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Michelle Shocked

"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 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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A.E. Samaan

"One must indeed test the strings to this life, bounce the bow, wet the mouthpiece, prepare for the deeper music that follows."

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A.E. Samaan

"There is nothing in the world so much like prayer as music is."

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A.E. Samaan

"88% of what we call good songs aren't really good. They merely remind us of a good time we once had."

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A.E. Samaan

"Miranda raised her eyebrows. Apparently she hadn't figured me for a country music fan. I liked her for that."

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A.E. Samaan

"Music reveals the deepest beauty of the soul."

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A.E. Samaan

"We could argue about what constitutes the creepiest line in pop music, but for me it's early Beatles- John Lennon, actually- singing 'I'd rather see you dead, little girl, than to be with another man."

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A.E. Samaan

"Music fills the void between the heart and soul and connects them in heavenly delights."

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A.E. Samaan

"Music is the fastest motivator in the world."

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A.E. Samaan

"I listen to music constantly while writing."

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A.E. Samaan

"Music has the ability to express in the upbeat every brilliant aspect of existence, while on the downbeat convey the anguish that a human being experiences when apprehending the fleeting nature of time, and the mysterious torture of living and dying. Music stands alone in its ability to communicate the symbols and phases of life, both being and nonbeing."

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Michelle Shocked
"I'm too shy, really to be able to hang out with my heroes for too long."

Heroes

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

Mistake

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Michelle Shocked
"Music is too important to be left to professionals."

Music

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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."

Dance

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Michelle Shocked
"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."

Life

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Michelle Shocked
"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."

Music

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

Music

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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
"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."

Music

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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."

Marriage

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