Michelle Shocked Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“I'm a perfectionist, which I think is a mistake.”

“I'm one of the few that comes from this vantage point: I never tried to get a record deal.”

“I'm too shy, really to be able to hang out with my heroes for too long.”

“I've been through some dark times but I've experienced joy too. Now that joy can't be suppressed.”

“Make your own music. It can be done.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”