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Mary Gauthier
Mary Gauthier
American Musician
Born: Mar 11, 1962
Got Life Me People Think You
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I got sober at 27 and started writing around 30 and started playing music in public around 32, 33. Mary Gauthier
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The job of the artist is to go to the places where most other people are embarrassed to go to. And show it. Mary Gauthier
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I think I'll always draw from being a person that doesn't know how to have a normal life, whatever a normal life is. Mary Gauthier
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What matters is what happens in the soul of an artist when you're playing. Mary Gauthier
You Soul Matters Artist Happens Playing
When I first got sober, I hadn't read anything for six or seven years. I didn't have even that much focus. Mary Gauthier
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I always knew I was going to make a record called 'The Foundling.' Since I picked up a guitar, I knew it. Mary Gauthier
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A song is an emotional lightning bolt - a good one, anyway. Mary Gauthier
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Creating something beautiful out of pain helps ease the pain. So, that's kind of how I got to songwriting - quite honestly out of desperation. Mary Gauthier
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Once I got my life sorted and started to get healthy, then I was able to focus on writing. Mary Gauthier
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I think, because of the kind of writer I am, I can't do it halfway. I can't do it without dedicating my entire life to it. I have to give it a hundred percent. Mary Gauthier
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People in Ireland take in the whole song. After a long history of great singers and songwriters and poets, they are able to consume the entire song - not just the external; they go inside. Mary Gauthier
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Songs have been my greatest teachers and continue to be really important in my life. Mary Gauthier
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I got issues. Boy, have I got issues. Mary Gauthier
Boy Got Issues
I don't really write for catharsis; I get that kind of work done in therapy. Mary Gauthier
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I've come to terms with the fact that I'll probably be in therapy all of my life. Mary Gauthier
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I think Bob Dylan showed us that songs can rise to the level of literature, and he proved it over and over again. That's why they keep trying to get him a Nobel Prize for literature: because there is no Nobel Prize for songwriting. Mary Gauthier
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My experience is that the universal is the personal. If you can get past your navel-gazing into the deepest part of yourself as a writer, you find everyone - we're all there. Mary Gauthier
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When I became a songwriter, it was out of some sort of desperation. I needed to create something. I had to latch on to something, and the guitar was what I grabbed. Mary Gauthier
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