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Prayer is so incredibly powerful. It keeps you in perfect peace.
Michelle Shocked
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Michelle Shocked
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: February 24
Composer
Guitarist
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Singer-Songwriter
Dallas
Texas
Karen Michelle Johnston
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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've been through some dark times but I've experienced joy too. Now that joy can't be suppressed.
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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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I'm one of the few that comes from this vantage point: I never tried to get a record deal.
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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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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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When I grow up I want to be an old woman.
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I'm passionate about two things: Jesus and liberation.
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Making music should not be left to the professionals.
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The secret to a long life is knowin' when it's time to go.
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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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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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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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We've come a long way, we've come a long way and we never even left L.A.
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Punk is just as much a form of folk music as anything is!
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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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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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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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Their lives ran in circles so small They thought they'd seen it all
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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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