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David Ryan Adams (born November 5, 1974) is an American singer-songwriter, musician, multi-instrumentalist, record producer and poet. He is best known for his solo career, during which he has released sixteen albums, and as a former member of rock/alternative country band Whiskeytown, with whom he recorded three studio albums.

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A lot of the songs I write are like songs that I've never been able to find on any record, but that I've always wanted to hear. Or maybe in a style I already loved, but I was looking for something in it that I wasn't hearing yet.

Hear, Record, Song, Style, Writing

Some things were made to be felt

Made, Felt, Things

I quit drinking every night, at 1:30 A. M.

Drinking, Night, Quit, Quitting

I want to make sure I'm with a girl that's a good kisser, and that when I wake up, I have coffee and a cigarette. That's all I really want out of life. That, and world domination.

Cigarette, Coffee, Girl, Good, Make, Wake Up

It's like — I don't know, sometimes it's like chasing a pretty girl on the beach. And things I never thought I could do. . . I can do.

Beach, Chasing, Girl, Sometimes, Things, Thought

I went down to Houston and I stopped in San 'Antone, I passed up the station for the bus. I was trying to find me something, but I wasn't sure just what. . . man, I ended up with pockets full of dust.

Bus, Dust, Men, Pockets, Station, Travel

Collaboration has become really integral to my process. I play music so that I can spend time with my friends and communicate in that way. I experience so much joy in that process, because, you know, it's those times of getting together and playing music and all that comes with it that are the best for me.

Collaboration, Joy, Know, Play, Together, Way

I'm not the cool thing, and I'm not going to be the cool thing for a really long time, and it isn't like I'm not the cool thing and I sell 3,000,000 records every time. I'm not the cool thing, and I barely sell 150,000 records, if that, ever. So I'm obviously working really hard to sustain myself. I'm actually a target to be dropped, because that's just not enough records for a big company.

Cool, Enough, Long, Records, Target, Time

I can sort of will that stuff to happen to me if I put myself in the right headspace. Then I can actually get to a space where it won't just be one song that comes through, but a series of them.

Headspace, Series, Song, Space, Stuff

I think that music, or at least the kind of music that I make, benefits greatly from improvisation.

Benefits, Improvisation, Kind, Music, Thinking

Being a rock musician is already like ego-tripping hardcore. You're self-consumed, and you're always thinking. It's really easy to say, "I'm going to write a song about this situation, and when I'm done, everyone will care. " To everybody else, that's ego-tripping.

Done, Like, Musician, Song, Thinking, Writing

I'm never argumentative for the sake of being argumentative, I don't think. And more than ever, I've had to be willing to fight just to get records released, or just to be able to walk away with a little bit of self-respect and pride.

Argumentative, Away, Fight, Fighting, Pride, Thinking

Some people want to go forever, I just want to burn off hard and bright.

Bright, Forever, People, Want

I think that we live in a time where it's easier to be suspicious of dedicated men and women, people dedicated to their craft, because the world around them inspires them to be lazy. It inspires them to be negative. It inspires them to be snarky.

Dedicated, Men, People, Snarky, Thinking

I use to be panicked, but know I'm curious!

Curious, Know, Panicked, Use, Use To Be

I was never much of a bass player.

Bass, Bass Players, Player

I've never been to Vegas, but I've gambled all my life.

Gambled, Life, Vegas

If I had a reed made of lightening I could blow the sax all night. . . I don't know where one would acquire a reed made of lightening but I would imagine that Bill Clinton has one.

Bills, Blow, Know, Night, Sax

You can imagine several scenes from Star Wars? The way they looked? For me, that's how music is. Sometimes I'll be developing riffs for songs, just while I'm sitting around and not playing.

Imagine, Song, Songs, Stars, War, Wars

It's hard to view myself sometimes as even in the same league as other musicians, mainly because there's so much music before me. I feel overinformed by different styles and different possibilities.

Views, League, Style, Music, Overinformed

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