Places People Quotes by Mary Gauthier

What I really like is this salted calamari - with jalapenos on top.

— Mary Gauthier

The world doesn't need any more pretty good songs.

— Mary Gauthier

I don't have the experience of being in a war.

— Mary Gauthier

I did not know that if a member of a family serves, the whole family serves. I did not know that the spouses of…

— Mary Gauthier

I think each veteran's soul has something that it needs to say. I know from my own personal traumas, it's very hard to know…

— Mary Gauthier

The job of the artist is to go to the places where most other people are embarrassed to go to. And show it.

— Mary Gauthier

There's an ocean of misunderstanding. It's called the civilian-military divide. I had a lot to learn about our military - who they are, what…

— Mary Gauthier

I would make a terrible soldier, because I don't follow orders.

— Mary Gauthier

I've come to terms with the fact that I'll probably be in therapy all of my life.

— Mary Gauthier

It can take me many months to write one of my own songs.

— Mary Gauthier

If you don't have a record deal, you've got to be a record company.

— Mary Gauthier

I did not know that the wounds of war are often invisible.

— Mary Gauthier

I'm a traveler and a vagabond and an observer, and the songs come through that. And that's just the way it's going to be.

— Mary Gauthier

A song is an emotional lightning bolt - a good one, anyway.

— Mary Gauthier

I think it's a stereotype that soldiers don't talk, because my experience is that they will talk if they are met with empathy and…

— Mary Gauthier