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While Jesus is saving, I'm spending all my daysin backgrounds and landscapes with the languages of saints.While people are spinning like toys on Christmas day,I'm inside a still life with the other absentee.

St. Vincent

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St. Vincent
Age: 42
Born: 1982
Born: September 28
Composer
Guitarist
Multi-Instrumentalist
Musician
Recording Artist
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Tulsa
Oklahoma
Annie Erin Clark
Anne Erin Annie Clark
Anne Erin Clark
Annie Clark
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Still
Saving
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No matter what others say or do, even if the wicked succeed, do not be troubled: commit everything to God and put your trust in him.
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I think a lot of people who want to be musicians terrify their parents because they don't have a living example of it in their families, and I did. So I always knew that it was possible.
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I think human beings have a really broad spectrum of traits, and I almost feel implicated when we say, 'Men are like this, women are like this.' Nobody was telling me, 'Don't get dirty, don't play in the mud, girls don't do that.'
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I'm unqualified to do anything other than music.
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Well, I've been recording myself on a computer since I was about 13 or 14. So it's completely entwined with my creative process. Essentially, it allows you to make music that's better and smarter than you are, by using your ears to lead the way.
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In regards to being a fashion aficionado, there's a certain amount of taking yourself seriously in the professional world. The self-effacing person can't completely go down the serious road. But I design, and love when things are beautiful.
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Musically, I have more things in common with tons of bands that have no female members.
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I wish I had a gentle mind and a spine made up of iron.
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Let us love God my brothers, let us love God. But let it be with the strength of our arms and the sweat of our brow.
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I've always been pretty ravenous about pop culture, highbrow and lowbrow.
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I've been watching a lot of Joan Didion interviews on YouTube. I love her. My drummer has gotten me into looking at Terence McKenna interviews.
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Go to the poor there you will find God.
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My dad used to love Steely Dan, the Stones, Jethro Tull and all that. There was always Steely Dan going in my dad's car, but I remember The Royal Scam in particular because it has 'Kid Charlemagne' on it.
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I guess trying to throw my body into the guitar is so natural for me that I don't even know how to explain it. I can't imagine life without it.
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I grew up around a lot of various religions, so it's a part of my consciousness in a way. Everything from heavy Catholicism to followers of Indian spiritual masters to Unitarian universalists - all in one family. Though the family aspect was stronger than any particular dogma.
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Leaden trumpets spit the soot of power they sayI'm on your side when nobody is, cause nobody is.Come sit right here and sleep while I slip poison in your ear
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I only listen to my own music when I'm playing an hour-and-half set each night. I don't put it on recreationally.
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I think in some ways, it can do a listener a disservice to explain a song. I think I'd rather leave a little room for people to put themselves in it.
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I remember looking at the sky and thinking that the universe is so big and it's all chaos. I call it 'the dark fear.' At any moment, the dark fear could come in.
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I've been so entwined with technology since I was about 15, recording myself and multitracking and producing things on my own.
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