Tift Merritt
Tift Merritt
Catherine Tift Merrittis an American singer-songwriter, and musician. With her longtime band, she has built what has been called a "unique" and critically acclaimed body of work of "sonic short stories and poignant performances." She has been compared to artists like Joni Mitchell and Emmylou Harris...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMusician
Date of Birth8 January 1975
CountryUnited States of America
whine
I think that there are a lot of things that come along with being a musician, but I don't want to whine about them. I don't want to complain about my job.
alone anonymous clothes experience france opposite wore wrote
France was very opposite of the show-business experience I'd been living; I was anonymous and alone. I wore no makeup, wore the same clothes every day. And I wrote and wrote and wrote.
performer writer
My point of view as a writer has to be a lot more ego-less than just like being some performer on stage with a hairdo.
I'm a writer, first and foremost, and I sort of take my cues from the songwriters of the '70s, who are talking about what's really important to them.
anyone apologize ask cannot scary thinks
I think you have to ask questions that are scary to ask, and you cannot apologize for that, and you cannot worry what anyone else thinks about your journey.
I think, at the end of the day, I have an outsider's heart.
definitely love music
I really love music, and I definitely love playing music and getting to be a part of music.
I don't want to be overly philosophical, but I think there are things you earn for yourself as you go.
inner life metaphor
I think you need a concrete, real-world metaphor to talk about inner life without feeling like a jerk.
ford travel van
I travel in a Ford Econoline van with a trailer. So it's not quite so glamorous.
cover homemade opposed seventeen takes
I was thinking about how a playlist is really so inadequate as opposed to a mixtape because it takes seventeen days to really make a mixtape with a homemade cover that you like and that you'd give away.
I wanted to dedicate myself completely to the things that matter to me and let everything else go, and I think that's a really rewarding thing.
awesome great hours minutes music night spending stage time
Music is like a really sacred, awesome thing. That first 45 minutes to two hours that you're on stage spending time with music every night is always really great.
letting love
As much as I love being a singer-songwriter, I love throwing down on stage and letting it all out.