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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.
Annie E. Clark
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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'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.
Annie E. Clark
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'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 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 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.
Annie E. Clark
I think one thing people forget is that every technological advance we fetishize had its place in time.
Annie E. Clark
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 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.
Annie E. Clark
I have a phobia of checking voicemail. I watched a lot of TV as a kid, and everything is, like, you're gonna get kidnapped, or somebody's gonna die, or killer bees are going to take you out. I'm a very anxious person.
Annie E. Clark
Music is kind of a strange business, and it's too weird of a job to have mean, conniving people around.
Annie E. Clark
I'm first and foremost a guitar player. I've been playing since I was 12, which is over half of my life.
Annie E. Clark
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.
Annie E. Clark
I think every time I play, every show is different, and I think that at a certain point a song isn't about you anymore. It's about the audience, it's about how the song has worked its way into other people's lives and that kind of keeps the meaning of the song new, because you see it reflected in other people every night.
Annie E. Clark
I do love the ceremony of putting on a record but I don't have space for a vinyl collection.
Annie E. Clark
The most important thing is setting up these directives for yourself. Like, I'm only going to use these three colors - go! That's why Einstein wore the same thing every day you don't want to have to reinvent the wheel every morning.
Annie E. Clark
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.
Annie E. Clark
All these things that we are very nostalgic for come from a place of technology dictating [art]. This time and place is no different.
Annie E. Clark
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.
Annie E. Clark
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.
Annie E. Clark
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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