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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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Valerie June
Age: 42
Born: 1982
Born: January 10
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Tennessee
Valerie June Hockett
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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 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 must stay true to myself and take my own path all the way.
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Amalgamation is a good word that I like to use - musically and in every way.
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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 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!
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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 dont marry bandmates just to go marrying bandmates.
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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'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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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
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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I like performing live more than anything. I get a little bit afraid in the studio.
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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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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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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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Sometimes when you're in a more fast-paced place, with more to see and do, you miss out on things like nature and beautiful, God-made things. They call it God's country!
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I just love music, and I absorbed what I love.
Valerie June
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
Even from when I was in grade school or church or wherever, I was always like: we're one, and we should respect each other and grow as one. And respect each other's diversity, of course.
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