Song Quotes by Michelle Shocked

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…

— Michelle Shocked

My grandmother had a Miss Margaret's School of Dance to teach tap and ballet to kids, but I never studied it. I was raised…

— Michelle Shocked

The secret to a long life is knowin' when it's time to go.

— Michelle Shocked

As I look back over my life, before I had any real identity, I was a traveler. I grew up an Army brat, a…

— Michelle Shocked

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…

— Michelle Shocked

When I grow up I want to be an old woman.

— Michelle Shocked

I walked along that slippery slope where if you fail through lack of faith, you sell your soul to the devil.

— Michelle Shocked

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…

— Michelle Shocked

I'm passionate about two things: Jesus and liberation.

— Michelle Shocked

"What the hell'd you let them break your spirit for?" You know, their lives ran in circles so small. Ah, they thought they'd seen…

— Michelle Shocked

If I'm going to be held captive by social media, I'm going to use it against itself.

— Michelle Shocked

Make your own music. It can be done.

— Michelle Shocked

Music is not a commodity, it's a resource.

— Michelle Shocked

I'm too shy, really to be able to hang out with my heroes for too long.

— Michelle Shocked

I resent like hell that I was maybe eighteen before I ever heard the 'L' word. It would have made all the difference for…

— Michelle Shocked