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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.

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Annie E. Clark
Age: 35
Born: 1989
Born: July 15
Civil Rights Advocate
Raleigh
North Carolina
Annie E. Clark | Annie Clark
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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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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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Everybody's got a dark side, but mine doesn't include being around people who are mean.
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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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I'm first and foremost a guitar player. I've been playing since I was 12, which is over half of my life.
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I think anything that you can't poke fun at is a little too precious.
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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.
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I think one thing people forget is that every technological advance we fetishize had its place in time.
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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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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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The schematics are a little bit tricky, but once you get it down you're able to really program an entire show. Every song has a lot of different guitar sounds in it, so that's what it is.
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I just think that the question of women in rock or women playing guitar, I just think it's such a non-issue, and I think that probably the sooner critics and press outlets can just erase the 'what's it like being a women in rock?' question from their vocabulary, the better off everyone will be.
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Every part of every song can have a totally different musical sound, because otherwise if I wanted to go from a verse of one song to the chorus of another, I'd have to go: Uh, okay, press that pedal and then... press that pedal, and then press that pedal off.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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