"I started writing songs, I guess, when I was about 13 or 14, but I didn't know if they were good enough yet or anything."
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"I started writing more with my voice in mind."
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"I love Emmylou Harris's version of my song, 'Sweet Old World.' Her intonation is great."
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"I have to try different things to see what works best. Other people get impatient with that."
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"I've had trouble being in relationships and writing. This has been a real problem for me. I don't know if it's because I'm not free to fantasize or create these fantasy things about other people"
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"I grew up in a very literate, very independent household where people spoke their ideas and were very supportive of helping each other find their own way"
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"I would worry if I wasn't coming up with ideas, if I wasn't inspired."
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"Blaze Foley was a genius and a beautiful loser."
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"It's easier to write songs when you're single."
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"Above all, the listener should be able to understand the poem or the song, not be forced to unravel a complicated, self-indulgent puzzle. Offer your art up to the whole world, not just an elite few."
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"I feel like it's really kind of a sit-down album, much in the same way I imagine Billie Holiday or someone sitting down in the studio and singing."
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"I was immediately taken with Geoff Muldaur's rich soulful voice, masterful phrasing and guitar playing when I first heard him."
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"I write the songs, go in and record them, then I listen to everything and decide how it all fits together."
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"Back in the 1960s, I saw Peter, Paul and Mary. I was at that age, about 14, and I was mesmerized."
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"I'm always writing ideas down and then I stick em in my pocket and put em in that folder so I don't lose them. Like, somebody might say something, and I'll go, oh that's a good line, and that goes in the folder, too. It's kind of an ongoing process for me."
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"I feel a lot more comfortable being me these days. I'm constantly told that my work is good. A lot of fans and a lot of other artists say my songs and albums mean a lot to them. Isn't that what's important?"
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"Offer your art up to the whole world, not just an elite few."
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"RB Morris is the greatest unknown singer-songwrit er in the US."
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"When I started out playing guitar and singing, I was about twelve, going on thirteen. The role models for me back then were the folk singers. They all had these high, really nice voices and ranges, like Judy Collins and Joan Baez, and then later, of course, Joni Mitchell and Linda Ronstadt. I decided early on that I was going to learn how to write songs really, really well, because I didn't want to have to compete as a singer. I didn't feel that it was my strong point."
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"I started writing little short stories and poems as soon as I learned to read and write. I think I was six years old. And then when I got to be eleven, twelve, and into my teens, I was just listening to records all the time, and I got a guitar. I started to take guitar lessons when I was twelve."
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