Michelle Shocked Quotes

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• Their lives ran in circles so small They thought they'd seen it all
• Writing and singing does give me some kind of release from the demons of my past, it is a therapy of sorts, but to be…
• I try to look at this music career thing as the means to an end. And really, at the end of it, I see myself…
• As I look back over my life, before I had any real identity, I was a traveler. I grew up an Army brat, a runaway,…
• "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 it…
• When I grow up I want to be an old woman.
• Making music should not be left to the professionals.
• I was in a prayer meeting yesterday. You gotta appreciate how scared, how scares folks on that side of the equation are. From their vantage…
• I walked along that slippery slope where if you fail through lack of faith, you sell your soul to the devil.
• I'm too shy, really to be able to hang out with my heroes for too long.
• People might say I'm difficult, but did you ever hear anyone describe a label as 'difficult'? By nature, artists should challenge. When they call you…
• We've come a long way, we've come a long way and we never even left L.A.
• Punk is just as much a form of folk music as anything is!
• Vengeance and revenge are just two words for pain.
• I accepted a change in my life. I didn't choose that change and those are the best changes to make.
• 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 a…
• I think people have to choose between living with contradictions or painting themselves into a corner. I have a lot of contradictions.
• Make your own music. It can be done.
• Music is too important to be left to professionals.
• I think the word soul has gotta come into it. Music that's created just for consuming lacks that soul, that swing, that feeling.

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