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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.

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
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Needs
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Bigger
Something
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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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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 must stay true to myself and take my own path all the way.
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There are so many different versions of Tennessee Waltz and they're all so good.
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I'm not religious, but I am spiritual and I am creating my own practice.
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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 from when I was in grade school or church or wherever, I was always like: we're one, and we should respect each other and grow as one. And respect each other's diversity, of course.
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I'm grateful that music has been a place where I've found freedom.
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They're all personal and self-created challenges that I think I've overcome within myself. Being confident enough to get on stage and play, things like that.
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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 am always excited about playing in front of live audiences because I really enjoy it, for the most part.
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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.
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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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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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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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If you're going to be stuck somewhere forever, you might as well be around good people!
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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 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 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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