David Stagg

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The Burning Ones
By David Stagg

Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright: for the end of that man is peace.

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The Devil Wears Prada

Interview with the Devil

“If people want to know me or they want to follow me or admire what I do, it’s not going to come in the form of me taking a photo of a meal or a cup of coffee and putting that on the Internet. I would much rather people read the lyrics that I write, see my performance at the Prada show, or read the stuff that I’ve been writing.”

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Memphis May Fire

Memphis May Fire Has A New Outlook on Life

“I would lay in my bunk and I would shake and I would call my wife and I’d have all these thoughts about her getting in accidents and just the worst things you could possibly imagine.”

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Beartooth

Sick Inside

“I could really care less about how many people think we’re cool. That’s not why I wrote the songs. I literally wrote them to keep my head on straight and be honest with myself in a lot of ways, because I had never been honest with myself before.”

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Tombs

Anger, Alchemy, Gold

“When you’re 22 years old, everything’s intense. Nowadays, the writing just comes more from an attempt to understand than from anger.”

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My close personal friend David Kline, a member of Knoxville’s free-flowing, improvisational music scene, wrote and directed a piece about them called Out (The Out Series Documentary). The full work is available for free to watch on YouTube.

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