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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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"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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Amber Hurdle

"I'm half Jewish, I'm half black, I look in-between. I dress funny. I play all these different styles of music on one record. It's like, What is he doing?"

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Amber Hurdle

"I think I first realized I wanted to be in country music and be an artist when I was 10. And I started dragging my parents to festivals, and fairs, and karaoke contests, and I did that for about a year before I came to Nashville for the first time. I was 11 and I had this demo CD of me singing Dixie Chicks and Leanne Rimes songs."

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Amber Hurdle

"Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder."

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Amber Hurdle

"When I first came to Nashville, people hardly gave country music any respect. We lived in old cars and dirty hotels, and we ate when we could."

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Amber Hurdle

"When there's music in your soul, there's soul in your music."

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Amber Hurdle

"It is one thing to record an album but it's a huge difference when people play it and listen to it and embrace it the way that I do. It has always been my dream to get my music out to the world and have people hear it."

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Amber Hurdle

"What is my definition of jazz? 'Safe sex of the highest order."

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Amber Hurdle

"What kind of songs do you like? she asked."The ones that remind me of you," I said."

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Amber Hurdle

"I hope America sees I am a goofy guy andI'm kind a crazy, I hope they see that I am a musician aswell, that I have music all around my body - I'm just exfoliating music, and I just hope America sees that."

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Amber Hurdle

"It was very satisfying knowing I could come in not really knowing what I was going to do, and at the end of the session feeling that I'd really done interesting guitar work and knowing that I'd really contributed to the music."

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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
"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."

Appreciation

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

Music

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

Music

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

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."

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

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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."

People

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Michelle Shocked
"I've been through some dark times but I've experienced joy too. Now that joy can't be suppressed."

Joy

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