Michelle Shocked Quotes

• Making music should not be left to the professionals.

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  Music, Should, Left

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• The secret to a long life is knowin' when it's time to go.

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  Long, Secret, Long Life

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• When I grow up I want to be an old woman.

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  Growing Up, Want, Grows

  Song: When I Grow Up, Album: Short Sharp Shocked

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• I'm passionate about two things: Jesus and liberation.

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  Jesus, Two, Passionate

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• Make your own music. It can be done.

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  Done

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• Music is too important to be left to professionals.

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  Important, Music Is, Left

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• Prayer is so incredibly powerful. It keeps you in perfect peace.

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  Prayer, Powerful, Perfect

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• I believe in the power of music. I believe in it absolutely. It's never failed me. Never.

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  Believe, I Believe, Power Of Music

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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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  Jesus, Prayer, Mean

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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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  Thinking, People, Painting

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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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  Inspirational, Funny, Mean

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• 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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  Praying, Manifest, Loving Person

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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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  Inspirational, Life, Long

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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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  Life Changing, Accepted, Changing My Life

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• Vengeance and revenge are just two words for pain.

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  Pain, Revenge, Two

  Song: Quality Of Mercy

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• If I'm going to be held captive by social media, I'm going to use it against itself.

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  Media, Use, Social

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• Punk is just as much a form of folk music as anything is!

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  Punk, Form, Folks

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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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  Artist, Reflection, Tyrants

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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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  Appreciation, Thinking, Would Be

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• 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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  Mistake, Apology, Want

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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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  Heart, Way, Logic

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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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  Musician, Movement, Way

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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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  Girl, Ocean, Circles

  Song: Memories of East Texas, Album: Short Sharp Shocked

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• I can't tell you where I'm going . . . but I can tell you where I come from.

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  I Can

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• 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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  Children, Parent, World

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