Valerie June Quotes
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If you're going to be stuck somewhere forever, you might as well be around good people!
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Memphis held onto me until I was far enough along in my art and then it let me go.
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I think it's funny how people get confused when they think about church music, because a lot of times there is a soloist who stands out, but my church wasn't like that at all.
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I mean, roots musicians - we can get old, you know? We can get up there and wear overalls and deliver the songs, we don't have to look any certain way.
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The point is to raise your voice and be heard to God. You really are just celebrating being in the presence of other people that believe the same things you believe.
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I just have to do prayers and meditation and affirmations to myself as I go throughout the day, and that's the only way I'm able to make it through some days.
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I'm not religious, but I am spiritual and I am creating my own practice.
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I love to read things that have moral messages, and I love to hear stories where it's not just a hook, you have to follow the story, you have to listen to the message of the song, and get it and use it in your everyday life.
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I met PJ Harvey when I was in England, and the first thing I want to do when I meet a songwriter I admire is to ask them how do they receive songs.
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I dont marry bandmates just to go marrying bandmates.
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If my parents hadn't been made to do that from living in the Bible Belt, maybe it wouldn't be something that matters to me - maybe I wouldn't even know how to talk to God.
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There are so many different versions of "Tennessee Waltz" and they're all so good.
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They're all personal and self-created challenges that I think I've overcome within myself. Being confident enough to get on stage and play, things like that.
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There are a lot of murder ballads out there, but most of them are about killing the woman. I was like, "We've gotta turn this around!"
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Even the sad roots songs have a lot of good stories to them, and the murder ballads are good too. I mean, who doesn't like to watch a nice gory murder film on TV?
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I'm grateful that music has been a place where I've found freedom.
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When I think about singing, and music, I think about how the people who live on the East Tennessee side have more of a curve or yodel to their voices, and then you think about the curve of mountains.
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As a woman especially I've found a lot of freedom in music.
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I like performing live more than anything. I get a little bit afraid in the studio.
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My challenges have not been around music. My hardest thing in music was just sitting down and teaching myself how to play and believing in myself.
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I create my own reality. And I'm not the only one. My reality is becoming more prominent.
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Amalgamation is a good word that I like to use - musically and in every way.
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When I talk about music in Memphis, it's a place you can go if you are a beginning artist or anywhere in your career, and you can incubate.
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I know a lot of people that don't pray or anything, and that's fine - but I need to. I don't even want to call it prayer, I just want to call it talking to something bigger than me.
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I've always kind of been in the middle of every room, trying to get people together, no matter what color they were.
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I must stay true to myself and take my own path all the way.
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As I try to get around with a guitar, a banjo and a suitcase of high heels and dresses, I treasure that little ukulele.
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Im constantly being inspired by the old days and taking things from the past and allowing them to lift me up where I am now.
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If you want to get broken in good, put four girls on the road together in a van and tour up and down the country.
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I try to write down every song that comes to me, even though I know that every song that comes to me isnt a song that I need to sing.
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