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Michelle Shocked

"I accepted a change in my life. I didn't choose that change and those are the best changes to make."

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"I accepted a change in my life. I didn't choose that change and those are the best changes to make."

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"A personality alters itself through a series of self-referential experiences. We are not the same as the day before. Much as a person can never set foot in exactly the same river on any given day, we are different each day. Yesterday made us, but the past cannot contain nor restrain us. We can never mentally scroll backward and be who we used to be. We must move forward in the stream of life until the day that our life force dries up and we return to dust."

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"We fear change because it insists we discard long held structures that no longer function suitably."

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"Make your own music. It can be done."
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"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."
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"Music is not a commodity, it's a resource."
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"They sign a bunch of women, and they call it a movement. I don't like the way women in music have been identified as women first and musicians second."
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"Music is too important to be left to professionals."
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"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."
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"I think the word soul has gotta come into it. Music that's created just for consuming lacks that soul, that swing, that feeling."
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"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."
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"I've been through some dark times but I've experienced joy too. Now that joy can't be suppressed."
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"I'm too shy, really to be able to hang out with my heroes for too long."
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