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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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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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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'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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Everybody's got a dark side, but mine doesn't include being around people who are mean.
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I have a lot of guitar heroes I guess, some of them are female and some of them are male. Robert Fripp is one of them, and Marc Ribot, that's another guitar hero.
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Music is kind of a strange business, and it's too weird of a job to have mean, conniving people around.
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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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It's pretty amazing, someone having that kind of charisma - and it still happens in micro and macro forms - to convince a whole gaggle of people to kill themselves. Or put on robes and jump up and down. That takes a very charismatic leader.
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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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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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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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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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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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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 think one thing people forget is that every technological advance we fetishize had its place in time.
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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 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 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 wanted to give the songs a run for their money, to see if they stood on their own without a lot of accoutrements. It made more sense - and it was easier, too - to go out alone and see if these songs could get in a couple of fistfights and still be standing.
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I was like the roadie, I was carrying gear, checking things in at airports, making sure they had flowers backstage and interfacing with promoters who were sometimes really nice and sometimes a little seedy. It was a great apprenticeship, to be in the music industry.
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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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