It's pretty amazing, someone having that kind of charisma - and it still happens in micro and macro forms - to convince a whole gaggle of people to kill themselves. Or put on robes and jump up and down. That takes a very charismatic leader. Annie E. Clark More Quotes by Annie E. Clark More Quotes From Annie E. Clark I do love the ceremony of putting on a record but I don't have space for a vinyl collection. Annie E. Clark records vinyl space CDs are usually an hour long because that's the amount a CD could hold - not because that's the optimal amount of time for any given musical expression. Annie E. Clark cds expression long I have a lot of guitar heroes I guess, some of them are female and some of them are male. Robert Fripp is one of them, and Marc Ribot, that's another guitar hero. Annie E. Clark males guitar hero I think every time I play, every show is different, and I think that at a certain point a song isn't about you anymore. It's about the audience, it's about how the song has worked its way into other people's lives and that kind of keeps the meaning of the song new, because you see it reflected in other people every night. Annie E. Clark song night thinking I was like the roadie, I was carrying gear, checking things in at airports, making sure they had flowers backstage and interfacing with promoters who were sometimes really nice and sometimes a little seedy. It was a great apprenticeship, to be in the music industry. Annie E. Clark airports nice flower Every part of every song can have a totally different musical sound, because otherwise if I wanted to go from a verse of one song to the chorus of another, I'd have to go: "Uh, okay, press that pedal and then... press that pedal, and then press that pedal off." Annie E. Clark musical sound song The schematics are a little bit tricky, but once you get it down you're able to really program an entire show. Every song has a lot of different guitar sounds in it, so that's what it is. Annie E. Clark guitar sound song With the first kid, you micromanage it, making sure there's no hair out of place when it goes off to school. But by the third kid, it's more like, "Oh, you want to wear a splatter-painted, Hard Rock Café T-shirt for seven days in a row and not brush your hair? Go for it. Be who you want to be." Annie E. Clark hair kids school I'd listen to things that felt really good in the moment and realize they were clouded by enthusiasm or caffeine. And things that I was struggling to get out ended up being really compelling. It's an emotional roller coaster; there's exhilaration and there's shame. Annie E. Clark being-real emotional struggle I got offstage and was just looking at my hands, and they were shaking. I was like, 'I wanna kill someone! What's happening?' Annie E. Clark shaking happenings hands I know that, physically, I'm a very demure-looking person. But I certainly have as much aggression or anger as the next person, and that's got to come out somehow. I'm lucky that I get to play music, and that it's not going to come out in some totally destructive way. Annie E. Clark lucky play way For a brief moment, I considered deconstructing the song and going down a cerebral road, but then I realized it would kill what is most powerful about it. Annie E. Clark powerful moments song I have the weirdest job. It's not every day that you get to stand up onstage and unload every ounce of your misanthropic bile onto a crowd of people, and they're like, "Cool! Hit us again!" Annie E. Clark crowds jobs people All these things that we are very nostalgic for come from a place of technology dictating [art]. This time and place is no different. Annie E. Clark technology different art An mp3 is a compressed form of data. It's not the full spectrum. It's never going to sound as good as a record. Annie E. Clark mp3 data sound I think one thing people forget is that every technological advance we fetishize had its place in time. Annie E. Clark forget people thinking I just think that the question of women in rock or women playing guitar, I just think it's such a non-issue, and I think that probably the sooner critics and press outlets can just erase the 'what's it like being a women in rock?' question from their vocabulary, the better off everyone will be. Annie E. Clark rocks vocabulary thinking
