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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.

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
Prayers
Throughout
Meditation
Days
Prayer
Able
Way
Affirmations
Make
Affirmation

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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 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 like performing live more than anything. I get a little bit afraid in the studio.
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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 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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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'm grateful that music has been a place where I've found freedom.
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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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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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If you're going to be stuck somewhere forever, you might as well be around good people!
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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.
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I just love music, and I absorbed what I love.
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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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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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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 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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