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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
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Songwriter
Jackson
Tennessee
Valerie June Hockett
Might
Well
Going
Good
Stuck
People
Somewhere
Forever
Around
Wells

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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 must stay true to myself and take my own path all the way.
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Memphis held onto me until I was far enough along in my art and then it let me go.
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Amalgamation is a good word that I like to use - musically and in every way.
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There are so many different versions of Tennessee Waltz and they're all so good.
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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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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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Even though I like looking good - don't get me wrong - but if I don't want to, I don't have to.
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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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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 like performing live more than anything. I get a little bit afraid in the studio.
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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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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'm grateful that music has been a place where I've found freedom.
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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.
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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!
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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'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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As a woman especially I've found a lot of freedom in music.
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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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