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Michelle Shocked Quotes
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, an activist, and a musician. All my life Ive been traveling. - Michelle Shocked Quotes
I accepted a change in my life. I didnt choose that change and those are the best changes to make. - Michelle Shocked Quotes
I think people have to choose between living with contradictions or painting themselves into a corner. I have a lot of contradictions. - Michelle Shocked Quotes
I think the word soul has gotta come into it. Music thats created just for consuming lacks that soul, that swing, that feeling. - Michelle Shocked Quotes
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 on a sailboat, sailing off the edge of the world. - Michelle Shocked Quotes
I walked along that slippery slope where if you fail through lack of faith, you sell your soul to the devil. - Michelle Shocked Quotes
Im a perfectionist, which I think is a mistake. - Michelle Shocked Quotes
Im one of the few that comes from this vantage point: I never tried to get a record deal. - Michelle Shocked Quotes
Im too shy, really to be able to hang out with my heroes for too long. - Michelle Shocked Quotes
Ive been through some dark times but Ive experienced joy too. Now that joy cant be suppressed. - Michelle Shocked Quotes
Ideals are not something I can control. Its not logic that convinces me of something, its what my heart says. My heart has a way of involving me in things, which can only be good for the music. - Michelle Shocked Quotes
Make your own music. It can be done. - Michelle Shocked Quotes
Music is not a commodity, its a resource. - Michelle Shocked Quotes
Music is too important to be left to professionals. - Michelle Shocked Quotes
My grandmother had a Miss Margarets School of Dance to teach tap and ballet to kids, but I never studied it. I was raised a Mormon and theyre dancing fools. Its the only vice they have - dancing. - Michelle Shocked Quotes
People might say Im difficult, but did you ever hear anyone describe a label as difficult? By nature, artists should challenge. When they call you difficult, it is a reflection of the imbalance of power. - Michelle Shocked Quotes
The thing I fail to do is fully comprehend whats 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 havent quite managed that yet. - Michelle Shocked Quotes
They sign a bunch of women, and they call it a movement. I dont like the way women in music have been identified as women first and musicians second. - Michelle Shocked Quotes
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 honest, my marriage played a more important role in the acceptance of myself than performance has ever done. - Michelle Shocked Quotes
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