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I usually have an idea of how I want a song to sound, but I don't always know how to get there
Lucinda Williams
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Lucinda Williams
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: January 26
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Singer-Songwriter
Lake Charles
Louisiana
Lucinda Gayl Williams
Lucinda Gayle Williams
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I'm always writing ideas down and then I stick em in my pocket and put em in that folder so I don't lose them. Like, somebody might say something, and I'll go, oh that's a good line, and that goes in the folder, too. It's kind of an ongoing process for me.
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I'm pretty much the same person I was 20 years ago. My politics haven't changed. I have the same feeling of idealism. But I am a little bit wiser and more experienced.
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As it turns out, now is the moment you've been waiting for
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You can't really praise somebody's work and then criticize the process.
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Sometimes I feel like I just open myself up like I'm a vehicle for something coming through me. It's like a meditative state I have to be in.
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I write the songs, go in and record them, then I listen to everything and decide how it all fits together.
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What I do as a songwriter is a constant force in my life, that I'm grateful to have.
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First thing, I throw on some jeans, a T-shirt and my Keds sneakers and make coffee. That is actually my favorite time of day. That is when I do my songwriting, when I am in writing mode.
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I mean, whose songs don't focus on tragedy and loss?
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What seems conceit, bad manners or cynicism is always a sign of things no ear have heard, no eyes have seen. You do not know what wars are going on down there where the spirit meets the bone.
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I love Emmylou Harris's version of my song, 'Sweet Old World.' Her intonation is great.
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It's always been hard for me to do without sounding precious or too corny or whatever.
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I started writing songs, I guess, when I was about 13 or 14, but I didn't know if they were good enough yet or anything.
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I am trying to get right with God. I'm sort of making a statement about the excessiveness.
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The thing about Alzheimer's is that it's... it's sort of like all these little, small deaths along the way, before they actually physically die.
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The perfect man? A poet on a motorcycle.
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It's just the more you do it the better you get, or at least that's how I feel in my case. I think it's a combination of confidence and just having done it this long and just learning. I'm always learning. I'm still honing my craft.
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I write first for myself as a therapeutic process, to get stuff out and to deal with it.
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When the muse hits me, or the mood, or whatever it is, I get my guitar out and I empty it out. I just start going through things to see what's going to happen.
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