Top 44 Michelle Shocked Quotes
#1. I'm one of the few that comes from this vantage point: I never tried to get a record deal.
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#3. Mainstream media would convince you that there's commercial culture and that's all - but this other music is still here.
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#4. 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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#8. 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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#9. 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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#10. We've come a long way, we've come a long way and we never even left L.A.
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#11. 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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#12. Prayer is so incredibly powerful. It keeps you in perfect peace.
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#13. 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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#15. Would ya like to
" Iain paused, shocked as the pretty woman turned and hurried away from him. To himself, he finished, "Get a drink with me?
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#16. 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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#17. If I have something to apologize, I want to be the first one to step up and make that apology. I don't want anyone to broker it for me. I don't want anyone to take the hit for me. If I have anything to apologize for, I'm only human. I'm prone to making mistakes.
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#18. 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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#19. 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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#20. A road-wise folkie with a bluesy soul reminiscent of early Michelle Shocked, Melissa Crabtree is an original storyteller and performer not to be missed.
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#21. 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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#22. I regard myself as a true American musician, and I play every style that is my heritage.
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#23. At one time I was a nihilistic punk with a mohican and a ring in my nose. I think in the course of time I'll find a middle ground, but I also carry that sense of responsibility. I'm in a position to defeat stereotypes.
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#24. I can't tell you where I'm going ... but I can tell you where I come from.
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#26. Angus skidded to a stop and lifted his jaw as if sensing he was being watched. He looked in her direction and instantly covered his manhood as his eyes caught Jane's shocked face in the tree limbs. "Oh, lassie."
"Oh, naked man," Jane teased before she could stop herself.
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#27. What kind of religion is it that would encourage the parent to shelter the child from any outside influences and punish it by putting it out in a world you never had any way of learning about?
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#28. I'm too shy, really to be able to hang out with my heroes for too long.
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#29. I've been through some dark times but I've experienced joy too. Now that joy can't be suppressed.
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#30. 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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#31. I was a massive fan of 'Twin Peaks.' Massive. I don't know how any of us grew up in this age of television and weren't astounded, and saying that, I'm still shocked that that was on network television.
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#32. The secret to a long life is knowin' when it's time to go.
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#33. If I'm going to be held captive by social media, I'm going to use it against itself.
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#35. I believe in the power of music. I believe in it absolutely. It's never failed me. Never.
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#36. "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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#37. 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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#38. The love that I pray every day is manifest through me. Not because I'm a loving person, but because the God that I serve loves everybody.
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#40. 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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#41. Their lives ran in circles so small They thought they'd seen it all
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#43. Everyone thinks young people are alienated from the system. But when you present them with a viable alternative, they will be the first to take it. And then watch out.
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#44. 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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