Valerie June Quotes - Page 2

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• If my parents hadn't been made to do that from living in the Bible Belt, maybe it wouldn't be something that matters to me - maybe I wouldn't even know how to talk to God.

  Valerie June

  Parent, Matter, Made

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• I know a lot of people that don't pray or anything, and that's fine - but I need to. I don't even want to call it prayer, I just want to call it talking to something bigger than me.

  Valerie June

  Prayer, Talking, People

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• I don't even want to call it God. I just want to call it connecting with something that's greater than I am. So that's the biggest thing from Tennessee - the spirit.

  Valerie June

  Tennessee, Want, Spirit

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• I mean, roots musicians - we can get old, you know? We can get up there and wear overalls and deliver the songs, we don't have to look any certain way.

  Valerie June

  Song, Mean, Roots

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• If you want to get broken in good, put four girls on the road together in a van and tour up and down the country.

  Valerie June

  Girl, Country, Broken

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• When I was a kid, I always wanted to go to Europe, to go to Africa, to go traveling.

  Valerie June

  Kids, Europe, Wanted

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• The point is to raise your voice and be heard to God. You really are just celebrating being in the presence of other people that believe the same things you believe.

  Valerie June

  Believe, Voice, People

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• I think it's funny how people get confused when they think about church music, because a lot of times there is a soloist who stands out, but my church wasn't like that at all.

  Valerie June

  Confused, Thinking, Church Music

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• Memphis held onto me until I was far enough along in my art and then it let me go.

  Valerie June

  Art, Memphis, Enough

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• If you're going to be stuck somewhere forever, you might as well be around good people!

  Valerie June

  People, Forever, Might

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• When I talk about music in Memphis, it's a place you can go if you are a beginning artist or anywhere in your career, and you can incubate.

  Valerie June

  Artist, Careers, Memphis

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• I feel a lot of cities are like, you go and you are trying to do your art, and there are so many other artists there who are so brilliant. And it's kind of like they stomp on the scene, and they are like, "You're not already Picasso? Get the hell out of here!" And Memphis is like, "Well, you'll get there one day!"

  Valerie June

  Art, Cities, Trying

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• Even the sad roots songs have a lot of good stories to them, and the murder ballads are good too. I mean, who doesn't like to watch a nice gory murder film on TV?

  Valerie June

  Song, Nice, Mean

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• There are a lot of murder ballads out there, but most of them are about killing the woman. I was like, "We've gotta turn this around!"

  Valerie June

  Murder, Killing, Ballads

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• There are so many different versions of "Tennessee Waltz" and they're all so good.

  Valerie June

  Different, Tennessee, Waltz

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• Even from when I was in grade school or church or wherever, I was always like: we're one, and we should respect each other and grow as one. And respect each other's diversity, of course.

  Valerie June

  School, Diversity, Church

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