Natalie Merchant Quotes
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I think of myself as a musician and not a celebrity. Celebrity status is something you have to deliberately pursue - I couldn't imagine myself seeking that.
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I would never do a printed memoir. I've been asked to publish a memoir from years by different publishers and literary agents. I think it wouldn't be great for me because all I'd really want to talk about it music and I'd rather just play it.
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I wish I had appreciated my youth - I should have worn tighter clothing when I could have!
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It's really wonderful to be able to be nobody, and then have a moment when I can be somebody, and then go right back to being nobody again.
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I've raised my daughter with no television.
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Have I been wrong? Have I been wise to shut my eyes?
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I don't think women's prisons are environments for dance routines, and I don't think mass murder is humorous.
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When it came time to sequence the album, the new arrangements really demanded a different order. They were so different than they were before that the old sequence didn't work anymore.
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I've walked these streets, in a carnival of sights to see. All the cheap thrill seekers, the vendors & the dealers, they crowded around me. Have I been blind? Have I been lost, inside myself and my own mind? Hypnotized, mesmerized, by what my eyes have seen? I've walked these streets, in a spectacle of wealth & poverty. In the diamond market, the scarlet welcome carpet that they just rolled out for me.
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I think I have a really diverse audience. I've had people from all sorts of sexual persuasions.
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I've had a large gay following for many years and have been quite aware of that.
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I don't have a lot of thrilling anecdotes about my career or personal life. All the stuff that is interesting is private and I wouldn't want people to know.
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I would say I'd rather dig a ditch, you know, do hard, manual labor than write lyrics.
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I think the most enduring lesson I was taught through my experiences of being a Girl Scout was that I was a member of a larger community. I out-grew my uniforms and badges years ago, but the memories of visiting nursing homes or organizing Earth Day tree plantings or my summers camping with girls from all different backgrounds will stay with me always.
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I go to the river from time to time to ponder over the crazy days in my life. Watch the river flow, ease my mind and soul where I go.
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The research phase was really fascinating - I'm not a closeted nerd, I'm an out-of-the-closet nerd.
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Literature gives us a window into other people's experiences in other places, in other times, so I thought it would be really interesting to investigate how different people had written about motherhood, and childhood.
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I don't want to live in a culture of despair. I'd like to live in a culture of hope.
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TV holds a close second to cars for destroying our society. It's a failed experiment.
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There is one tradition in America I am proud to inherit. It is our first freedom and the truest expression of our Americanism: the ability to dissent without fear. It is our right to utter the words, 'I disagree.' We must feel at liberty to speak those words to our neighbors, our clergy, our educators, our news media, our lawmakers and, above all, to the one among us we elect - President.
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I don't enjoy the work that I do. It's just that it's not self-sustaining anymore. The way that I like to make records - they're expensive records to make and just can't afford to do it anymore.
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Im going to be shaking my booty when Im 55.
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Life is sweet, life is also very short.
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Have I been blind, have I been lost, inside myself and my own mind?
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Be true to yourself, and, um, don't worry about some large companies' quarterly profit index.
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I've never sold my publishing. I have 100% control of all of my publishing and that includes everything, every use of my songs.
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For your kindness, I'm in debt to you. For your selflessness, my admiration.
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I've found out how overwhelming the media is and the way it drills things into your head, it's almost like a mind control. If I could control prople's minds, I'd like to put something useful in.
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I can't remove the autobiographical slant from the things I write. You always bring yourself into what you're writing.
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Poetry comes alive to me through recitation.
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