Top 97 Quotes & Sayings by Lucinda Williams

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American musician Lucinda Williams.

Last updated on September 17, 2024.

Lucinda Gayle Williams is an American singer, songwriter, and musician. She recorded her first two albums: Ramblin' on My Mind (1979) and Happy Woman Blues (1980), in a traditional country and blues style that received critical prase but little public or radio attention. In 1988, she released her eponymous third album; Lucinda Williams, to widespread critical acclaim. Widely regarded as "an Americana classic", the album also features "Passionate Kisses", a song later recorded by Mary Chapin Carpenter, which garnered Williams her first Grammy Award for Best Country Song in 1994. Known for working slowly, Williams' fourth album; Sweet Old World, appeared four years later in 1992. Sweet Old World was met with further critical acclaim, and was voted the 11th best album of 1992 in The Village Voice's Pazz & Jop, an annual poll of prominent music critics. Robert Christgau, the poll's creator, ranked it 6th on his own year-end list, later writing that the album, as well as the eponymous Lucinda Williams, were "gorgeous, flawless, brilliant".

American - Musician | Born: January 26, 1953

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Some of their best songs don't have bridges and choruses. So that made me think I should trust my instincts. My songs were okay, I figured. I didn't need to change anything.

Lucinda Williams

I mean, whose songs don't focus on tragedy and loss?

Lucinda Williams

I'm trying to get out of my own way.

Lucinda Williams

The more I separate myself from my upbringing, the more I appreciate what it's done for me.

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Just because I'm talking about something that might have been a sad or painful situation doesn't mean that I'm sad or tortured 24 hours a day any more than anybody else is.

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My approach to recording and all that is pretty organic. It just has to do with all the songs I wrote; go in and record them.

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I write first for myself as a therapeutic process, to get stuff out and to deal with it.

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I can speak for most songwriters - those breakup love songs are so easy to write, as far as the inspiration and all that.

Lucinda Williams

I certainly had my God-can-you-just-take-me-now-I've-just-had-it-I'm-checking-out-let-me-off-the-train-I'm-done kind of thing. But, you know, I would never actually do it. I just can't imagine what it would take to do that.

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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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There's so many other things to write about than unrequited love.

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I have such a great band. We had played all this material on the road. I just wanted to let it fly.

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Of course, I'm older now. I'm in a different place in my life than when I wrote the songs for 'Car Wheels' or 'Essence' or whatever. Different things were going on.

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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'm always coming up with ideas that have been inspired by memories, everyday life and this and that and the other.

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I usually have an idea of how I want a song to sound, but I don't always know how to get there.

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I would worry if I wasn't coming up with ideas, if I wasn't inspired.

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It's really about living in your head... just looking out at the world, then going back into your head and tossing around a lot of ideas and coming out with something interesting to say.

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We just did a few takes of a song and just picked the best one. It was real organic and genuine.

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In so many interviews, they bring up the sexual aspect of the record. I've had some journalists say it sounds like I'm lying down in bed singing with a microphone. It gets so old!

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Sometimes I might borrow something from a song I started a long time ago and see if I can grab something.

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The way I look at life, whatever I'm doing at that time in my life is going to be reflected in my songs, for the most part.

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I'm going to have my moody times.

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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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I'm just like everyone. I like to feel togetherness with someone.

Lucinda Williams

I have had to come to terms with wearing glasses.

Lucinda Williams

Sade's stuff is real deceptive. She's got stuff about prostitutes, poverty and people on the streets.

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You should put time into learning your craft. It seems like people want success so quickly, way before they're ready.

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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'd rather play a few nights at the Fillmore than play one night at an arena.

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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 guess you could write a good song if your heart hadn't been broken, but I don't know of anyone whose heart hasn't been broken.

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I started writing more with my voice in mind.

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People let their own hang-ups become the obstacles between them and personal happiness.

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I have a folder of scraps and pieces of paper with stuff, ideas for songs from the last 25 years; just little things, maybe early songs that I finished, but didn't think they were good enough.

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So few people are truly themselves when they're in the spotlight.

Lucinda Williams

I don't mean to complain. I wouldn't trade my life for anything.

Lucinda Williams

First thing, I throw on some jeans, a T-shirt and my Keds sneakers and make coffee. That is actually my favorite time of day. That is when I do my songwriting, when I am in writing mode.

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I just broke up with my boyfriend, and I've been spending more time alone than I'd like.

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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'm dealing with things as they come along, and I'm talking about it.

Lucinda Williams

I'm trying to learn how to tap into the power of my own being. I know it sounds corny.

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I'm fascinated by the whole concept of snake handling. When you read about the Pentecostal snake handlers, what strikes you the most is their commitment.

Lucinda Williams

The man I lived with is a Christian, so I would talk to him about it. What would this person do in the Bible? What's the story around this person? Generally, when people talk about characters in the Bible, there's one thing they're known for, like Job.

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If you come into success too soon, you'll burn out and be finished before you know it. If you let the maturation process happen naturally, you'll be happier with yourself in the end.

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I'm not just a doormat. I'm not just being stepped on all over the place. If you look at the bulk of my material, it's about trying to find some strength through that.

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I am trying to get right with God. I'm sort of making a statement about the excessiveness.

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You can't really praise somebody's work and then criticize the process.

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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 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.

Lucinda Williams

The old jazz singers or old blues singers, you always just saw them kind of sitting down and singing. They weren't worried as much about their voice sounding perfect. They would make the song kind of fit their voice.

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Of course, Im older now. Im in a different place in my life than when I wrote the songs for Car Wheels or Essence or whatever. Different things were going on.

Lucinda Williams

I think we start suffering as soon as we come out of the womb. I think that people tend to stereotype. When they think of suffering, they think of abuse - physical abuse, emotional abuse, poverty, that kind of thing. There's different levels of suffering. I don't think that it has to do with how much money you have - if you were raised in the ghetto or the Hamptons. For me it's more about perception: self-perception and how you perceive the world.

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The perfect man? A poet on a motorcycle.

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It’s a Long Way to the Top (If You Wanna Rock ’n’ Roll)

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The thing about Alzheimer's is that it's... it's sort of like all these little, small deaths along the way, before they actually physically die.

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I'm trying to get out of my own way

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What I do as a songwriter is a constant force in my life, that I'm grateful to have.

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Have compassion for everyone you meet, even if they don’t want it.