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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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Valerie June
Age: 42
Born: 1982
Born: January 10
Banjoist
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Songwriter
Jackson
Tennessee
Valerie June Hockett
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I just love music, and I absorbed what I love.
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Amalgamation is a good word that I like to use - musically and in every way.
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I'm grateful that music has been a place where I've found freedom.
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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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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?
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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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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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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.
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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 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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There are so many different versions of Tennessee Waltz and they're all so good.
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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 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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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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I must stay true to myself and take my own path all the way.
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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 dont marry bandmates just to go marrying bandmates.
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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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Memphis held onto me until I was far enough along in my art and then it let me go.
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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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