Mark Edwards Quotes, Sayings, Remarks, Thoughts and Speeches
Mark Edwards Quotes and Sayings
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At the time I attempted to purchase the rights back for the 3 Homestead records, but the owner demanded an outrageous sum in the neighborhood of $10,000, about 10 times more money than I could get my hands on at the time.
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Cleveland is the place I grew up and lived much of my adult life, so it will always be a part of my soul.
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Each of my records has a different focus, a different theme.
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Everyone has other projects, other commitments, all with more upside for them than playing with a controlling old indie rock guy.
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I also spend a lot of time on political blogs, and music blogs getting things for my radio show.
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I am pretty detached from the local music crowd though.
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I don't think my music is changed enough. There are many songs that I end up scrapping because they sound too much like something I've done before.
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I followed most of the 80's bands into the 90's as most of those folks who hadn't moved away were all still active. However, there was a point when I lost track of the new bands coming up.
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I have always abhorred the business end of music.
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I occasionally miss big city things, like major league baseball, a large art museum, more choices when shopping for musical equipment etc.
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I pretty much ignored politics all through my 20's and 30's... I had other things on my mind... the band, finding a meaningful relationship, getting enough money to eat and pay the rent.
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I probably had the most fun recording For Richer For Poorer in Nashville.
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I tried for several months last year to put together a band for live performance, but could never get everyone together on a consistent basis.
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In my mid 30's, after a decade or so of giving full time to the music thing and finding myself with about $10 in the bank and no assets other than my musical equipment, I realized I needed to get serious about making a living.
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It was a serendipitous arrangement, and I now have enough income that I am not in danger of homelessness if the next record doesn't make money.
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Many of the songs on the new record underwent drastic changes in arrangement, tempo and dynamics with the addition of the other band members.
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Mostly though this desire just springs from an idea for a guitar lead, or vocal melody etc. that I come up with well after the recording is finished.
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Of course I don't miss the snow, the dirty air, the poverty, crime etc. The longer I'm away from it, the harder it seems to be to go back.
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Primarily I met my wife in Chapel Hill in 1997. We kept up a long distance relationship for a couple of years before I moved here permanently in 2000.
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The turning point for me was when the Supreme Court installed Bush in 2000, even though he got half a million votes less nationally than Gore. It was nothing more than a bloodless coup and that's when I really started paying attention.
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There's nothing remotely interesting to me about marketing music as a product.
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They lyrical content has grown more introspective and less abstract. I don't know if that's good or bad... Sometimes it feels a little raw to be putting so much of myself out there.
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This gave me an out of the contract and I decided not to do the record with Homestead. After that, they stopped sending me statements.
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To me, all war is failure for humanity, though it often is a bounty for commerce.
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You can't get away from who you are I guess.
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