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My work is has always been very, very personal.
Tift Merritt / Singer-Songwriter
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You have to be vigilant about keeping your own fire alive.
Tift Merritt / Singer-Songwriter
Alive
Fire
Vigilant
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I think, at the end of the day, I have an outsider's heart.
Tift Merritt / Singer-Songwriter
End Of The Day
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I'm always kind of surprised how much I'm associated with country music.
Tift Merritt / Singer-Songwriter
Music Always Country
Associated
Country Music
Music Country Always
Surprised
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I travel in a Ford Econoline van with a trailer. So it's not quite so glamorous.
Tift Merritt / Singer-Songwriter
Glamorous
Ford
Trailer
Van
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You can always boil down the life of a musician to touring, playing, and writing.
Tift Merritt / Singer-Songwriter
Musician
Boil
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When I was nominated for a Grammy, my label dropped me - I have a wariness about trying for a hit.
Tift Merritt / Singer-Songwriter
Grammy
Dropped
Label
Nominated
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As much as I love being a singer-songwriter, I love throwing down on stage and letting it all out.
Tift Merritt / Singer-Songwriter
Throwing
Letting
Singer Songwriter
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I think you need a concrete, real-world metaphor to talk about inner life without feeling like a jerk.
Tift Merritt / Singer-Songwriter
Concrete
Inner Life
Jerk
Metaphor
Inner
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Sometimes when you're writing on a ukulele, you're in a totally new land, rhythmically or melodically.
Tift Merritt / Singer-Songwriter
Land
Ukulele
Writing
Totally
Rhythmically
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I don't want to be overly philosophical, but I think there are things you earn for yourself as you go.
Tift Merritt / Singer-Songwriter
Philosophical
Earn
Overly
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My point of view as a writer has to be a lot more ego-less than just like being some performer on stage with a hairdo.
Tift Merritt / Singer-Songwriter
Point Of View
Hairdo
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I wanted to dedicate myself completely to the things that matter to me and let everything else go, and I think that's a really rewarding thing.
Tift Merritt / Singer-Songwriter
Dedicate
Everything Else
Rewarding
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A tremendous amount of energy is freed up when you feel that your vision is actually respected and cared for by the people you're working with.
Tift Merritt / Singer-Songwriter
Energy
People
Vision
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I'm a writer, first and foremost, and I sort of take my cues from the songwriters of the '70s, who are talking about what's really important to them.
Tift Merritt / Singer-Songwriter
Songwriters
Foremost
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I think that there are a lot of things that come along with being a musician, but I don't want to whine about them. I don't want to complain about my job.
Tift Merritt / Singer-Songwriter
Musician
Whine
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I think you have to ask questions that are scary to ask, and you cannot apologize for that, and you cannot worry what anyone else thinks about your journey.
Tift Merritt / Singer-Songwriter
Journey
Scary
Worry
Anyone Else
Apologize
Thinks
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The thought of making work that's easily consumed and quickly forgotten - what's the point? I want my work to be cohesive, to age and improve like old leather.
Tift Merritt / Singer-Songwriter
Consumed
Forgotten
Leather
Cohesive
Easily
Improve
Point
Quickly
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Music is like a really sacred, awesome thing. That first 45 minutes to two hours that you're on stage spending time with music every night is always really great.
Tift Merritt / Singer-Songwriter
Every Night
Sacred
Spending
Spending Time
Time Great Music
Awesome
Time Music Great
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In France, I discovered that I love writing in the city. There's such an intensity to being in the city that matches the intensity of what you're experiencing in your head.
Tift Merritt / Singer-Songwriter
France
Intensity
Matches
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France was very opposite of the show-business experience I'd been living; I was anonymous and alone. I wore no makeup, wore the same clothes every day. And I wrote and wrote and wrote.
Tift Merritt / Singer-Songwriter
France
Makeup
Opposite
Anonymous
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I was thinking about how a playlist is really so inadequate as opposed to a mixtape because it takes seventeen days to really make a mixtape with a homemade cover that you like and that you'd give away.
Tift Merritt / Singer-Songwriter
Homemade
Inadequate
Seventeen
Cover
Opposed
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