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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
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Singer-Songwriter
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Tennessee
Valerie June Hockett
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Amalgamation is a good word that I like to use - musically and in every way.
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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 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 dont marry bandmates just to go marrying bandmates.
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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 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 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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I don't even want to call it God. I just want to call it connecting with something that's greater than I am. So that's the biggest thing from Tennessee - the spirit.
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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 met PJ Harvey when I was in England, and the first thing I want to do when I meet a songwriter I admire is to ask them how do they receive songs.
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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.
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The point is to raise your voice and be heard to God. You really are just celebrating being in the presence of other people that believe the same things you believe.
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I'm grateful that music has been a place where I've found freedom.
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I'm not religious, but I am spiritual and I am creating my own practice.
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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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