“I wear black because I’m comfortable in it. But then in the summertime when it’s hot I’m comfortable in light blue.”

Johnny Cash

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“What people don’t understand is that musicians swim backwards up the stream. You have what you like and then you want to see where it came from.”

Marc Ribot

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“I always end up in the same place after I finish recording and touring an album: devoid of ideas, and afraid I won’t be able to write anything worthwhile again. One of the first thoughts to flicker into that void tends to be, How can I make my next work relate to what preceded it? I usually make a plan, which later reveals itself to be moot, but to which I cling for a little while, in a talismanic sense.”

Joanna Newsom

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“I love dresses, especially good vintage from the early ’70s–Yves Saint Laurent and Ossie Clark, and anything in silk, printed crepe, or chiffon. I love polka dots, peplums, cap sleeves, tea lengths, cloth-covered buttons, high heels, and wide belts. Everything I buy has to have a waist that fits; that’s the only design element about which I’m completely inflexible.”

Joanna Newsom

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“Music is like acupuncture—the exact same treatment, the exact same songs, even the exact same recording will move people, even the same people at different times, in very different ways. If someone is unmoved, its none of my business—I don’t mind, I don’t care.”

Jolie Holland

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“I used to have a few girlfriends in Chastilian Road days, though it was purely platonic at the time. I always remember one gave me a kiss. We were about six or seven. ‘But keep it dark,’ she said. I still haven’t written that song. Chicks are always miles ahead. Keep it dark!”

Keith Richards

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“All the dreams you show up in are not your own.”

Gil Scott-Heron

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“The way you get to know yourself is by the expressions on other people’s faces, because that’s the only thing that you can see, unless you carry a mirror about.”

Gil Scott-Heron

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