I would say I'd rather dig a ditch, you know, do hard, manual labor than write lyrics.
"Natalie Anne Merchant" is an American singer-songwriter and musician. She joined the alternative rock band 10,000 Maniacs in 1981 and left it to begin her solo career in 1993.
If you enjoy these quotes, be sure to check out other famous musicians! More Natalie Merchant on Wikipedia.My sister works in an inner-city school in Greenville, South Carolina, and she brought many of her at-risk kids to our show yesterday to the sound-check. It was amazing how these kids opened up with music. Music teaches so much about focus and concentration and group dynamics and appreciation for subtlety and beauty. And that's being taken away from schools.
It's funny, I remember doing the Johnny Carson show, and, uh, I couldn't afford my rent.
I'm on this search trying to figure out exactly who I am and what I have to say to people.
I don't want to live in a culture of despair. I'd like to live in a culture of hope.
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That kind of violence is dangerous to me, to be beamed out via satellite to the rest of the country. Since I don't watch television very much, when I do check in, I'm horrified. But I don't think it took a massacre in a high school in America for me to see that there's too much violence or that children aren't being taught to use their own judgment when they watch television.
I just want to be known as a good songwriter who wrote songs that were enduring. I hope my music gives people a glimpse of how empathetic we were and how desirous we were of a better society.
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