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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
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I've been through some dark times but I've experienced joy too. Now that joy can't be suppressed.
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They sign a bunch of women, and they call it a movement. I don't like the way women in music have been identified as women first and musicians second.
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I accepted a change in my life. I didn't choose that change and those are the best changes to make.
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I think people have to choose between living with contradictions or painting themselves into a corner. I have a lot of contradictions.
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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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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 Mormon and they're dancing fools. It's the only vice they have - dancing.
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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 I've been traveling.
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Ideals are not something I can control. It's not logic that convinces me of something, it's what my heart says. My heart has a way of involving me in things, which can only be good for the music.
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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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I walked along that slippery slope where if you fail through lack of faith, you sell your soul to the devil.
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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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