Annie E. Clark Quotes
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.
Quotes to Explore
-
Those who condemn gay marriage, yet are silent or indifferent to the breakdown of marriage and divorce, are, in my view, missing the real issue.
-
Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.
-
Purgatory fire will be more intolerable than all the torments that can be felt or conceived in this life.
-
Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
-
A true heiress is never mean to anyone - except a girl who steals your boyfriend.
-
Focus on remedies, not faults.
-
When you live in L.A., it is easy to stay fit, as the weather is amazing.
-
When an individual is protesting society's refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest confers dignity on him.
-
It kills me to lose. If I'm a troublemaker, and I don't think that my temper makes me one, then it's because I can't stand losing. That's the way I am about winning, all I ever wanted to do was finish first.
-
I live in England, so I take a lot of trains, and you can't really go anywhere without somebody talking on their mobile phone behind you, forcing you to listen to their conversation. With the Internet, with texting, with networking sites, there's already information everywhere.
-
When I was about nine years old, I announced to my mother that I was going to cook Thanksgiving dinner. And I went to the library and got this whole pile of books. I'd love to say it all turned out great. It didn't. But, sort of, from that point on, whenever there was serious cooking at home, I was the one who did it.
-
Cuba never had advisors in Vietnam. The military there knew very well how to conduct their war.
-
I always had a fascination with twins.
-
Tell a man that he is putting on a stage performance in order to get what he wants, and he will irritably reject your observation. Why? Because most people go through life as cunning actors with a permanent horror of getting found out.
-
I drive a big Dodge truck. I drive American cars.
-
I don't want to think that anything is off limits for me to write about, but I also don't want to intrude on anybody's life, which is why there's very little specificity or names in the songs I write.
-
English, as a subject, never really got over its upstart nature. It tries to bulk itself up with hopeless jargon and specious complexity, tries to imitate subjects it can never be.
-
I think there is room out there to show the grace and dignity of women like Laura Bush.
-
During the Spanish conquest of Mesoamerica in the 16th century, the Catholic Church's Friar Diego de Landa supervised the burning of hundreds of Maya codices - fig-bark books rich in mythological and astronomical information. Only four Maya codices are known to have survived.
-
I have a thick skin, which comes from being a not-really-skinny, dark-skinned Indian woman. I haven’t fit in every place, and so I’m kind of used to resistance.
-
Writing music on your own makes you think a lot about your life. Who are you? Would you change anything about yourself? This is where it comes from.
-
I write my music to minister to myself. I have enough sin and enough shortcomings and enough need in my own life that I don't need to write to evangelize to the "masses." But if someone else can hear my music and relate to it with the same need that I do, then I give God the glory for that.
-
I can give you a six-word formula for success: Think things through - then follow through.
-
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.
