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The lonesome and desperate kids out there, that pain will translate to magic perhaps.


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J. D. VANCE We spend our way to the poorhouse. We buy giant TVs and iPads. Our children wear nice clothes thanks...
J. D. VANCE We spend to pretend that we're upper class. And when the dust clears - when bankruptcy hits or a...
J. D. VANCE I'm not a great band member; I'm more of a band leader.
J. D. SOUTHER Dixie Chicks surprised me with a beautiful three-part harmony version of 'I'll Take Care of ...
J. D. SOUTHER I never even held a guitar until I was 23 and living in California, but then loved it. I'm reall...
J. D. SOUTHER I had a jazz trio, a rock n' roll band, and I played drums in junior high, high school, college,...
J. D. SOUTHER A song of mine called 'I'll Take Care of You' was on that 'Wide Open Spaces' Dix...
J. D. SOUTHER Mike Campbell and Don Henley and I wrote 'The Heart of the Matter,' which was a huge hit for...
J. D. SOUTHER I'm a huge Robert Altman fan and don't take issue with his filmmaking, as eccentric as it is...
J. D. SOUTHER I don't think I ever thought of growing up to be anything other than a musician. There really wa...
J. D. SOUTHER I grew up with singers. My father's mother sang opera. My dad was a big band singer. I can't...
J. D. SOUTHER I'm always writing something. There's always some structure sitting around someplace. There&...
J. D. SOUTHER I was never much of a club guy. Even when I was in New York in the early eighties, I never was once ...
J. D. SOUTHER Stand-up comedians say that anyone in the audience can be funny, but people paid to see us because w...
J. D. SOUTHER My dad was a huge big band and jazz fan, and we both sort of enjoyed be-bop, but man, it required so...
J. D. SOUTHER Think back to the early rock n' roll records, and the average record length in the '50s - an...
J. D. SOUTHER I think I've been influenced by everything I've ever heard. The first thing I ever heard was...
J. D. SOUTHER I don't want to think that anything is off limits for me to write about, but I also don't wa...
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