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I can sort of will that stuff...

I can sort of will that stuff to happen to me if I put myself in the right headspace. Then I can actually get to a space where it won't just be one song that comes through, but a series of them.

Ryan Adams 87 quotes

It was never my first choice ...

It was never my first choice to be a singer/guitar player. I really wanted to play drums.

Ryan Adams 87 quotes

I think that music, or at lea...

I think that music, or at least the kind of music that I make, benefits greatly from improvisation.

Ryan Adams 87 quotes

Caitlin Cary and I were alway...

Caitlin Cary and I were always talking about X when we talked about whiskeytown, before it became an actual band. We like the concept of there being no real front person in X, yet this kind of switch up of vocals and really their sheer power, and their ability to sort of bastardise punk rock and midwetsren rock and even country into their own sound.

Ryan Adams 87 quotes

I should've died a hundred th...

I should've died a hundred thousand times,Teetering stoned off the side of a building.Nobody loved me and nobody even triedYou can't hang on to something that won't stop moving.Singing and dancing to them nighttime songs.

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I'm definitely in the market ...

I'm definitely in the market for being uncool. There was some funny stuff, like the thing about making sure I show people that I have tattoos and cigarettes so that they know I'm badass. But really, I do have tattoos! And I do smoke cigarettes sometimes, and I can't change that. But I am not badass, by any means. I do some stuff that's tongue-in-cheek, and some stuff that's on the line. And it could be funny, it could be serious, and I never even know myself, because it could be funny that day, and the next day it's totally embarrassing.

Ryan Adams 87 quotes

You can imagine several scene...

You can imagine several scenes from Star Wars? The way they looked? For me, that's how music is. Sometimes I'll be developing riffs for songs, just while I'm sitting around and not playing.

Ryan Adams 87 quotes

Some people want to go foreve...

Some people want to go forever, I just want to burn off hard and bright.

Ryan Adams 87 quotes

A lot of the songs I write ar...

A lot of the songs I write are like songs that I've never been able to find on any record, but that I've always wanted to hear. Or maybe in a style I already loved, but I was looking for something in it that I wasn't hearing yet.

Ryan Adams 87 quotes

While you can fill every hear...

While you can fill every heart as your own full of laughter loud as gold and passion quick as silver.

Ryan Adams 87 quotes

I kiss her mouth and I know.....

I kiss her mouth and I know... for everything there is a word... for everything but this.

Ryan Adams 87 quotes

Most of my songs are pretty s...

Most of my songs are pretty sketchy. There's not a lot of bass sections. I don't write big bridges. Sometimes I'll try. But it's hard for me to focus that way, because I always think it's more interesting to just see what will happen next.

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Being a human being is lost. ...

Being a human being is lost. For 120 shows, the one that goes bad is the one that people will talk about.

Ryan Adams 87 quotes

I like the idea that within t...

I like the idea that within the structure of the song, some kind of built-in improvisation keeps them fragile and in their moment, so that I'm not projecting so much, so that my perception of the song doesn't interfere with what its real body is. Sometimes it's like telling a story that I heard in passing, and I don't want it to become completely mine.

Ryan Adams 87 quotes

It sounds like I'm channeling...

It sounds like I'm channeling or something, and I don't really fully understand what it is. I'll get a piece of paper and write down what I think is coming to me. And I'll play it once. Whether it's being recorded or not, I can then usually remember it for a sometimes shocking amount of time.

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I quit drinking every night, ...

I quit drinking every night, at 1:30 A.M.

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The weirdest thing I've been ...

The weirdest thing I've been fascinated with nowadays is the new contemporary country music, which to me sounds like very strange '70s pop, and sometimes like rock music. But some of the themes in there - maybe it's because I know how the songs were written, but it really does sound like it was written by two or three people, with the idea to appeal to the most general audience.

Ryan Adams 87 quotes

What I love most in life happ...

What I love most in life happens to be the very thing that I do day-to-day, as my work. What would be my hobby, you know, happens to be my actual job. So I'm very lucky. Even if I didn't want to do as much work as I do, I'd still feel compelled to, because I so longed to be a full-time artist, and since I've been given that opportunity, I'd never want to let down the gift.

Ryan Adams 87 quotes

To conceive music, to execute...

To conceive music, to execute it in front of others, to make it so others can do it...it can be pretty humbling, and kind of scary. So yeah, I don't really feel in competition with anybody. Not because I feel elitist, but because I have enough self-competition. I'm always struggling.

Ryan Adams 87 quotes

I'm a pretty bad troubadour. ...

I'm a pretty bad troubadour. I'm more of a music fan who got away with making records.

Ryan Adams 87 quotes

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