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Guy Charles Clark was an American folk and country singer-songwriter and luthier. He was born on November 6 1941 in Monahans, Texas, USA. He and his wife Susanna Clark eventually settled in Nashville, Tennessee, where he helped create the Americana music genre. He died on May 17 2016, aged 74, in Nashville. On his passing the New York Times described him as "a king of the Texas troubadours", declaring his body of work "as indelible as that of anyone working in the Americana idiom in the last decades of the 20th century."

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

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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.

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I have no reason to sit home and write songs all day without going out and playing for the folks. And I have no reason to go play for the folks unless I'm writing new songs so they can sort of feed off one another. And I just try to do the best I can.

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I love playing and I love singing, and the writing. There's kind of a symbiotic relationship between the writing and the playing.

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I've gone a year and not written a song just because I couldn't think of anything. But I always come back to it because there's always that little buzz you get when you do something well and sing it out loud to the public. And people clap and tell you how great you are.

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

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

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Music is supposed to be entertaining and if it touches you emotionally, so much the better. Sometimes you do it to save your own life, not anybody else's. That's why I write. I'm not trying to change anybody else's life or the world, I'm trying to keep from blowing my own brains out. That's the real point.

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Ain't no chance if you don't take it.

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I turned in my chair and it was right there in front of me. The lyrics just poured out because all it boiled down to was describing the picture.

– Guy Clark

Found on Reuters 7 years ago

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