"The thing I fail to do is fully……" — Michelle Shocked
"The thing I fail to do is fully comprehend what's given back to me by the audience. You would think you would be a performer partly so you could feel all the appreciation or adulation, but I haven't quite managed that yet."
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27 Quotes by Michelle Shocked
Michelle Shocked has 27 quotes on this site.
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Their lives ran in circles so small They thought they'd seen it all
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Writing and singing does give me some kind of release from the demons of my past, it is a therapy…
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I try to look at this music career thing as the means to an end. And really, at the end…
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As I look back over my life, before I had any real identity, I was a traveler. I grew up…
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"What the hell'd you let them break your spirit for?" You know, their lives ran in circles so small. Ah,…
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When I grow up I want to be an old woman.
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Making music should not be left to the professionals.
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I was in a prayer meeting yesterday. You gotta appreciate how scared, how scares folks on that side of the…
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I walked along that slippery slope where if you fail through lack of faith, you sell your soul to the…
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I'm too shy, really to be able to hang out with my heroes for too long.
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People might say I'm difficult, but did you ever hear anyone describe a label as 'difficult'? By nature, artists should…
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We've come a long way, we've come a long way and we never even left L.A.
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I believe that it is possible for one to praise, without concern, any man after he is dead since every…
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