Michelle Shocked Quotes
"I'm too shy, really to be able to hang out with my heroes for too long."
- Michelle Shocked
(Related: Heroes)
"Writing and singing does give me some kind of release from the demons of my past, it is a therapy of sorts, but to be honest, my marriage played a more important role in the acceptance of myself than performance has ever done."
- Michelle Shocked
(Related: Marriage, Performance, Acceptance, Past, Singing, Therapy, Writing)
"The thing I fail to do is fully comprehend what's given back to me by the audience. You would think you would be a performer partly so you could feel all the appreciation or adulation, but I haven't quite managed that yet."
- Michelle Shocked
(Related: Appreciation)
"People might say I'm difficult, but did you ever hear anyone describe a label as 'difficult'? By nature, artists should challenge. When they call you difficult, it is a reflection of the imbalance of power."
- Michelle Shocked
(Related: Power, Nature, People, Artists, Challenge, Reflection)
"My grandmother had a Miss Margaret's School of Dance to teach tap and ballet to kids, but I never studied it. I was raised a Mormon and they're dancing fools. It's the only vice they have - dancing."
- Michelle Shocked
(Related: Dance, Ballet, Dancing, Fools, Kids, Mormon, School, Vice)
"Music is too important to be left to professionals."
- Michelle Shocked
(Related: Music, professionals)
"Music is not a commodity, it's a resource."
- Michelle Shocked
(Related: Music)
"Make your own music. It can be done."
- Michelle Shocked
(Related: Music)
"I've been through some dark times but I've experienced joy too. Now that joy can't be suppressed."
- Michelle Shocked
(Related: Joy, Now)
"I'm one of the few that comes from this vantage point: I never tried to get a record deal."
- Michelle Shocked
"I'm a perfectionist, which I think is a mistake."
- Michelle Shocked
(Related: Mistake)
"I walked along that slippery slope where if you fail through lack of faith, you sell your soul to the devil."
- Michelle Shocked
(Related: Faith, Soul, Devil)
"I try to look at this music career thing as the means to an end. And really, at the end of it, I see myself on a sailboat, sailing off the edge of the world."
- Michelle Shocked
(Related: Music, Career, End, World)
"I think the word soul has gotta come into it. Music that's created just for consuming lacks that soul, that swing, that feeling."
- Michelle Shocked
(Related: Music, Soul, Feeling, Word)
"I think people have to choose between living with contradictions or painting themselves into a corner. I have a lot of contradictions."
- Michelle Shocked
(Related: People, Living, Painting)
"I accepted a change in my life. I didn't choose that change and those are the best changes to make."
- Michelle Shocked
(Related: Change, Life)
"As I look back over my life, before I had any real identity, I was a traveler. I grew up an Army brat, a runaway, an activist, and a musician. All my life I've been traveling."
- Michelle Shocked
(Related: Life, Army, Identity, Traveling)
"Ideals are not something I can control. It's not logic that convinces me of something, it's what my heart says. My heart has a way of involving me in things, which can only be good for the music."
- Michelle Shocked
(Related: Music, Heart, Control, Ideals, Logic)