64 Quotes by Michelle Shocked

When I grow up I want to be an old woman.

There is no one like him alive today. He was a vast treasure trove and storehouse of musical and cultural knowledge and the richness that he has brought into all of our lives is immeasurable. He was a generous spirit, overlooking faults in order to see the common humanity that we all share and this is the quality that I will miss the most. For a man who has seen some of the most repulsive and ugly aspects of human nature to transform that knowledge into the beauty and grace that he does is an uplift and hope for citizens of the world.

I think the word soul has gotta come into it. Music that's created just for consuming lacks that soul, that swing, that feeling.

Yeah, I am a hick. I am naive, and I am sincere and it's wonderfully unfashionable.

The secret of a long life is knowing when it's time to go.

Some women can be sweet because they don't know how else to move through the world. I'm sweet because I can afford to be.

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

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.

Mainstream media would convince you that there's commercial culture and that's all - but this other music is still here.