Michelle Shocked Quotes
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Punk is just as much a form of folk music as anything is!
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As I look back over my life, before I had any real identity, I was a traveler. I grew up an Army brat, a runaway, an activist, and a musician. All my life I've been traveling.
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The secret to a long life is knowin' when it's time to go.
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People might say I'm difficult, but did you ever hear anyone describe a label as 'difficult'? By nature, artists should challenge. When they call you difficult, it is a reflection of the imbalance of power.
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Ideals are not something I can control. It's not logic that convinces me of something, it's what my heart says. My heart has a way of involving me in things, which can only be good for the music.
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Everyone thinks young people are alienated from the system. But when you present them with a viable alternative, they will be the first to take it. And then watch out.
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I try to look at this music career thing as the means to an end. And really, at the end of it, I see myself on a sailboat, sailing off the edge of the world.
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I was in a prayer meeting yesterday. You gotta appreciate how scared, how scares folks on that side of the equation are. From their vantage point -- I really shouldnt say their -- cause its mine too, we are nearly at the end of time and from our vantage point, were going to be I think maybe Chinese Water torture is going to be the means the method, once Prop 8 gets instated and once preachers are held at gunpoint and forced to marry the homosexuals, Im pretty sure that that will be the signal for Jesus to come on back.
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Making music should not be left to the professionals.
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I've been through some dark times but I've experienced joy too. Now that joy can't be suppressed.
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What kind of religion is it that would encourage the parent to shelter the child from any outside influences and punish it by putting it out in a world you never had any way of learning about?
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I can't tell you where I'm going . . . but I can tell you where I come from.
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I regard myself as a true American musician, and I play every style that is my heritage.
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Writing and singing does give me some kind of release from the demons of my past, it is a therapy of sorts, but to be honest, my marriage played a more important role in the acceptance of myself than performance has ever done.
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Prayer is so incredibly powerful. It keeps you in perfect peace.
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The love that I pray every day is manifest through me. Not because I'm a loving person, but because the God that I serve loves everybody.
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We've come a long way, we've come a long way and we never even left L.A.
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I think people have to choose between living with contradictions or painting themselves into a corner. I have a lot of contradictions.
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If I'm going to be held captive by social media, I'm going to use it against itself.
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Vengeance and revenge are just two words for pain.
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I'm one of the few that comes from this vantage point: I never tried to get a record deal.
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Their lives ran in circles so small They thought they'd seen it all
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Mainstream media would convince you that there's commercial culture and that's all - but this other music is still here.
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I accepted a change in my life. I didn't choose that change and those are the best changes to make.
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The thing I fail to do is fully comprehend what's given back to me by the audience. You would think you would be a performer partly so you could feel all the appreciation or adulation, but I haven't quite managed that yet.
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Make your own music. It can be done.
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Music is not a commodity, it's a resource.
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I'm too shy, really to be able to hang out with my heroes for too long.
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They sign a bunch of women, and they call it a movement. I don't like the way women in music have been identified as women first and musicians second.
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I resent like hell that I was maybe eighteen before I ever heard the 'L' word. It would have made all the difference for me had I grown up knowing that the reason I didn't fit in was because they hadn't told me there were more categories to fit into.
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