Author: Iris Dement

Quotes

I don't describe myself as a Christian or religious, but I like to think that how I live my life is honest.

I don't describe myself as a Christian or religious, but I like to think that how I live my life is honest.

- Iris Dement

Turn off the TV and start digging around for information that's not from a corporation trying to make money.

Turn off the TV and start digging around for information that's not from a corporation trying to make money.

- Iris Dement

I honestly don't listen to a lot of music - I spend so much time working at my own music.

I honestly don't listen to a lot of music - I spend so much time working at my own music.

- Iris Dement

Maybe I spent more time dwelling on emotions than some people, and maybe that's why I ended up writing.

Maybe I spent more time dwelling on emotions than some people, and maybe that's why I ended up writing.

- Iris Dement

I was mainly influenced by the Carter Family, Jimmie Rodgers, Loretta Lynn, Merle Haggard, and others like Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash.

I was mainly influenced by the Carter Family, Jimmie Rodgers, Loretta Lynn, Merle Haggard, and others like Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash.

- Iris Dement

This is how it has been since time began: If you want to make something really worthwhile and true, then you have to suffer for it.

This is how it has been since time began: If you want to make something really worthwhile and true, then you have to suffer for it.

- Iris Dement

For a long time I was interested in being a social worker. In a lot of ways I feel that that's all my music is, trying to help people.

For a long time I was interested in being a social worker. In a lot of ways I feel that that's all my music is, trying to help people.

- Iris Dement

If something bothers me, it bothers me for a long time until I find a way to work it out. Music provided me with a means of working things out.

If something bothers me, it bothers me for a long time until I find a way to work it out. Music provided me with a means of working things out.

- Iris Dement

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