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MP3's are perfect.
Kristin Hersh / Singer-Songwriter
Mp3
Perfect
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Popular music sucks so bad right now.
Kristin Hersh / Singer-Songwriter
Popular Music
Right Now
Popular
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I don't like the idea of famous people.
Kristin Hersh / Singer-Songwriter
Famous
Ideas
People
Famous People
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I don't like what the radio plays for the most part.
Kristin Hersh / Singer-Songwriter
Play
Radio
Radio Plays
Plays
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We need a day of the dead. That's a perfect celebration.
Kristin Hersh / Singer-Songwriter
Celebration
Needs
Perfect
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I grew up in a commune where no one considered me female, particularly.
Kristin Hersh / Singer-Songwriter
Female
Grew
Grew Up
Considered
Commune
Particularly
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We didn't really swallow much of the Jesus thing, but we got the vocab.
Kristin Hersh / Singer-Songwriter
Jesus
Swallow
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Good taste - that's all you really need when you're playing an instrument.
Kristin Hersh / Singer-Songwriter
Good Taste
Instruments
Needs
Taste
Good Taste Good Taste
Instrument
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To do it nationally or internationally, you have to follow a few more rules.
Kristin Hersh / Singer-Songwriter
Rules
Internationally
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I felt like it was a great secret when I found out that I could be in my 30s.
Kristin Hersh / Singer-Songwriter
Felt
Found
Secret
Great Secret
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If Americans thought music and art belonged together, they wouldn't have the Grammys.
Kristin Hersh / Singer-Songwriter
Art
Art Is
Together
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I'm beginning to think I have two years encountering sexism without really realising it.
Kristin Hersh / Singer-Songwriter
Realising
Sexism
Thinking
Two
Years
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No drug is a cure, though. Drugs are just big pieces of tape they stick over warning lights.
Kristin Hersh / Singer-Songwriter
Drug
Light
Tape
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Men are allowed to write songs about people and women are allowed to write songs about women
Kristin Hersh / Singer-Songwriter
Men
Song
Writing
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Men are allowed to write songs about people and women are allowed to write songs about women.
Kristin Hersh / Singer-Songwriter
Men Women People
Women Are
Allowed
Women Men People
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My parents didn't treat me as if there was anything in the world I couldn't do, except be unkind.
Kristin Hersh / Singer-Songwriter
Parent
Treats
Unkind
World
World Me Parents
Treat
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I don't have the inclinations that other people seem to have as far as the business is concerned.
Kristin Hersh / Singer-Songwriter
Concerned
Inclination
People
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You have to follow every melodic line, every emotional idea, or you don't get your money's worth.
Kristin Hersh / Singer-Songwriter
Emotional
Ideas
Lines
Melodic
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My brother and I were meditating before we were 6 years old, having to stare at the wall and chant.
Kristin Hersh / Singer-Songwriter
Brother
Meditating
Wall
Years
Chant
Stare
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The songs keep on writing themselves, and I really love them. It's as close as I get to a religion.
Kristin Hersh / Singer-Songwriter
Song
Writing
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Before you can make good music, you just have to shut up. Then the music can say what it has to say.
Kristin Hersh / Singer-Songwriter
Shut Up
Good Music
Shut
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If you're the band leader you ask more of yourself than anyone else, so they tend to raise the bar for me.
Kristin Hersh / Singer-Songwriter
Band
Bars
Leader
Anyone Else
Bar
Raise
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I guess I'll just slip into the studio after the next time with the Muses, and then just keel over and die.
Kristin Hersh / Singer-Songwriter
Keel
Muse
Next
Next Time
Muses
Studio
Slip
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That's my dream job, to be able to mail songs out to people who want to hear them. Paste my face on them and not travel all over the world trying to sell them.
Kristin Hersh / Singer-Songwriter
Dream
Travel
Mail
Song
Sell
Paste
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I have to play as much of the game as I allow myself to get the music heard. But it's not unlike the rest of the world, so I'm not as up in arms about it as I could be.
Kristin Hersh / Singer-Songwriter
Arms
Games
Play
World
Allow
Music Myself World
Unlike
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I don't mind what the market is, but why is it vapid? If they're such a bunch of idiots, why don't you show them good music instead? They're not going to know the difference.
Kristin Hersh / Singer-Songwriter
Bunch
Differences
Mind
Vapid
Good Music Mind
Good Music
Idiots
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I would go to radio stations and they were supposed to be interviewing me and playing my record and they would say, We're playing too many women right now, we can't play your record.
Kristin Hersh / Singer-Songwriter
Play
Radio
Radio Stations
Records
Stations
Interviewing
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Nirvana was pop. You can have distorted guitars and people say it's alternative, but you can't break out of pop music's constructs and still get extensive radio play and media coverage.
Kristin Hersh / Singer-Songwriter
Constructs
Coverage
Guitar
Media
Media Coverage
Play
Radio
Alternative
Distorted
Guitars
Extensive
Nirvana
People Say
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I've always chosen my band members based on their sense of humor. It might sound stupid, but it means not only are they fun to live with on a tour bus for years, but humor implies intelligence.
Kristin Hersh / Singer-Songwriter
Humor
Band
Band Members
Chosen
Fun
Members
Sense Of Humor
Stupid
Implies
Tour
Tour Bus
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Most of the younger people I knew didn't seem to have a handle on things; they hadn't found their place, they didn't understand how the world works, they didn't understand how to treat other people, and they didn't know how to stop thinking about themselves.
Kristin Hersh / Singer-Songwriter
Handle
Younger
Younger People
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Now I know I'll never be numb again. A mother is condemned to feel everything forever. And I'm finally afraid, condemned to fear everything forever. But that makes sense: feel someone else's pain, feel someone else's everything.And he's my baby, so everything's okay.
Kristin Hersh / Singer-Songwriter
Baby
Mother
Pain
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