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. ↗

— Michelle Shocked

#convinces #good #heart #i #i can

Make your own music. It can be done. ↗

— Michelle Shocked

#make #music #own #your

Music is not a commodity, it's a resource. ↗

— Michelle Shocked

#music #resource

Music is too important to be left to professionals. ↗

— Michelle Shocked

#left #music #professionals #too

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

#dance #dancing #fools #grandmother #had

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. ↗

— Michelle Shocked

#bunch #call #first #i #identified

I'm too shy, really to be able to hang out with my heroes for too long. ↗

— Michelle Shocked

#hang #heroes #i #long #out