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Grace Potter

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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 · Page 2

I love cooking... I'm quite domestic.

Cooking

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Every single song I write has to feel like it has a beginning, middle, and end, like a movie or a short…

Beginning

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You shouldn't feel judged when you are dancing or singing at the top of your lungs or existing in a maximum-expression way.

Dancing

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There are daily stresses on the road, but when everyone gets fed, everyone gets happy. Simple.

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It's easy for me to write songs but hard for me to write an album; that's been my experience.

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Honestly, I don't think I ever really was a sweet country girl. I think that was a misconception about me. I was…

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I was like a closet makeup fiend as a little girl because I knew that I would be guffawed at in school…

Girl

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When I'm onstage, I have to have primer. Actually, the more primer, the less makeup I have to put on.

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My dad turned me onto Led Zeppelin, the Stones, and the Who, but Madonna and pop music came from my mom.

Dad

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I know it's strange, but I've always had a better time with other people's wild ideas. Coming up with my own is…

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As long as you have balance, you can experience all of the things going on in the world and reach out and…

Balance

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So much of myself is consumed with earning my way, doing it myself, and never feeling like things are being handed to…

Being

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My parents raised me on Spooky Tooth and The Band, Derek and the Dominoes, the Beatles, Bob Dylan, all that stuff. Rock…

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Mick Jagger knows how to run a show. It's all about pacing. It's not a sprint, it's a marathon. His output is…

Amazing

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It's funny: when I was a kid, my mom would reorganize the record collection all the time. She'd have classical, she'd have…

Female singers

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In a lot of ways, the Nocturnals are a safety net and a beautiful, beautiful blanket. All the life and music we've…

Beautiful

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When I grew up and went to school, all the cool kids were in Carhartts and Mudd boots, and they were listening…

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When we were recording 'This is Somewhere,' we were still super green, super from Vermont, super not knowing what to do.

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I always loved the piano because it's just a bunch of buttons. I like to push buttons.

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I've been singing since I could talk. I started playing the piano when I was about 5 or 6. I picked up…

Birthday

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I love a great pair of shoes, and as long as I feel like I can walk in them, I can dance…

Dance

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As a kid, I was not a tomboy; I was a total girl wearing tutus and red shoes.

Girl

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I grew up spending summer Saturdays at the local farmers' market, where my mom was a vendor. It fueled my passion for…

Food

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I love Kind bars - I seriously always have them in my purse because they're so yummy.

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Set lists are like movies. They need a great beginning, a dynamic shift in the middle, and bang at the end.

Beginning

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For all the flack that we get for becoming successful, you get people who really respect how firmly planted our feet have…

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I think I knew when I was about 2 and a half that I wanted to be a singer.

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You have to be a part of the conversation if you want to change the conversation.

Change

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There's definitely no subtlety in what I do. When you want to get your face melted, you come to a Grace Potter…

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I always think it's a little bit of a challenge when people sort of associate female artists as their own genre.

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Any time you write a song, you kind of know what you want from it. You know what you're getting from it.

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We are all just the tip of a pinprick of the millions of things that had to happen in order for us…

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I hear it all the time: 'What happened to the Grace Potter who didn't used to wear makeup?'

Grace

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I was always sort of mystified and excited about the world of country music. Something about it struck me as enchanted.

Country

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I'm quite a nurturing person, and I'm more a mom than a crazy, partying rock star.

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As a ski bum and someone who came up in a ski bum family, I understand the essence of what Colorado is…

Colorado

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When I was a kid, I listened to the Doors and the Eagles and bands like the Talking Heads, Tom Tom Club,…

Bands

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I really love what Chuck Berry did with Christmas music, and also the Rat Pack Christmas stuff, which I listened to all…

Childhood

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I don't have any kids of my own, but I love my band, and I love the people I'm around and taking…

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I usually start with a lyric or a melody and then build a song around that.

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