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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.

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
Music
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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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I must stay true to myself and take my own path all the way.
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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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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 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.
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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 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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