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• I don't think, that all my stuff could've been records. Some, maybe. The ones that I really wanted to be records, those are the ones that are going into the box.

  Ryan Adams

  Thinking, Records, Stuff

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. June 28, 2007.

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• For me, a record is valid when I actually hold the vinyl. Like, I've worked on the art for a while and I see the vinyl and I go "Ooh, it's an actual LP. How cool is that?" That's very sacred to me. You can't take that back, you know?

  Ryan Adams

  Art, Records, Sacred

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. June 28, 2007.

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• I'm actually a pretty upbeat person outside of playing music.

  Ryan Adams

  Playing Music, Upbeat, Persons

  "Ryan Adams Gets the Hell Outta Whiskeytown". Interview with Richard Skanse, www.rollingstone.com. September 14, 2000.

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• Words may move, but they're never moving fast enough.

  Ryan Adams

  Moving, May, Enough

  "Song: 'English Girls Approximately' ('Love Is Hell')". 2004.

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• Caitlin Cary and I were always talking about X when we talked about whiskeytown, before it became an actual band. We like the concept of there being no real front person in X, yet this kind of switch up of vocals and really their sheer power, and their ability to sort of bastardise punk rock and midwetsren rock and even country into their own sound.

  Ryan Adams

  Country, Real, Rocks

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• It's hard to be bipolar and bicoastal at the same time.

  Ryan Adams

  Bipolar, Hard

  "Alt-country crooner is charmingly glum". Interview with Aidin Vaziri, www.sfgate.com. October 20, 2002.

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• Do you remember stormy winter?Well button up your coat, one's comin' soon

  Ryan Adams

  Winter, Buttons, Coats

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• I'm a big music fan outside of the music I make.

  Ryan Adams

  Fans, Bigs, Music Fans

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. June 28, 2007.

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• You can imagine several scenes from Star Wars? The way they looked? For me, that's how music is. Sometimes I'll be developing riffs for songs, just while I'm sitting around and not playing.

  Ryan Adams

  Song, Stars, War

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. June 28, 2007.

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• It's really very easy for me to be in The Cardinals, because I bring my voice, my guitar, and my songs to them, and then we all play around to find out what works.

  Ryan Adams

  Song, Guitar, Play

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. June 28, 2007.

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• My intentions have been, and are always, to just really get behind what my ideas are musically and to just ride this thing out, cause it feels good, and I think for the most part it's good music. Even when it's not, I'd like to still search for something that could be even like a little bit mind-blowing or shocking to me.

  Ryan Adams

  Thinking, Ideas, Feel Good

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I've gotten to a place where I still love to play and sing, but I don't have any ego agenda left, outside of just wanting to stay in a creative place and play music. I much prefer to sing for somebody else, and to somebody else.

  Ryan Adams

  Play, Creative, Ego

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I was a nervous young man. I wanted to do so many things. And I was so enthusiastic and earnestly in love with so many things that I tried too hard. I tried really, really hard. And I made a lot of mistakes. I was afraid of a lot of stuff. And I kind of feel bad for that person I was.

  Ryan Adams

  Mistake, Men, Stuff

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I think it would be wrong to consider 'Ashes and Fire' a love album. The record is obsessed with time. I believe that there is a kinder view of the self on this record.

  Ryan Adams

  Believe, Thinking, Fire

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I think I've been incredibly raw my whole career. A lot of people spend a lot of time trying to look cool and spend time being guarded and putting up walls. I just never had the time. It seems more honest to say, 'Hey, this is who I am.'

  Ryan Adams

  Wall, Thinking, Who I Am

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Collaboration has become really integral to my process. I play music so that I can spend time with my friends and communicate in that way. I experience so much joy in that process, because, you know, it's those times of getting together and playing music and all that comes with it that are the best for me.

  Ryan Adams

  Play, Joy, Together

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. June 28, 2007.

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• Music is my thing. It's my thing; it's what I love. It's what I do. It's football to me; it's Christmas to me; religion to me; poetry to me.

  Ryan Adams

  Football, Music Is

  Interview with Steven Hyden, www.avclub.com. October 18, 2011.

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• I think that we live in a time where it's easier to be suspicious of dedicated men and women, people dedicated to their craft, because the world around them inspires them to be lazy. It inspires them to be negative. It inspires them to be snarky.

  Ryan Adams

  Men, Thinking, People

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I have found in black metal the lyrics are profoundly beautiful... a pathos and mythos at the same time.

  Ryan Adams

  Beautiful, Black, Found

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If I had a reed made of lightening I could blow the sax all night... I don't know where one would acquire a reed made of lightening but I would imagine that Bill Clinton has one.

  Ryan Adams

  Blow, Night, Bills

  Live performance at Chicago Theater, September 29, 2007.

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• It's like — I don't know, sometimes it's like chasing a pretty girl on the beach. And things I never thought I could do... I can do.

  Ryan Adams

  Girl, Beach, Sometimes

  "MySpace - Easy, Tiger Description". Interview with Stephen King, May 2007.

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• I'm sort of planting Post-It notes all over my psyche. Do not skateboard wasted. Do not buy $10,000 rugs. Be careful what you say to journalists. You don't have to stay up until 7 A.M. - tomorrow is a new day.

  Ryan Adams

  New Day, Tomorrow, Notes

  Blender, December 2003.

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• Part of the joy of music is listening to lots of different kinds of music and learning from it. Specifically for me, I like writing songs that move me, and what moves me are beautiful songs on the piano or the guitar and really, really heavy music.

  Ryan Adams

  Beautiful, Song, Moving

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There definitely isn't a structure anymore to how I get ideas. A lot of times I'll just write down a phrase, or I'll have an idea that's attached to just a few chords. Other times, it's work.

  Ryan Adams

  Writing, Ideas, Phrases

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I got on the phone with the president of my label and I said, "Obviously, I write songs in a lot of styles and play a lot of different kinds of music. We're getting toward the end of our business collaboration. If you could envision a record that you wanted to hear from me, what kind of record would it be?" It wasn't like asking him to fill an order, it was really just a conversation. For all the things I'd ever asked him, this was one thing I'd never asked, and I don't know why. So I was curious. And the thing that he was most interested in hearing was a solo record.

  Ryan Adams

  Song, Writing, Order

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. June 28, 2007.

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