Ryan Adams Quotes

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My entire life, I wake up, and at some point in the afternoon, I head toward some kind of musical recording device. My entire life.

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I routinely never discuss my marriage. It’s nice to have things in my life that are totally mine.

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When I start working on a batch of tunes – like roughly 10 solid tunes – I always know there’ll be another 10 to follow, because for every song I invest a lot of time in, there’s another song waiting behind it.

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For me, what I learned is that I went for a long time without making music when I was married, and I think some of that was because – it was a little bit unfortunate – but it didn’t make sense in the confines of my marriage for me to be the musician and the writer, which requires a lot of focus and attention.

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If you don’t have an outlet, you become a criminal – or misanthropic.

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I don’t know any jazz stuff. I don’t know how to jam in that way. So jamming, for me, is writing a tune.

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I have found in black metal the lyrics are profoundly beautiful… a pathos and mythos at the same time.

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I see this beautiful and tragic world, and I do my best to describe it, because it’s been crushing to me since I was a kid. It seems to be how I connect.

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I was a nervous young man. I wanted to do so many things. And I was so enthusiastic and earnestly in love with so many things that I tried too hard. I tried really, really hard. And I made a lot of mistakes. I was afraid of a lot of stuff. And I kind of feel bad for that person I was.

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Collaboration has become really integral to my process. I play music so that I can spend time with my friends and communicate in that way. I experience so much joy in that process, because, you know, it’s those times of getting together and playing music and all that comes with it that are the best for me.

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In the three years that nobody heard music from me, I made more music than I’ve ever made.

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Man, I loved The Smiths so much. I thought they looked awesome, and Morrissey had hearing aids like my Papaw.

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For me, the best thing you can do as a man in loving someone is to do your best, go on that walk, and at the end of that walk be as much of a gentleman as you were in the beginning.

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Maybe I am a jerk sometimes. Maybe I’m not. I think most people are kind of a jerk once in a while.

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I’ve gotten to a place where I still love to play and sing, but I don’t have any ego agenda left, outside of just wanting to stay in a creative place and play music. I much prefer to sing for somebody else, and to somebody else.

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Sometimes a break-up song is perceived as that because that’s what the person who‘s hearing it needs.

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I was an earnest young man who just wanted to make music.

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I’m a goofball. I’m always changing my mind.

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I can sing the saddest song with a bunch of people, and the feeling of sharing that energy activates in a way that either heals it or makes me feel like I’ve risen a thousand miles above it into space, and I’m staring down on it as a little dot.

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Ultimately, however bad a situation is for people, especially if it’s a condition of love or some internal dialogue, I think most people would agree that when you look back on it, those times are well remembered.

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On ‘Heartbreaker,’ I had to sing those songs. I drank the way I did those songs. I ate the way I did those songs. I communicated the way I did those songs. With ‘Gold,’ I was trying to prove something to myself. I wanted to invent a modern classic.

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I think it would be wrong to consider ‘Ashes and Fire’ a love album. The record is obsessed with time. I believe that there is a kinder view of the self on this record.

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‘Prisoner‘ is not a direct ‘I’ve just been divorced‘ album, although that fire is burning very well on the record.

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I cannot say that I know a lot about scales, but I can write songs.

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To make a song is a gift, and once it’s done it keeps evolving and changing and becomes a tool to interact with other people. It’s like a conversation.

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