Cat Power Quotes

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• I used to want to be a war photographer, and I used to want to be a ballerina and a comedian. I used to want…
• Nobody considers a covers record an album.
• I got more guts than brains, and that's my problem.
• I'm not a professional entertainer. I'm not Neil Diamond.
• I've always done things myself. I've never bragged or screamed that I produced a record before. I never told anybody.
• I've always dressed like a dude.
• I've never had a clique. It's impossible when you're always traveling.
• If your parents gave you fire to play with when you were two, you'd be standing in fire by the time you were an adult.
• People and their religions don't affect me.
• People tend to think I'm insane, and I'm really tired of it.
• Playing the guitar, you kind of lock into a rhythm and a groove, and then it relaxes me to make up lyrics and sing.
• We're always going to remind ourselves of our mistakes and how we do things differently, trying to be a better person or whatever.
• After my second-to-last record, 'The Greatest', I had gone on tour for a while, and I didn't play an instrument for about five years. And…
• For me, the moment the mic is on and it's rolling, it's impossible to vocally relax for some reason. But one day, I'm going to…
• I got told I needed a producer I don't know how many times - maybe 27 times, 30? Then I recently got told 'I'm so…
• I got told so many times I needed a manager. For a long time I resisted, and I finally got one so I can pay…
• Life is hard and it gets worse and worse and worse.
• From folk to tribal to Cab Calloway, Cole Porter, Gershwin to the Rolling Stones, whose first record was all covers, to country-western, bebop, blues, and…
• Everybody tends to think I'm crazy, which is the biggest problem in my life.
• Hip-hop and R&B is mostly what I listen to. I don't have a connection with punk rock - I just never had that experience.

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