64 Quotes by Michelle Shocked

Ideals are not something I can control. It’s not logic that convinces me of something, it’s what my heart says. My heart has a way of involving me in things, which can only be good for the music.

I’ve been through some dark times but I’ve experienced joy too. Now that joy can’t be suppressed.

Music is not a commodity, it’s a resource.

I’m passionate about two things: Jesus and liberation.

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

If I’m going to be held captive by social media, I’m going to use it against itself.

I’m one of the few that comes from this vantage point: I never tried to get a record deal.

The thing I fail to do is fully comprehend what’s given back to me by the audience. You would think you would be a performer partly so you could feel all the appreciation or adulation, but I haven’t quite managed that yet.

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.