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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

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Valerie June
Age: 42
Born: 1982
Born: January 10
Banjoist
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Songwriter
Jackson
Tennessee
Valerie June Hockett
Come
Believe
Really
Life
World
Affect
Zone
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Ignorance

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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'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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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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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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As I try to get around with a guitar, a banjo and a suitcase of high heels and dresses, I treasure that little ukulele.
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I must stay true to myself and take my own path all the way.
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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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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 dont marry bandmates just to go marrying bandmates.
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As a woman especially I've found a lot of freedom in music.
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I just love music, and I absorbed what I love.
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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 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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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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Amalgamation is a good word that I like to use - musically and in every way.
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When I was a kid, I always wanted to go to Europe, to go to Africa, to go traveling.
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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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If you're going to be stuck somewhere forever, you might as well be around good people!
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