"You know, it's a pretty mysterious thing still, why you start the songs you start, and the specific flavor of them, the nature of them. I don't know about other writers, but, for me, it's still somewhat out of my control. It's not really a logical process."

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Source : "Gillian Welch and David Rawlings: Welcome To The Machine". Interview with Jewly Hight, americansongwriter.com. November 04, 2009.

Gillian Welch

#Song Quotes #Flavor Quotes #Mysterious Quotes

“Young horses who cannot bear the whip or spur find life hard. At every smart they start forward and rush to their destruction, and when the way is stony and difficult, they know no better expedient than to overturn the cart and gallop madly away.”

Source : Selma Lagerlöf (2012). “Gösta Berling's Saga”, p.7, Courier Corporation
“I guess the worst snow was the Kennedy inauguration in 1960. Heavy snow.”
“We did not flinch but gave our lives to save Greece when her fate hung on a razor's edge.”
“We are persons of quality, I assure you, and women of fashion, and come to see and to be seen.”
“A room hung with pictures is a room hung with thoughts.”
“According to the statistics, a man eats a prune every twenty seconds. I don't know who this fellow is, but I know where to find him.”
“The next night he asked Jonah if he could take $9.49 out of Jonah's secret stash that only Danny and his mum and Jack knew about. Jonah kept it in his sock drawer next to a photograph of Jonah and a girl with sad eyes, taken in one of those railway station photo booths.”
“Once you depart from the Ten Commandments, you have relativism, humanism, the abandonment of absolutes. You have anything. How long before child ***** is mainstream?”

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