Latest Annie E. Clark Quotes from Interviews

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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.

  Annie E. Clark

  Thinking, Long, People

  Source: pitchfork.com

• 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

  Player, Guitar Player

  Source: pitchfork.com

• 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.

  Annie E. Clark

  Morning, Reading, Writing

  Source: pitchfork.com

• 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.

  Annie E. Clark

  Kids, Killers, Tvs

  Source: www.avclub.com

• 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.

  Annie E. Clark

  Shoes, News, Want

  Source: www.avclub.com

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

  Annie E. Clark

  Dark, People, Creative

  Source: www.avclub.com

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

  Annie E. Clark

  Jobs, Mean, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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

  Annie E. Clark

  Mean, Dark, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I'm a bit of a vagabond - a person who loses time and space because you don't know where you are.

  Annie E. Clark

  Space, Vagabonds, Where You Are

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I was a lusty kid who loved Tennessee Williams. Sexy plays. [For musicians] there are so many that it's hard just to say one. Certain things, like the first time you hear A Love Supreme, you're floored. It takes whatever you were listening to and blows a hole in it.

  Annie E. Clark

  Sexy, Kids, Blow

  Source: www.avclub.com

• It's pretty amazing, someone having that kind of charisma - and it still happens in micro and macro forms - to convince a whole gaggle of people to kill themselves. Or put on robes and jump up and down. That takes a very charismatic leader.

  Annie E. Clark

  People, Leader, Kind

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I wanted to give the songs a run for their money, to see if they stood on their own without a lot of accoutrements. It made more sense - and it was easier, too - to go out alone and see if these songs could get in a couple of fistfights and still be standing.

  Annie E. Clark

  Running, Song, Couple

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I think cults are probably a little less scary. To me, it's scarier that 25 people would wear robes and jump up and down and try to convert everyone to happiness than a Kool-Aid suicide.

  Annie E. Clark

  Suicide, Thinking, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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

  Annie E. Clark

  Fun, Thinking, Littles

  Source: www.avclub.com

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

  Annie E. Clark

  Player, Guitar, Chasing

  Source: pitchfork.com

• I'm first and foremost a guitar player. I've been playing since I was 12, which is over half of my life.

  Annie E. Clark

  Player, Guitar, Half

  Source: pitchfork.com

• 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.

  Annie E. Clark

  Expression, Cds, Long

  Source: pitchfork.com

• I do love the ceremony of putting on a record but I don't have space for a vinyl collection.

  Annie E. Clark

  Space, Records, Vinyl

  Source: pitchfork.com

• I think one thing people forget is that every technological advance we fetishize had its place in time.

  Annie E. Clark

  Thinking, People, Forget

  Source: pitchfork.com

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

  Annie E. Clark

  Art, Technology, Different

  Source: pitchfork.com

• 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.

  Annie E. Clark

  Mp3, Data, Sound

  Source: pitchfork.com

• 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!"

  Annie E. Clark

  Jobs, People, Crowds

  Source: pitchfork.com

• 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.

  Annie E. Clark

  Play, Lucky, Way

  Source: pitchfork.com

• 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.

  Annie E. Clark

  Song, Powerful, Moments

  Source: pitchfork.com

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

  Annie E. Clark

  Song, Views, May

  Source: pitchfork.com