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I consider myself more of a rock 'n' roll fiddler.
Amanda Shires / Singer-Songwriter
Fiddler
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When you name a beast, sometimes it makes it less bestial.
Amanda Shires / Singer-Songwriter
Bestial
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I have a job I love and a great family, so I'm pretty lucky.
Amanda Shires / Singer-Songwriter
Great Family
Love Family Great
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Violin was my first form of expression - and is still in a lot of ways.
Amanda Shires / Singer-Songwriter
Violin
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I try my best to not just avoid cliches but to write with some meaning.
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Cliches
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Sometimes when you're going through life you're not really noticing it.
Amanda Shires / Singer-Songwriter
Noticing
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The cool thing about Americana is that the genre is accepting of all types of music.
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Americana
Cool Thing
Types
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And I also think it's a violin when you're selling it and a fiddle when you're buying it.
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Buying
Fiddle
Selling
Violin
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I wasn't getting any work as a songwriter in Texas because I was only known as a fiddle player.
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Fiddle
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My undergraduate degree is in geography and sociology, so I had like no real training with words.
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Geography
Sociology
Undergraduate
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It's weird to take your work into a room and everybody reads it. Then comes the terror part, the dissection.
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Terror
Reads
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I don't know if you've ever shown anyone your work before you're done with it, but it can be very uncomfortable.
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Uncomfortable
Work Your Done
Shown
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There's a stability in being a side person that can be kind of dangerous if you also want to be an artist on your own.
Amanda Shires / Singer-Songwriter
Be Kind
Stability
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People like to say their songs are like children, but you gotta get those kids out there so they can make some money and pay the rent.
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Children
Song
Writing
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I can't sing like Aretha Franklin as much as I wish I could. And I don't sing like Etta James and the Judds as much as I wish I could.
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Franklin
Aretha
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Always have two radar detectors. One to see if there are any cops around, and the second one to make sure there aren't any cops around.
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Radar
Cops
Detector
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Of course, life experience changes and adds to writing. And observations change too, where you put yourself in relation to other people.
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Life Experience
Relation
Life Change Experience
Adds
Observations
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Instinct is still important, but now I can easily identify problems like cliches and mixed metaphors, and I have a broader palette to work off of.
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Instinct
Palette
Broader
Cliches
Easily
Identify
Metaphors
Mixed
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'Eve's Daughter' - that's like, 'Make way, women are cool.' I feel like it's my responsibility to try and do at least a little bit for my own daughter.
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Eve
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It helped my lyric writing so much studying poetry. I thought I knew what poetry was before I immersed myself in it. Poetry is meditative. It's reflective.
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Immersed
Lyric
Reflective
Studying
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My whole life had been bands that were men-centric - and that's a great thing, I know a lot about how to handle myself - but I think I was missing something.
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Missing
Life Great Myself
Great Thing
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The goal at the end of the day is for all of us to find a little bit more peace in life and with ourselves and to feel a little more comfortable in the world.
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Life Peace World
End Of The Day
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After the Texas Playboys and during that time, I had this band in college that I was in called Thrift Store Cowboys. It was me and a couple other dudes would write the songs.
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Band
College
Texas
Thrift
Cowboys
Dudes
Store
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I have no choice in what direction my music goes, honestly, as all I get is what I'm given. I start writing the songs, and they start presenting themselves the way they want to be heard.
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Presenting
No Choice
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I just write what I write, produce the music I produce and try to give myself a chance to stay true to the art form. If you try to rein in an art form, it can be hurtful to what you are making.
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Hurtful
Stay True
Art Form
Rein
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I write really slowly, and my lines are really, really terrible all the time. It takes so long for me to get them to be where I won't be embarrassed to sing them, and then feel like they're great.
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Embarrassed
Time Great Long
Time Great Me
Slowly
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I'm a nervous sharer. I'm nervous to share things in their unfinished state just because, I mean, it's kind of embarrassing. You know what it could be, but you can't explain what it's going to be.
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Embarrassing
Unfinished
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I think I prefer for the listener to decide for themselves what stuff means, because I always hate it when I think a song is about a horse, and then it turns out to be about a damn trip to France.
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Hate
Horse
Song
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I was in a plane that lost an engine flying from Dallas to England. It happened over the Newfoundland Sea, and it was dark, and they took away our drinks, and it was scary. I thought I was gonna die.
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Dallas
Flying
Sea
Drinks
Engine
Plane
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The thing that I'm trying to accomplish is to tell the stories and my feelings in ways that are relatable. But at the same time, I'm so tired of hearing the same old crap. Bring some freshness if you can.
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Accomplish
Freshness
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I had no idea I was gonna be a songwriter, because I was too young to know my own evolution. I started playing the violin as a way to express myself because I didn't have a lot of vocabulary when I was 14.
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No Idea
Violin
Vocabulary
Express
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When I'm outside gardening, it can be so inspiring. I think of words and melodies. It's peaceful. Every singer-songwriter should find something outside of music that makes them as happy as gardening makes me.
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Inspiring
Peaceful
Melodies
Singer Songwriter
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Maybe, whatever influence we have, other songwriters or women or whatever can feel like they can have a place too, I guess. Or that they don't have to do things the way that we've been taught we have to do them.
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Songwriters
Women Way Feel
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In the past, I was free to write in quiet and in the space wherever my desk was at. I could leave my instruments out. In the past, my writing was super private; I never liked showing my work at its earliest stages.
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Desk
Earliest
Stages
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The violin has always been important for me. My mom was a single mom and we moved around a lot, and so the violin was always the one constant I had. I always feel better when I had my violin. Playing it is cathartic.
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Cathartic
Single Mom
Violin
Mom Always Me
Mom Me Better
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Sometimes something opens up in your brain as I'm writing, thinking about the song, and it's like a whirlwind. It all comes together and I could hear what I wanted the songs to sound like, I just didn't know how to express it.
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Whirlwind
Opens
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I'm well-read as far as literary fiction, but I wanted to make better decisions about my writing, to use words or phrases more confidently by learning how your words can be interpreted, the shades of meaning, the different connotations.
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Phrases
Confidently
Learning Better Your
Connotations
Literary
Interpreted
Literary Fiction
Shades
Well-Read
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You know when you have a child and then as you get older, your parents start becoming more like your friends and then telling you things they wouldn't have told you when you were 14 or 15, answering questions about the past or whatever.
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Answering
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At about 33 weeks along in my pregnancy, the doctor suggested that I stay pretty close to home and not be touring and flying around. I was really left to face the kind of deep thinking that comes along with being a mother and bringing a child into the world.
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Flying
Pregnancy
Suggested
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I feel like there's so many voices, and it's necessary for there to be a lot of different voices because we can't all like the same art. That would just be so boring... If anybody wants to hear it, I'm here. It makes for a more interesting world for there to be more than one kind of singer.
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Voices
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I started school because I felt like, as a songwriter, I was operating solely on instinct, and I was having a hard time deciding exactly what words I wanted to use. I felt like I wanted to be a writer, and being a curious person, school felt like a way to solve the problems I was having with my own work.
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Instinct
Curious Person
Deciding
Exactly What
Hard Time
Solely
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I was leaving my violin out of a lot of songs, and that's a strange thing to do because I've been playing the violin since I was 2. It's a part of me. Adding pedals and sounds is great because I get to play the instrument I feel most comfortable on and the one I feel gives my truest expression when I'm making a solo or anything like that.
Amanda Shires / Singer-Songwriter
Solo
Truest
Violin
Great Me Feel
Adding
Instrument
Strange Thing
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