American - Musician | March 11, 1962 -
People in Ireland take in the whole song. After a long history of great singers and songwriters and poets, they are able to consume the entire song - not just the external; they go inside.
Mary Gauthier
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Songs have been my greatest teachers and continue to be really important in my life.
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I got issues. Boy, have I got issues.
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I guess I find it easier to talk when I have a guitar in front of me.
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I knew I had that Cajun heritage, that Acadian heritage; I just feel it. And my gut says Irish on the other side. Irish and French, that's what I feel. When you're young, it doesn't matter so much, but as you get older, I would suspect part of the ageing process is to wonder about your ancestors - who were they? What were their lives like?
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If I start tracing, I bet I will find a writer in my family tree.
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I don't really write for catharsis; I get that kind of work done in therapy.
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I've come to terms with the fact that I'll probably be in therapy all of my life.
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I think Bob Dylan showed us that songs can rise to the level of literature, and he proved it over and over again. That's why they keep trying to get him a Nobel Prize for literature: because there is no Nobel Prize for songwriting.
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I think we're very much in a mystery here in this life and that artists try to pierce the mystery with their art.
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I write to make some sense of things that confuse me. The mechanics of my own heart are the most confusing I know about - and don't know about - and other people's are a bit confusing, too.
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My experience is that the universal is the personal. If you can get past your navel-gazing into the deepest part of yourself as a writer, you find everyone - we're all there.
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