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If you're going to be stuck somewhere forever, you might as well be around good people!
Valerie June
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Valerie June
Age: 42
Born: 1982
Born: January 10
Banjoist
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Tennessee
Valerie June Hockett
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More quotes by 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
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
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.
Valerie June
As a woman especially I've found a lot of freedom in music.
Valerie June
I like performing live more than anything. I get a little bit afraid in the studio.
Valerie June
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
I dont marry bandmates just to go marrying bandmates.
Valerie June
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
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
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.
Valerie June
I create my own reality. And I'm not the only one. My reality is becoming more prominent.
Valerie June
I can't believe the ignorance there, so I don't allow it to affect my life, I don't allow it to come into my zone, and it's not in my world, really.
Valerie June
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.
Valerie June
I have a lot of different collections of cards at home. It's hard to say my favorite deck, but there is a deck called the medicine cards, and it's Native American animal cards.
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.
Valerie June
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
When I was a kid, I always wanted to go to Europe, to go to Africa, to go traveling.
Valerie June
I must stay true to myself and take my own path all the way.
Valerie June
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!
Valerie June
Amalgamation is a good word that I like to use - musically and in every way.
Valerie June
