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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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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'm a bit of a vagabond - a person who loses time and space because you don't know where you are.
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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. 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.
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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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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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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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I think anything that you can't poke fun at is a little too precious.
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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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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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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.
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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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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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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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Everybody's got a dark side, but mine doesn't include being around people who are mean.
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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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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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