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Michelle Shocked

"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."

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"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."

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"Once you are dancing with the devil, the prettiest capers won't help you."

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"The job of feets is walking, but their hobby is dancing."

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"Love is a dance."

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"If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance."

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"Until quite recently dance in America was the ragged Cinderella of the arts."

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"We got on American Bandstand, where kids would dance to a record and then rate it. We called ourselves Tom and Jerry. I was Jerry."

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"Dance on the stage of life with love in your heart, a smile on your face, and a great vision in your mind."

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"I never really did any disco dancing."

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"Disco dancing is just the steady thump of a giant moron knocking in an endless nail."

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"If you live in the elite world of dance, you find yourself in a world rife with racism. Let's face it."

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Michelle Shocked
"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."

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Michelle Shocked
"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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Michelle Shocked
"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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Michelle Shocked
"Make your own music. It can be done."

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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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Michelle Shocked
"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."

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"I'm a perfectionist, which I think is a mistake."

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"Music is not a commodity, it's a resource."

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Michelle Shocked
"I walked along that slippery slope where if you fail through lack of faith, you sell your soul to the devil."

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Michelle Shocked
"I think people have to choose between living with contradictions or painting themselves into a corner. I have a lot of contradictions."

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