Natalie Merchant Quotes

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• I've raised my daughter with no television.
• Poetry comes alive to me through recitation.
• I’ve always considered it a great privilege to be a musician, I’ve never lost sight of that.
• I think the most enduring lesson I was taught through my experiences of being a Girl Scout was that I was a member of a…
• I feel we all have the obligation, myself. I want to live in a more humane, civilized society, and I feel like the only way…
• I've walked these streets, in a carnival of sights to see. All the cheap thrill seekers, the vendors & the dealers, they crowded around me.…
• Im going to be shaking my booty when Im 55.
• I was shy. Bookish. The kind of 13-year-old girl who, instead of having a boyfriend, would have a crush on a dead, 19th-century author!
• Be true to yourself, and, um, don't worry about some large companies' quarterly profit index.
• Literature gives us a window into other people's experiences in other places, in other times, so I thought it would be really interesting to investigate…
• I can't remove the autobiographical slant from the things I write. You always bring yourself into what you're writing.
• I don't think women's prisons are environments for dance routines, and I don't think mass murder is humorous.
• I don't want to live in a culture of despair. I'd like to live in a culture of hope.
• I wish I had appreciated my youth - I should have worn tighter clothing when I could have!
• I would say I'd rather dig a ditch, you know, do hard, manual labor than write lyrics.
• I'm on this search trying to figure out exactly who I am and what I have to say to people.
• It's funny, I remember doing the Johnny Carson show, and, uh, I couldn't afford my rent.
• It's really wonderful to be able to be nobody, and then have a moment when I can be somebody, and then go right back to…
• The research phase was really fascinating - I'm not a closeted nerd, I'm an out-of-the-closet nerd.
• I think of myself as a musician and not a celebrity. Celebrity status is something you have to deliberately pursue - I couldn't imagine myself…

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