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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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Valerie June
Age: 42
Born: 1982
Born: January 10
Banjoist
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Songwriter
Jackson
Tennessee
Valerie June Hockett
Live
Little
Studio
Like
Studios
Performing
Afraid
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Littles
Anything

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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.
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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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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 dont marry bandmates just to go marrying bandmates.
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Amalgamation is a good word that I like to use - musically and in every 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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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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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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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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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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When I was a kid, I always wanted to go to Europe, to go to Africa, to go traveling.
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Whatever people are doing, they're probably going to be doing it five years from now. You have your banker, your general store runner, the principal of the school, and things of that sort. It's nice to see that, and to get old with other people.
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I'm grateful that music has been a place where I've found freedom.
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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'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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If you're going to be stuck somewhere forever, you might as well be around good people!
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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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There are so many different versions of Tennessee Waltz and they're all so good.
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