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Portrait of Grace Potter

Grace Potter

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Grace Potter describes swapping jeans and cowboy boots for miniskirts, gold tassels, and high heels. She mentions growing up in tutus and red shoes, and feeling competition with her mother's piano students. She says every song needs a clear beginning, middle, and end like a short story.

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Grace Potter is an American singer‑songwriter who has released five solo albums, including Red Shoe Rebel (2002) and Mother Road (2023), and four albums with her band Grace Potter and the Nocturnals.

About Grace Potter

Grace Evelyn Potter is an American singer‑songwriter and musician. She has put out five solo albums—Red Shoe Rebel (2002), Original Soul (2004), Midnight (2015), Daylight (2019) and Mother Road (2023)—and she also recorded four studio albums with the band Grace Potter and the Nocturnals, which she formed.

Quotes by Grace Potter

I hate long pants.

Hate

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I'm really into poetry.

Poetry

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Donna Summer was such a genius.

Genius

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Dr. Dog is good summer music.

Dog

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Music needs to move forward.

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I know what it takes to gain a fan.

Fan

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I think that being precious and rock and roll should never go together.

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I dance all the time. I'm almost constantly moving.

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I was kind of a troublemaker, believe it or not.

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In my mind, an album shouldn't be self-titled unless it feels that way.

Album

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For dramas, I love 'Downton Abbey.' I'm a sucker for the BBC.

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Follow your path unapologetically. Be compassionate.

Compassion

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I was a bit of a film nerd as a kid.

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Music really does make you feel better.

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Living on the road can make you feel quite displaced. Cooking a meal on the tour bus for everyone makes it home.

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When you give your life over to your touring schedule, it's so grueling, you have to have moments where you have your…

Comfort

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I loved the experience of going to the farmers' market, seeing where your food is grown, turning it into something delicious.

Experience

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I admire pop stars, and there's parts of that world I'm glad I don't have to go through. It takes a lot…

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It took a lot of years for me to get comfortable, strutting my stuff, dancing like a fool, having that sparkly dress…

Dancing

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Tearing down an old house and building a new one is the most wasteful thing we do as humans.

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Robert Plant, Kenny Chesney, Mavis Staples, Taj Mahal, this incredible array of folks, all taught me a way to carry yourself with…

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Obvious is not my forte. I take a left turn right when everybody thinks I'm going to go straight.

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The limitations and parameters of a band is something I've always enjoyed: so many creative people coming together and raising the music…

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There's nothing less sexy than a girl falling over on stage. I have fallen once, but it had nothing to do with…

Blind

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I'm very much a word-centric writer, and that comes from the literature and the reading that I did as kid and also…

Books

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I'm not capable of wielding the guitar like Jimmy Page, one of my all-time favorite guitarists. My skill set is more based…

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I've seen Coldplay live a couple of times, and you feel like you just got rained over with glorious, glowing love. That's…

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I've gone from wearing jeans and cowboy boots to wearing miniskirts and gold tassels and high heels. I'm sure I'm not going…

Change

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I think that identity and sort of the brand - I hate that word - the brand of the musician should be…

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I've gotta long list of things to do, bucket list things - play 'Saturday Night Live,' make a movie. I want a…

Bucket list

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Trends suck you in, anywhere in the world, patterns you don't even see. It's so easy. Look at Wall Street - look…

Direction

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I'm from Vermont, where to be stylish and cool is to have a dirty pair of hiking boots and know how to…

Change

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I see musicians like Bonnie Raitt and Emmylou Harris as more than just musical icons: they are planets, with a gravitational pull…

Backstage

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Food has always been a passion for me from a very young age.

Age

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The rainy season in Vermont is not long, but it definitely gets gloomy.

Gloomy

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Love yourself. Then find something to love beyond yourself.

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I love 'New Girl.' I think it's so fun.

Fun

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Ever since I was a little girl, I loved dressing up.

Dressing

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I was a general contractor when I was paying for my first record.

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I'm a very loud and outspoken creature.

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Grace Potter by topic

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