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Brief about Iris Dement: By info that we know Iris Dement was born at 1961-01-05. And also Iris Dement is American Musician.

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And I've been walking 'round with memories way too long.

Tags: Memories, Round, Walking

I don't describe myself as a Christian or religious, but I like to think that how I live my life is honest.

Tags: Christian, Honest, Life

Maybe I spent more time dwelling on emotions than some people, and maybe that's why I ended up writing.

Tags: Time, Why, Writing

For a long time I was interested in being a social worker. In a lot of ways I feel that that's all my music is, trying to help people.

Tags: Help, Music, Time

I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.

Tags: Able, Anybody, Else

I honestly don't listen to a lot of music - I spend so much time working at my own music.

Tags: Music, Time, Working

I never set out to write songs about the world around me... it just kind of came about as a result of paying more attention to things.

Tags: Attention, Result, Write

I was mainly influenced by the Carter Family, Jimmie Rodgers, Loretta Lynn, Merle Haggard, and others like Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash.

Tags: Family, Influenced, Others

I've always been aware of having feelings that were pretty intense at times. I imagine most people have had that, or they wouldn't be human.

Tags: Feelings, Human, Pretty

I've always written about things that cause me to feel something.

Tags: Cause, Written

If something bothers me, it bothers me for a long time until I find a way to work it out. Music provided me with a means of working things out.

Tags: Music, Time, Work

Making the record was tons of fun, the most fun I've ever had.

Tags: Fun, Making, Tons

Most of the music you hear on the radio today is developed for making money. It doesn't feel true or honest. You can feel it in the music.

Tags: Money, Music, Today

My guitar is really tempermental. I don't give up on it though, I'm close to my guitar!

Tags: Give, Guitar, Though

Some guy refuses to fight and we call that the sin, but he's standing up for what he believes in and that seems pretty damned American to me.

Tags: American, Fight, Pretty

This is how it has been since time began: If you want to make something really worthwhile and true, then you have to suffer for it.

Tags: Since, Time, True

Turn off the TV and start digging around for information that's not from a corporation trying to make money.

Tags: Money, Start, Trying

Writing, overall, has never been what I'd call fun. It's fulfilling. It doesn't come real easy for me.

Tags: Fun, Real, Writing

Vengeance is not the point; change is. But the trouble is that in most people's minds the thought of victory and the thought of punishing the enemy coincide.

Tags: Change, Enemy, Thought

The longer we listen to one another - with real attention - the more commonality we will find in all our lives. That is, if we are careful to exchange with one another life stories and not simply opinions.

Tags: Another, Life, Real
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