Iris DeMent quotes

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. (Iris DeMent)

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

Iris DeMent

I don't describe myself as a Christian or religious, but I like to think that how I live my life is honest.

Iris DeMent

Maybe I spent more time dwelling on emotions than some people, and maybe that's why I ended up writing.

Iris DeMent

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.

Iris DeMent

I've got no time to look back, I've got no time to see The pieces of my heart that have been ripped away from me. And if the feeling starts to coming, I've learned to stop 'em fast Because I don't know, if I let 'em go, they might not wanna pass. And there's just so many people trying to get me on the phone And there's bills to pay, and songs to play And a house to make a home. I guess I'm older now and I've got no time to cry.

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And you know the sun's settin' fast And just like they say nothing good ever lasts. Well, go on now and kiss it goodbye but hold on to your lover. 'Cause your heart's bound to die. Go on now and say goodbye to our town, to our town. Can't you see the sun's settin' down on our town, on our town? Goodnight.

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My life, it don't count for nothing; When I look at this world, I feel so small. My life, it's only a season: A passing September that no one will recall.

Iris DeMent

Far away I've travelled To stand once more alone. And hear my memories echo Through these hills that I call home. As a child I roamed this valley, I watched the seasons come and go. I spent many hours dreaming On these hills that I call home.

Iris DeMent

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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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. (Iris DeMent)

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.

Iris DeMent

I was mainly influenced by the Carter Family, Jimmie Rodgers, Loretta Lynn, Merle Haggard, and others like Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash.

Iris DeMent

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.

Iris DeMent

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

Iris DeMent

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

Iris DeMent

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

Iris DeMent

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.

Iris DeMent

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

Iris DeMent

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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I honestly don't listen to a lot of music - I spend so much time working at my own music. (Iris DeMent)

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

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Everybody's wonderin' what and where they all came from. Everybody's worryin' 'bout where they're gonna go When the whole thing's done. But no one knows for certain And so it's all the same to me. I think I'll just let the mystery be.

Iris DeMent

Some say once gone you're gone forever And some say you're going to come back. Some say you rest in the arms of the Saviour If in sinful ways you lack. Some say that they're coming back in a garden, Bunch of carrots and little sweet peas. I think I'll just let the mystery be.

Iris DeMent

Sweet is the melody, so hard to come by, It's so hard to make every note bend just right. You lay down the hours and leave not one trace But a tune for the dancing is there in it's place.

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Iris DeMent

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Occupation: American Singer
Born: January 5, 1961
Quotes count: 26
Wikipedia: Iris DeMent

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