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• Most of the music you hear on the radio today is developed for making money. It doesn't feel true or honest. You can feel it in the music.

  Iris DeMent

  Radio, Today, Honest

  "'The Poor Are Treated Like Enemies' An Interview with Iris DeMent". Interview with Richard Phillips, www.wsws.org. April 18, 1998.

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• Si algo me molesta, me molesta durante mucho tiempo hasta que encuentro la manera de solucionarlo. La música me proporcionó un medio para solucionar las cosas.

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  Mean, Long, Way

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• 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.

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  Suffering, Want, Worthwhile

  "The poor are treated like enemies". Interview with Richard Phillips, www.wsws.org. April 18, 1998.

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• We got CEOs making 200 times the worker's pay, but they'll fight like hell against raising the minimum wage.

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  Fighting, Minimum Wage, Pay

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• I've always written about things that cause me to feel something.

  Iris DeMent

  Causes, Feels, Written

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• Y llevo demasiado tiempo dando vueltas con los recuerdos.

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  Memories, Long, Way

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• 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

  Largo, Gente, Intentar

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

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  Honestly, My Own

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• I've always been aware of having feelings that were pretty intense at times. I imagine most people have had that, or they wouldn't be human.

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  People, Feelings, Imagine

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• 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

  Cristiano, Religioso, Pensamiento

  "The poor are treated like enemies". Interview with Richard Phillips, www.wsws.org. April 18, 1998.

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• I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.

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  People, Able, Havens

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• Quizá pasé más tiempo dándole vueltas a las emociones que otras personas, y quizá por eso acabé escribiendo.

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  Writing, Dwelling, People

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• Me influyeron sobre todo la Carter Family, Jimmie Rodgers, Loretta Lynn, Merle Haggard, y otros como Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash.

  Iris DeMent

  Cash, Bob, Dylan

  "The poor are treated like enemies". Interview with Richard Phillips, www.wsws.org. April 18, 1998.

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• I never set out to write songs about the world around me... it just kind of came about as a result of paying more attention to things.

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  Song, Writing, Attention

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• Some guy refuses to fight and we call that the sin, but he's standing up for what he believes in and that seems pretty damned American to me.

  Iris DeMent

  Believe, Fighting, Guy

  Song: Wasteland of the Free, Album: The Way I Should

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• Making the record was tons of fun, the most fun I've ever had.

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  Fun, Records

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• Writing, overall, has never been what I'd call fun. It's fulfilling. It doesn't come real easy for me.

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  Fun, Real, Writing

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• Apaga la televisión y empieza a buscar información que no provenga de una empresa que intenta ganar dinero.

  Iris DeMent

  Trying, Digging, Corporations

  "The poor are treated like enemies". Interview with Richard Phillips, www.wsws.org. April 18, 1998.

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• My guitar is really tempermental. I don't give up on it though, I'm close to my guitar!

  Iris DeMent

  Giving Up, Don't Give Up, Guitar

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