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“Making music should not be left to the professionals.”
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Michelle Shocked
#Should Quotes
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“When I grow up I want to be an old woman.”
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Michelle Shocked
Source : Song: When I Grow Up, Album: Short Sharp Shocked
#Growing Up Quotes
#Want Quotes
#Grows Quotes
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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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Michelle Shocked
#Thinking Quotes
#People Quotes
#Painting Quotes
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“Punk is just as much a form of folk music as anything is!”
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Michelle Shocked
#Punk Quotes
#Form Quotes
#Folks Quotes
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“Vengeance and revenge are just two words for pain.”
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Michelle Shocked
Source : Song: Quality Of Mercy
#Pain Quotes
#Revenge Quotes
#Two Quotes
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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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Michelle Shocked
#Life Changing Quotes
#Accepted Quotes
#Changing My Life Quotes
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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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Michelle Shocked
#School Quotes
#Kids Quotes
#Grandmother Quotes
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“The secret to a long life is knowin' when it's time to go.”
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Michelle Shocked
#Long Quotes
#Secret Quotes
#Life Is Quotes
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“I resent like hell that I was maybe eighteen before I ever heard the 'L' word. It would have made all the difference for me had I grown up knowing that the reason I didn't fit in was because they hadn't told me there were more categories to fit into.”
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Michelle Shocked
#Differences Quotes
#Knowing Quotes
#Hell Quotes
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“Make your own music. It can be done.”
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Michelle Shocked
#Done Quotes
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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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Michelle Shocked
#Inspirational Quotes
#Life Quotes
#Long Quotes
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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 challenge. When they call you difficult, it is a reflection of the imbalance of power.”
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Michelle Shocked
#Reflection Quotes
#Artist Quotes
#Tyrants Quotes
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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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Michelle Shocked
#Hero Quotes
#Firefighter Quotes
#Long Quotes
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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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Michelle Shocked
#Soul Quotes
#Devil Quotes
#Slippery Slope Quotes
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“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 point -- I really shouldnt say their -- cause its mine too, we are nearly at the end of time and from our vantage point, were going to be I think maybe Chinese Water torture is going to be the means the method, once Prop 8 gets instated and once preachers are held at gunpoint and forced to marry the homosexuals, Im pretty sure that that will be the signal for Jesus to come on back.”
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Michelle Shocked
#Jesus Quotes
#Prayer Quotes
#Mean Quotes
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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, they thought they'd seen it all. And they could not make a place for a girl who'd seen the ocean.”
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Michelle Shocked
Source : Song: Memories of East Texas, Album: Short Sharp Shocked
#Girl Quotes
#Ocean Quotes
#Circles Quotes
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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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Michelle Shocked
#Real Quotes
#Army Quotes
#Identity Quotes
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“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.”
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Michelle Shocked
#Mean Quotes
#Careers Quotes
#Sailing Quotes
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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.”
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Michelle Shocked
#Writing Quotes
#Acceptance Quotes
#Past Quotes
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“Their lives ran in circles so small They thought they'd seen it all”
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Michelle Shocked
#Philosophical Quotes
#Circles Quotes
#Ran Quotes
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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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Michelle Shocked
#Dark Quotes
#Joy Quotes
#Dark Times Quotes
