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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.
Valerie June
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Faith ever says, If Thou wilt, not If Thou canst.
Martin Luther
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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?
Valerie June
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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.
Valerie June
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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.
Valerie June
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I feel a lot of cities are like, you go and you are trying to do your art, and there are so many other artists there who are so brilliant. And it's kind of like they stomp on the scene, and they are like, You're not already Picasso? Get the hell out of here! And Memphis is like, Well, you'll get there one day!
Valerie June
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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.
Valerie June
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Memphis held onto me until I was far enough along in my art and then it let me go.
Valerie June
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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.
Valerie June
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When I was a kid, I always wanted to go to Europe, to go to Africa, to go traveling.
Valerie June
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I must stay true to myself and take my own path all the way.
Valerie June
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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.
Valerie June
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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.
Valerie June
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Even though I like looking good - don't get me wrong - but if I don't want to, I don't have to.
Valerie June
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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.
Valerie June
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I create my own reality. And I'm not the only one. My reality is becoming more prominent.
Valerie June
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I don't even want to call it God. I just want to call it connecting with something that's greater than I am. So that's the biggest thing from Tennessee - the spirit.
Valerie June
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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.
Valerie June
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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.
Valerie June
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I like performing live more than anything. I get a little bit afraid in the studio.
Valerie June
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There are so many different versions of Tennessee Waltz and they're all so good.
Valerie June
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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.
Valerie June
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I still like to go to record stores, I like to just wander around and I'll buy whatever catches my attention.
Bruce Springsteen
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My general approach to making art making hasn't changed much since I was 20, poor, and writing songs in my bedroom wanting to get my art out of my body into the world in some way.
Dave Malloy
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