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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.
Valerie June
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Valerie June
Age: 42
Born: 1982
Born: January 10
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There are so many different versions of Tennessee Waltz and they're all so good.
Valerie June
Memphis held onto me until I was far enough along in my art and then it let me go.
Valerie June
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.
Valerie June
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!
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'm not religious, but I am spiritual and I am creating my own practice.
Valerie June
Amalgamation is a good word that I like to use - musically and in every way.
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
Im constantly being inspired by the old days and taking things from the past and allowing them to lift me up where I am now.
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
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
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
If you're going to be stuck somewhere forever, you might as well be around good people!
Valerie June
I am always excited about playing in front of live audiences because I really enjoy it, for the most part.
Valerie June
I just love music, and I absorbed what I love.
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 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
I dont marry bandmates just to go marrying bandmates.
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
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.
Valerie June
