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Top 30 Michelle Shocked Quotes (2025 Update)

Michelle Shocked Quote: “Vengeance and revenge are just two words for pain.”

1. “Vengeance and revenge are just two words for pain.”

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Michelle Shocked Quote: “When I grow up I want to be an old woman.”

2. “When I grow up I want to be an old woman.”

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Michelle Shocked Quote: “I walked along that slippery slope where if you fail through lack of faith, you sell your soul to the devil.”

3. “I walked along that slippery slope where if you fail through lack of faith, you sell your soul to the devil.”

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Michelle Shocked Quote: “Punk is just as much a form of folk music as anything is!”

4. “Punk is just as much a form of folk music as anything is!”

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Michelle Shocked Quote: “Their lives ran in circles so small They thought they’d seen it all.”

5. “Their lives ran in circles so small They thought they’d seen it all.”

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Michelle Shocked Quote: “If I have something to apologize, I want to be the first one to step up and make that apology. I don’t want anyone to broker it for me. I don’t want anyone to take the hit for me. If I have anything to apologize for, I’m only human. I’m prone to making mistakes.”

6. “If I have something to apologize, I want to be the first one to step up and make that apology. I don’t want anyone to broker it for me. I don’t want anyone to take the hit for me. If I have anything to apologize for, I’m only human. I’m prone to making mistakes.”

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Michelle Shocked Quote: “I believe in the power of music. I believe in it absolutely. It’s never failed me. Never.”

7. “I believe in the power of music. I believe in it absolutely. It’s never failed me. Never.”

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Michelle Shocked Quote: “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.”

8. “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.”

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Michelle Shocked Quote: “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.”

9. “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.”

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Michelle Shocked Quote: “As I look back over my life, before I had any real identity, I was a traveler. I grew up an Army brat, a runaway, an activist, and a musician. All my life I’ve been traveling.”

10. “As I look back over my life, before I had any real identity, I was a traveler. I grew up an Army brat, a runaway, an activist, and a musician. All my life I’ve been traveling.”

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Michelle Shocked Quote: “At one time I was a nihilistic punk with a mohican and a ring in my nose. I think in the course of time I’ll find a middle ground, but I also carry that sense of responsibility. I’m in a position to defeat stereotypes.”

11. “At one time I was a nihilistic punk with a mohican and a ring in my nose. I think in the course of time I’ll find a middle ground, but I also carry that sense of responsibility. I’m in a position to defeat stereotypes.”

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Michelle Shocked Quote: “Prayer is so incredibly powerful. It keeps you in perfect peace.”

12. “Prayer is so incredibly powerful. It keeps you in perfect peace.”

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Michelle Shocked Quote: “I accepted a change in my life. I didn’t choose that change and those are the best changes to make.”

13. “I accepted a change in my life. I didn’t choose that change and those are the best changes to make.”

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Michelle Shocked Quote: “I regard myself as a true American musician, and I play every style that is my heritage.”

14. “I regard myself as a true American musician, and I play every style that is my heritage.”

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Michelle Shocked Quote: “I’ve been through some dark times but I’ve experienced joy too. Now that joy can’t be suppressed.”

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

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

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

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Michelle Shocked Quote: “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.”

17. “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.”

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Michelle Shocked Quote: “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.”

18. “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.”

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Michelle Shocked Quote: “Everyone thinks young people are alienated from the system. But when you present them with a viable alternative, they will be the first to take it. And then watch out.”

19. “Everyone thinks young people are alienated from the system. But when you present them with a viable alternative, they will be the first to take it. And then watch out.”

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Michelle Shocked Quote: “Writing and singing does give me some kind of release from the demons of my past, it is a therapy of sorts, but to be honest, my marriage played a more important role in the acceptance of myself than performance has ever done.”

20. “Writing and singing does give me some kind of release from the demons of my past, it is a therapy of sorts, but to be honest, my marriage played a more important role in the acceptance of myself than performance has ever done.”

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Michelle Shocked Quote: “Making music should not be left to the professionals.”

21. “Making music should not be left to the professionals.”

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Michelle Shocked Quote: “What kind of religion is it that would encourage the parent to shelter the child from any outside influences and punish it by putting it out in a world you never had any way of learning about?”

22. “What kind of religion is it that would encourage the parent to shelter the child from any outside influences and punish it by putting it out in a world you never had any way of learning about?”

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Michelle Shocked Quote: “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.”

23. “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.”

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Michelle Shocked Quote: “Music is not a commodity, it’s a resource.”

24. “Music is not a commodity, it’s a resource.”

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Michelle Shocked Quote: “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.”

25. “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.”

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Michelle Shocked Quote: “Make your own music. It can be done.”

26. “Make your own music. It can be done.”

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Michelle Shocked Quote: “I’m too shy, really to be able to hang out with my heroes for too long.”

27. “I’m too shy, really to be able to hang out with my heroes for too long.”

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Michelle Shocked Quote: “Mainstream media would convince you that there’s commercial culture and that’s all – but this other music is still here.”

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

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Michelle Shocked Quote: “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.”

29. “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.”

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Michelle Shocked Quote: “If I’m going to be held captive by social media, I’m going to use it against itself.”

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

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Michelle Shocked Quote: “I’m passionate about two things: Jesus and liberation.”

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

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Michelle Shocked Quote: “I think people have to choose between living with contradictions or painting themselves into a corner. I have a lot of contradictions.”

32. “I think people have to choose between living with contradictions or painting themselves into a corner. I have a lot of contradictions.”

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