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Guy Clark Biography

Guy Charles Clark (November 6, 1941 – May 17, 2016) was an American Texas country and folk singer, musician, songwriter, recording artist, and performer. He released more than twenty albums, and his songs have been recorded by other artists including Jerry Jeff Walker, Jimmy Buffett, Lyle Lovett, Ricky Skaggs, Steve Wariner, and Rodney Crowell. He won the 2014 Grammy Award for Best Folk Album: My Favorite Picture of You.

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This is a fantasy fiddle tune. The part you fantasize is the fiddle.

Fantasy, Part, Performing, Tune, Tunes

Ain't no chance if you dont take it.

Chance, Determination, Sports, Take

There arent any rules, as far as anything-and that applies especially to writing songs, whatever gets the point across. So youre just kind of brought up to feel-in any field, if you say you can do it, do it. There it is.

Motivational, Country, Song, Field, Songs, Across

Mary Gauthier's great. Yeah, we've played a lot of gigs together. She's really wonderful.

Gigs, Played, Together, Wonderful

I don't know what the outcome will be. I put a couple away for my grandkids, like that. So I don't know, who knows? Maybe I'll start building guitars for a living.

Couple, Grandkids, Guitar, Like, Outcomes, Start

I hear this song and I think, Man, this is. . . great. This is the best I ever heard this. I forget I'm the one singing.

Forget, Heard, Men, Song, Think, Thinking

All gut strings. Thats just the first kind of guitar I played, it was a nylon string guitar. And to me, its the purest form of guitar making, and I just enjoy doing it.

Firsts, Guitar, Making, Nylon

I'm gonna build me a boat with these two hands, it'll be a fair curve from a noble plan.

Boat, Build, Curves, Hands, Noble, Two

Things change all the time, and theyll probably never be the same again. Its just the natural evolution of the human condition. Things change, and whatever it is is what it is. I mean, you try to start second guessing that, you either get rich or die broke.

Broke, Evolution, Guessing, Mean, Start, Trying

Its just something Ive always done. In South Texas, the first guitar you get is a Mexican guitar. And the first one I got, the first thing I did was take it apart.

Apart, Guitar, Mexican, Texas, Thing

If I knew where good songs came from, I'd go there more often.

Came, Good, Ifs, Song, Songs, Songwriting

Most of the really good songs are dead true. . . . It had to have happened to have the song be there. Every time I've tried to make stuff up it just kind of falls flat. So the majority of my work is something that happened to me, I saw happen to someone else, or a friend of mine told me happened. There is a certain amount of theatrical and poetic license. People are supposed to like it, that's why you're doing it. It's supposed to be fun. It's not brain surgery, it's heart surgery. They're just songs.

Dead, Fall, Flat, Fun, Poetic, Song

Anything that happens after I write a song. . . that's fine with me. It's up to the listener to read into it what they need from it. And that's part of the reason I write like I do, so I can leave the holes in the right places so people can say, 'Yeah, that happened to me,' and they're able to have their own little fantasy about it.

Like, People, Reason, Song, Writing