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Ain't no chance if you dont take it.
Guy Clark / Singer-Songwriter
Chance
Sports
Determination
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Ain't no chance if you don't take it.
Guy Clark / Singer-Songwriter
Chance
No Chance
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Interesting little game we play with each other.
Guy Clark / Singer-Songwriter
Games
Interesting
Play
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I just was apologizing for maybe being a little goofy.
Guy Clark / Singer-Songwriter
Apologizing
Apology
Goofy
Littles
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If I knew where good songs came from, I'd go there more often.
Guy Clark / Singer-Songwriter
Ifs
Song
Songwriting
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This is a fantasy fiddle tune. The part you fantasize is the fiddle.
Guy Clark / Singer-Songwriter
Fantasy
Performing
Tunes
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I get pretty much all the exercise I need walking down airport concourses carrying bags.
Guy Clark / Singer-Songwriter
Funny
Inspirational
Travel
Bags
Exercise
Walking
Airport
Carrying
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I'm gonna build me a boat with these two hands, it'll be a fair curve from a noble plan.
Guy Clark / Singer-Songwriter
Curves
Hands
Two
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Mary Gauthier's great. Yeah, we've played a lot of gigs together. She's really wonderful.
Guy Clark / Singer-Songwriter
Gigs
Mary
Together
Wonderful
Yeah
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Well, I had a fiddle that I really can't play, so I loaned it to Darrell. But yeah, he's from another planet.
Guy Clark / Singer-Songwriter
Fiddle
Yeah
Loaned
Planet
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I hear this song and I think, Man, this is ... great. This is the best I ever heard this. I forget I'm the one singing.
Guy Clark / Singer-Songwriter
Men
Song
Thinking
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I love playing and I love singing, and the writing. There's kind of a symbiotic relationship between the writing and the playing.
Guy Clark / Singer-Songwriter
Kind
Singing
Writing
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I've known Shawn for several years. And he's just an amazing talent. He's a great writer, a marvelous, marvelous guitar player, and plays really good fiddle.
Guy Clark / Singer-Songwriter
Fiddle
Guitar
Guitar Player
Marvelous
Player
Talent
Years
Good Great Amazing
Great Writer
Plays
Several
Shawn
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It was really amazing. I mean, he'd never mentioned that he played in the symphony, like serious violin playing, not fiddle playing. And he just blew us away.
Guy Clark / Singer-Songwriter
Amazing
Fiddle
Serious
Symphony
Violin
Played
Blew
Mentioned
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I don't know what the outcome will be. I put a couple away for my grandkids, like that. So I don't know, who knows? Maybe I'll start building guitars for a living.
Guy Clark / Singer-Songwriter
Couple
Grandkids
Guitar
Outcomes
Guitars
Outcome
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Its just something Ive always done. In South Texas, the first guitar you get is a Mexican guitar. And the first one I got, the first thing I did was take it apart.
Guy Clark / Singer-Songwriter
Guitar
Mexican
Texas
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It's just something I've always done. In South Texas, the first guitar you get is a Mexican guitar. And the first one I got, the first thing I did was take it apart.
Guy Clark / Singer-Songwriter
Mexican
Texas
Done Always Guitar
Apart
Guitar Always Done
First One
First Thing
Just Something
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All gut strings. Thats just the first kind of guitar I played, it was a nylon string guitar. And to me, its the purest form of guitar making, and I just enjoy doing it.
Guy Clark / Singer-Songwriter
Firsts
Guitar
Nylon
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All gut strings. That's just the first kind of guitar I played, it was a nylon string guitar. And to me, it's the purest form of guitar making, and I just enjoy doing it.
Guy Clark / Singer-Songwriter
Guitar
Strings
Gut
Purest
Purest Form
String
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Darrell is really good in the studio. I mean, he has a real working knowledge of how the process works, and what sounds good coming back over tape, and how the stuff works together.
Guy Clark / Singer-Songwriter
Tape
Studio
Sounds
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But by the time you get there and you get home, it winds up being a lot of time out. So I'm getting the itch to build, I know that. I keep looking at my stacks of wood and what I can do with it.
Guy Clark / Singer-Songwriter
By The Time
Itch
Winds
Wood
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Chris is the engineer down at the studio where we do these things. And he's just such an integral part and he has such a marvelous ear. Also it turns out, we didn't know, but he's a pretty good fiddle player.
Guy Clark / Singer-Songwriter
Fiddle
Marvelous
Turns
Chris
Ear
Integral
Integral Part
Pretty Good
Studio
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There arent any rules, as far as anything-and that applies especially to writing songs, whatever gets the point across. So youre just kind of brought up to feel-in any field, if you say you can do it, do it. There it is.
Guy Clark / Singer-Songwriter
Motivational
Country
Song
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There aren't any rules, as far as anything-and that applies especially to writing songs, whatever gets the point across. So you're just kind of brought up to feel-in any field, if you say you can do it, do it. There it is.
Guy Clark / Singer-Songwriter
You Can Do It
Rules
Across
Brought
Just Kind
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I have no reason to sit home and write songs all day without going out and playing for the folks. And I have no reason to go play for the folks unless I'm writing new songs so they can sort of feed off one another. And I just try to do the best I can.
Guy Clark / Singer-Songwriter
Home
New Songs
No Reason
Song
Writing
All Day
Best Home Day
Feed
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Things change all the time, and theyll probably never be the same again. Its just the natural evolution of the human condition. Things change, and whatever it is is what it is. I mean, you try to start second guessing that, you either get rich or die broke.
Guy Clark / Singer-Songwriter
Guessing
Mean
Trying
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Things change all the time, and they'll probably never be the same again. It's just the natural evolution of the human condition. Things change, and whatever it is is what it is. I mean, you try to start second guessing that, you either get rich or die broke.
Guy Clark / Singer-Songwriter
Change
Broke
Evolution
Guessing
Human Condition
Mean
Natural
Rich
Things
Time Change Start
Just
Die
Condition
Again
Get
Never
Try
Same
Change Time Start
Either
Human
Whatever
Second
Start
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I've gone a year and not written a song just because I couldn't think of anything. But I always come back to it because there's always that little buzz you get when you do something well and sing it out loud to the public. And people clap and tell you how great you are.
Guy Clark / Singer-Songwriter
Song
Thinking
Writing
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Music is supposed to be entertaining and if it touches you emotionally, so much the better. Sometimes you do it to save your own life, not anybody else's. That's why I write. I'm not trying to change anybody else's life or the world, I'm trying to keep from blowing my own brains out. That's the real point.
Guy Clark / Singer-Songwriter
Brain
Real
Writing
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Anything that happens after I write a song...that's fine with me. It's up to the listener to read into it what they need from it. And that's part of the reason I write like I do, so I can leave the holes in the right places so people can say, 'Yeah, that happened to me,' and they're able to have their own little fantasy about it.
Guy Clark / Singer-Songwriter
People
Song
Writing
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Most of the really good songs are dead true. ... It had to have happened to have the song be there. Every time I've tried to make stuff up it just kind of falls flat. So the majority of my work is something that happened to me, I saw happen to someone else, or a friend of mine told me happened. There is a certain amount of theatrical and poetic license. People are supposed to like it, that's why you're doing it. It's supposed to be fun. It's not brain surgery, it's heart surgery. They're just songs.
Guy Clark / Singer-Songwriter
Fall
Fun
Song
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