

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Writing, Records, Firsts

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An mp3 is a compressed form of data. It's not the full spectrum. It's never going to sound as good as a record. I think one thing people forget is that every technological advance we fetishize had its place in time. CDs are usually an hour long because that's the amount a CD could hold - not because that's the optimal amount of time for any given musical expression. Side one and side two? That's a product of vinyl. But that's not necessarily dramatic form - you could argue that that was three acts.

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Thinking, Long, People

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I think every time I play, every show is different, and I think that at a certain point a song isn't about you anymore. It's about the audience, it's about how the song has worked its way into other people's lives and that kind of keeps the meaning of the song new, because you see it reflected in other people every night.

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Song, Night, Thinking

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I had brief glimpses of emotional catharsis while writing. I remember reading something Philip Roth wrote about how he writes every single day, but it's almost as if he has amnesia every morning - he has almost zero confidence that anything will come but he just sits down and plugs away. And at the end of the day it feels like a miracle: "How did I do that?" I had a similar experience where it was just about putting in the hours and being present.

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Morning, Reading, Writing

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I have a lot of guitar heroes I guess, some of them are female and some of them are male. Robert Fripp is one of them, and Marc Ribot, that's another guitar hero.

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Hero, Guitar, Males

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I have the weirdest job. It's not every day that you get to stand up onstage and unload every ounce of your misanthropic bile onto a crowd of people, and they're like, "Cool! Hit us again!"

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Jobs, People, Crowds

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I wouldn't say I'm a very technical [guitar] player. I'm more intuitive - it's always more about chasing an abstraction.

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Player, Guitar, Chasing

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Putting your ego aside and confronting your weaknesses and just letting things happen is hard. Not to use a Scientology term, but it's difficult to do an emotional or an artistic audit.

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Emotional, Ego, Weakness

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All these things that we are very nostalgic for come from a place of technology dictating [art]. This time and place is no different.

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Art, Technology, Different

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I'm first and foremost a guitar player. I've been playing since I was 12, which is over half of my life. I like the physicality of it; you can strangle it or make it sing. I wouldn't say I'm a very technical player, though. I'm more intuitive - it's always more about chasing an abstraction.

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Player, Guitar Player

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An mp3 is a compressed form of data. It's not the full spectrum. It's never going to sound as good as a record.

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Mp3, Data, Sound

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I know that, physically, I'm a very demure-looking person. But I certainly have as much aggression or anger as the next person, and that's got to come out somehow. I'm lucky that I get to play music, and that it's not going to come out in some totally destructive way.

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Play, Lucky, Way

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I got offstage and was just looking at my hands, and they were shaking. I was like, 'I wanna kill someone! What's happening?'

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Hands, Happenings, Shaking

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There's always something extremely personal in the songs, but I may change the point of view from what I actually experienced.

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Song, Views, May

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The most important thing is setting up these directives for yourself. Like, "I'm only going to use these three colors - go!" That's why Einstein wore the same thing every day; you don't want to have to reinvent the wheel every morning.

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Morning, Color, Important

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I'd listen to things that felt really good in the moment and realize they were clouded by enthusiasm or caffeine. And things that I was struggling to get out ended up being really compelling. It's an emotional roller coaster; there's exhilaration and there's shame.

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Struggle, Emotional, Being Real

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With the first kid, you micromanage it, making sure there's no hair out of place when it goes off to school. But by the third kid, it's more like, "Oh, you want to wear a splatter-painted, Hard Rock Café T-shirt for seven days in a row and not brush your hair? Go for it. Be who you want to be."

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School, Kids, Hair

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I have a phobia of checking voicemail. I watched a lot of TV as a kid, and everything is, like, you're gonna get kidnapped, or somebody's gonna die, or killer bees are going to take you out. I'm a very anxious person.

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Kids, Killers, Tvs

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Checking voicemail is like, "When's the other shoe going to drop?" I'm always afraid it's going to be terrible news I don't want to hear.

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Shoes, News, Want

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I like to deal with my dark side in a creative way, and just sing about killing people instead of actually doing it.

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Dark, People, Creative

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Everybody's got a dark side, but mine doesn't include being around people who are mean.

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Mean, Dark, People

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Music is kind of a strange business, and it's too weird of a job to have mean, conniving people around.

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Jobs, Mean, People

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"I'm first and foremost a guitar player. I've been playing since I was 12, which is over half of my life. I like the physicality of it; you can strangle it or make it sing. I wouldn't say I'm a very technical player, though. I'm more intuitive - it's always more about chasing an abstraction."

- Annie E. Clark,

pitchfork.com, added Nov 12, 2017

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