Latest Valerie June Quotes from Interviews

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• I have a lot of different collections of cards at home. It's hard to say my favorite deck, but there is a deck called the medicine cards, and it's Native American animal cards.

  Valerie June

  Home, Native American, Animal

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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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• 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 just have to do prayers and meditation and affirmations to myself as I go throughout the day, and that's the only way I'm able to make it through some days.

  Valerie June

  Prayer, Meditation, Able

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• I'm not religious, but I am spiritual and I am creating my own practice.

  Valerie June

  Spiritual, Religious, Practice

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• I create my own reality. And I'm not the only one. My reality is becoming more prominent.

  Valerie June

  Reality, Becoming, My Own

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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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• 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

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

• I can't believe the ignorance there, so I don't allow it to affect my life, I don't allow it to come into my zone, and it's not in my world, really.

  Valerie June

  Believe, Ignorance, World

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• Even though I like looking good - don't get me wrong - but if I don't want to, I don't have to.

  Valerie June

  Want, Looking Good, Ifs

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• I've always kind of been in the middle of every room, trying to get people together, no matter what color they were.

  Valerie June

  Color, People, Trying

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• As a woman especially I've found a lot of freedom in music.

  Valerie June

  Found

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• They're all personal and self-created challenges that I think I've overcome within myself. Being confident enough to get on stage and play, things like that.

  Valerie June

  Thinking, Self, Play

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• I'm grateful that music has been a place where I've found freedom.

  Valerie June

  Grateful, Found, Has Beens

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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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• My challenges have not been around music. My hardest thing in music was just sitting down and teaching myself how to play and believing in myself.

  Valerie June

  Believe, Teaching, Play

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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

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

• 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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• 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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• When I think about singing, and music, I think about how the people who live on the East Tennessee side have more of a curve or yodel to their voices, and then you think about the curve of mountains.

  Valerie June

  Thinking, Curves, Voice

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

• I love to read things that have moral messages, and I love to hear stories where it's not just a hook, you have to follow the story, you have to listen to the message of the song, and get it and use it in your everyday life.

  Valerie June

  Song, Everyday, Use

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

• 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

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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

  Valerie June

  Art, Memphis, Enough

  Source: www.guernicamag.com