Punk is just as much a form of folk music as anything is! Michelle Shocked More Quotes by Michelle Shocked More Quotes From Michelle Shocked Making music should not be left to the professionals. Michelle Shocked left music should When I grow up I want to be an old woman. Michelle Shocked growing-up grows want Music is too important to be left to professionals. Michelle Shocked left music-is important Prayer is so incredibly powerful. It keeps you in perfect peace. Michelle Shocked powerful prayer perfect 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. Michelle Shocked inspirational funny mean I accepted a change in my life. I didn't choose that change and those are the best changes to make. Michelle Shocked changing-my-life accepted life-changing 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. Michelle Shocked grandmother kids school If I'm going to be held captive by social media, I'm going to use it against itself. Michelle Shocked media social use The secret to a long life is knowin' when it's time to go. Michelle Shocked long-life secret long I resent like hell that I was maybe eighteen before I ever heard the 'L' word. It would have made all the difference for me had I grown up knowing that the reason I didn't fit in was because they hadn't told me there were more categories to fit into. Michelle Shocked fit differences knowing Make your own music. It can be done. Michelle Shocked done I'm passionate about two things: Jesus and liberation. Michelle Shocked passionate two jesus I think people have to choose between living with contradictions or painting themselves into a corner. I have a lot of contradictions. Michelle Shocked painting people thinking I've been through some dark times but I've experienced joy too. Now that joy can't be suppressed. Michelle Shocked dark-times dark joy I'm one of the few that comes from this vantage point: I never tried to get a record deal. Michelle Shocked deals vantage-point records I believe in the power of music. I believe in it absolutely. It's never failed me. Never. Michelle Shocked power-of-music i-believe believe Music is not a commodity, it's a resource. Michelle Shocked commodity resources music-is Vengeance and revenge are just two words for pain. Michelle Shocked pain revenge two The love that I pray every day is manifest through me. Not because I'm a loving person, but because the God that I serve loves everybody. Michelle Shocked loving-person manifest praying Their lives ran in circles so small They thought they'd seen it all Michelle Shocked ran philosophical circles
