Meredith Brooks Quotes

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• I believe you can remember the future as much as the past

  Meredith Brooks

  Believe, Past, Remember

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• Find your authentic voice, become vulnerable, and then put yourself out there.

  Meredith Brooks

  Voice, Vulnerable, Putting Yourself Out There

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• You don't realize 'till you get here what a moment in history you're a part of.

  Meredith Brooks

  Realizing, Moments

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• I have a lot of survivor insticts, and I know when to quit. I know when to go forward it my life, but not everybody does.

  Meredith Brooks

  Doe, Survivor, Quitting

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• My favorite movie is The Wizard of Oz. I love the fairy tale of it. And Gone With the Wind was always one of my favorites because it's so dramatic and stunning.

  Meredith Brooks

  Wind, Gone, Wizards

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• I'm a humanist. I'm an observer. I have a very scientific mind. I believe metaphysics and science absolutely blended are more the truth for me. It doesn't work just believing in what somebody says.

  Meredith Brooks

  Believe, Mind, Humanist

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• I had my dysfunctions, but music gave me peace and joy. I never felt in tune with the world. My parents always saw me as an artist, and that greatly influenced me. My art was my autonomy.

  Meredith Brooks

  Art, Dysfunction, Joy

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• Everything I'm doing now is something I did before, only it's bigger now.

  Meredith Brooks

  Bigger

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• Psychology Today is probably one of my favorite magazines, Guitar, Guitar World. People.

  Meredith Brooks

  Guitar, People, Psychology

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• I don't mean that to be egotistical, but I'm not writing fluff. I'm not writing for 8-year-olds. I'm a woman and I'm a rock girl.

  Meredith Brooks

  Girl, Writing, Mean

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• I've started a project called Planet Art. The purpose will be to remind people where I really believe we came from, which was a creative planet, and that everybody can be autonomous through their art.

  Meredith Brooks

  Art, Believe, People

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• It's just that only now are women coming around, and when someone as striking as Alanis or Sheryl Crow comes out, the public just needs something to compare it to.

  Meredith Brooks

  Crow, Needs, Compare

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• If we didn't live in a society that told us we're not OK if we're not making 100 grand a year, I think we'd all be a lot happier.

  Meredith Brooks

  Thinking, Years, Ifs

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• Mackie is an electronics recording company backing me, and they're willing to invest giving equipment to schools that I choose, and they've already started doing that.

  Meredith Brooks

  School, Giving, Electronics

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• My favorite color is purple. I have a huge velvet purple comforter on my bed.

  Meredith Brooks

  Color, Purple, Bed

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• When I lived in Seattle and Oregon, we partied, which is a large reason I don't know drugs or alcohol now because I saw the Destruction of so many great musicians and artists.

  Meredith Brooks

  Artist, Oregon, Alcohol

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• I've come up against a few challenges. I've just taken them on with a really pure energy. I'm not out to change people's minds. I'm out to maybe educate and inspire.

  Meredith Brooks

  Taken, People, Challenges

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• I think if you're doing alcohol and drugs, the chances of you surviving this kind of a pace are next to nothing. I live an extremely healthy life.

  Meredith Brooks

  Thinking, Alcohol, Drug

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• Everything I read about me is what I say. The way I've come across is exactly who I am. So far, they haven't skewed it to be one way or another too much.

  Meredith Brooks

  Who I Am, Too Much, Way

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• When I was a kid in Eugene, Oregon, there was this fantastic guitar player who went out on the tables, chairs, out in the audience and played. So I started taking my guitar in the audience. I tripped, fell backwards and ripped my pants.

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  Kids, Player, Guitar

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• A long term goal is to encourage students to start doing concerts in which I or the other artists will come back at the end of the school year to see their concerts.

  Meredith Brooks

  School, Artist, Years

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• I don't think science is totally true, because I've seen miracles happen through prayer.

  Meredith Brooks

  Prayer, Thinking, Miracle

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• I grabbed my drummer's cymbal in my teeth just as he crashed down on it with his sticks-I blacked out. I was a punk in those days. It was in Seattle. I still have all my teeth too, it's amazing.

  Meredith Brooks

  Teeth, Cymbals, Sticks

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• Growing up in the Northwest, I did play in an all-girl band. I snuck into clubs. No one ever questioned or thought twice about it.

  Meredith Brooks

  Girl, Growing Up, Play

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• I love Chrissie Hynde and Mick Jagger. Someone at Capitol pointed out how much my inflections are similar to Jagger's.

  Meredith Brooks

  Jagger, Capitol

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