"A lot of my songs are very personal, always, but this one felt like a memoir. I almost called it Hallucinated Memoir. "Granny" is a hallucinated memoir. It's straight-up symbolism for my life, in many ways."

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Vic Chesnutt

#Song Quotes #Granny Quotes #Memoir Quotes

“My days â€“ the blossom of my youth and the flower of my manhood â€“ have been darkened by the dreariness of servitude. In this my native land â€“ in the land of my sires â€“ I am degraded without fault as an alien and an outcast.”
“I cannot follow you Christians; for you try to crawl through your life upon your knees, while I stride through mine on my feet.”
“From the moment of birth, at every level, human beings who are more alike than different become polarized into two absolutely exclusive classes with very different and ill-distributed symbolic powers.”
“Donâ€™t just stand there; make something happen.”
“I decided to try to make a show of my own where I could invite an audience to obsess about race the way I sometimes do. So it was an attempt to dig into the race and history in America, and to make it personal and dramatic.”
“I don't have that same ambition I had when I was younger.”
“I've been through so much in my life. I've seen so much. I know how fast things can change. I know someone can be here one minute and gone the next.”
“I consider myself a relatively moral guy”

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