Quotes by Grace Potter - Page 2

Robert Plant, Kenny Chesney, Mavis Staples, Taj Mahal, this incredible array of folks, all taught me a way to carry yourself with dignity.
Grace Potter /
Dignity
Folks
Plant
Array
Me Yourself Way
Robert
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I really love what Chuck Berry did with Christmas music, and also the Rat Pack Christmas stuff, which I listened to all through my childhood.
Grace Potter /
Christmas
Childhood
Chuck
Rat Pack
Love Music Christmas
Berry
Listened
Pack
Rat
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It took a lot of years for me to get comfortable, strutting my stuff, dancing like a fool, having that sparkly dress on that says, 'Here I am.'
Grace Potter /
Fool
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I think that identity and sort of the brand - I hate that word - the brand of the musician should be malleable. It should change, and it should grow.
Grace Potter /
Malleable
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I'm very much a word-centric writer, and that comes from the literature and the reading that I did as kid and also the films and mythology and stories.
Grace Potter /
Mythology
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Spirituality is complicated. I do not belong to any particular religious group, but I have profound respect for people who devote their lives to faith.
Grace Potter /
Profound
Spirituality
Belong
Devote
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Voting is something that we all have a right to. It's not something that we have to do... it's absolutely an honor and a great opportunity to be heard.
Grace Potter /
Great Opportunity
Voting
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So much of myself is consumed with earning my way, doing it myself, and never feeling like things are being handed to you. Growing up that way was humbling.
Grace Potter /
Consumed
Earning
Humbling
Myself Way Doing
Handed
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My parents raised me on Spooky Tooth and The Band, Derek and the Dominoes, the Beatles, Bob Dylan, all that stuff. Rock n' roll was just in my subconscious.
Grace Potter /
Band
Dylan
Raised
Spooky
Subconscious
Bob Dylan
Parents
Rock
Tooth
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I've seen Coldplay live a couple of times, and you feel like you just got rained over with glorious, glowing love. That's a good feeling to leave people with.
Grace Potter /
Glorious
Good Feeling
Love Good People
Love Good Live
Coldplay
Rained
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I know it's strange, but I've always had a better time with other people's wild ideas. Coming up with my own is a deeply emotional and challenging thing to do.
Grace Potter /
Time Always Better
Time Better People
Better Time
Wild
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Being on a major label is like living at your friend's parent's mansion: It's a lot nicer than any apartment we could afford, and the fridge is always full of food.
Grace Potter /
Fridge
Label
Major Label
Nicer
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My mom was a piano teacher. It turned into something of a competition between me and her students... I liked the idea that I needed to be better than everybody else.
Grace Potter /
Everybody Else
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The limitations and parameters of a band is something I've always enjoyed: so many creative people coming together and raising the music to places we'd never get on our own.
Grace Potter /
Creative People
Parameters
Music Together People
Music Together Always
Limitations
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As long as you have balance, you can experience all of the things going on in the world and reach out and meet people and try new things, and you shouldn't be judged for it.
Grace Potter /
Balance
Judged
New Things
Experience World Long
Meet
Reach
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I worked extremely hard at my craft and at being a good songwriter, being a good guitar player, being a good organist, because I didn't think people would take me seriously.
Grace Potter /
Guitar Player
Good Guitar Me
Craft
Organist
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When I grew up and went to school, all the cool kids were in Carhartts and Mudd boots, and they were listening to the Grateful Dead and the Allman Brothers and driving Volkswagens.
Grace Potter /
Boots
Grateful Dead
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With my childhood and growing up in a very free place where my parents were artists and always encouraging me to explore, you wouldn't think I was locked up in my own mind, but I was.
Grace Potter /
Encouraging
Childhood
Locked
Locked Up
Always Mind Me
Artists
Explore
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I've gone from wearing jeans and cowboy boots to wearing miniskirts and gold tassels and high heels. I'm sure I'm not going to dress that way forever. It's going to change again and again.
Grace Potter /
Boots
Cowboy
Gold
Heels
High Heels
Jeans
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There are a lot of bands coming up now that are literally thrusting their soul, their passion into something that fans can pay for a ticket to go see, and they know it's going to be awe-inspiring.
Grace Potter /
Awe Inspiring
Ticket
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Think about what makes a band burn out. They get too successful too fast. And then they take it for granted. And they get entitled. And they get picky. We don't ever allow ourselves that possibility.
Grace Potter /
Entitled
Granted
Picky
Possibility
Burn
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Mick Jagger knows how to run a show. It's all about pacing. It's not a sprint, it's a marathon. His output is amazing, but his movements are subtle. As I get older, I'll have to adhere to these rules.
Grace Potter /
Amazing
Jagger
Marathon
Output
Pacing
Sprint
Subtle
Rules
Adhere
Older
Mick Jagger
Movements
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I've gotta long list of things to do, bucket list things - play 'Saturday Night Live,' make a movie. I want a lot of things, but one of my deepest wishes would be to headline - and sell out - Red Rocks.
Grace Potter /
Rocks
Saturday
Saturday Night
Saturday Night Live
Gotta
Headline
Long List
Wishes
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I'm not capable of wielding the guitar like Jimmy Page, one of my all-time favorite guitarists. My skill set is more based on the grinding, sort of human heartbeat - almost playing the guitar more like a drum.
Grace Potter /
All Time
Capable
Heartbeat
Jimmy
Drum
Grinding
Skill
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The longevity of a band is really contingent on loving the people that you're making music with and being able to get along in the long run. It's just like being married, except you're married to more than one person!
Grace Potter /
Longevity
Music Long People
Contingent
Long Run
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There's something to be said for being sleepy-eyed. I love sleepy eyes - that sort of vulnerability of being slightly discombobulated because you don't know where you are. But I like that vulnerability. It's sexy to me.
Grace Potter /
Sleepy
Vulnerability
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I was, like, a kooky kid, so people thought I was loud, but I really wasn't. I was kind of loud in outbursts. I was like a silent volcano. When I did have something to share, it was very over-the-top. But I've learned to balance that.
Grace Potter /
Loud
Outburst
Over The Top
Silent
Volcano
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There's nothing less sexy than a girl falling over on stage. I have fallen once, but it had nothing to do with my shoes. I'm legally blind, so I fell over a monitor because the stage was black, and I had no depth perception. Mortifying.
Grace Potter /
Blind
Depth
Fallen
Perception
Sexy
Falling
Legally
Monitor
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A lot of the themes that I write about are an affirmation of our existence on earth and making people feel like they are not alone, and making them feel like it is OK to be a little bit insane. That has always been sort of my credo in life.
Grace Potter /
Affirmation
Insane
Life Alone Always
Life Alone People
Themes
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We are definitely a team, from each band member to our management/booking agent. I like to be as involved as possible with business decisions, but at a certain point, it's important to me to step aside and let the professionals do their thing.
Grace Potter /
Agent
Business Me Step
Aside
Certain Point
Professionals
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The misconception about the record company is that they were the ones who got me wearing short skirts, or got me to do my hair blond, or got me to dance around onstage and start doing different things with my clothes. No, that was actually all me.
Grace Potter /
Different Things
Misconception
Skirts
Blond
Me Start Doing
Onstage
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I love making savory stratas for Christmas morning. I get excited about it. It's a polenta strata with homemade bread, with a billion eggs and Parmesan cheese. I'll drizzle truffle oil over the whole thing, which will just destroy people. It's amazing.
Grace Potter /
Christmas
Bread
Cheese
Eggs
Homemade
Billion
Destroy
Strata
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It's funny: when I was a kid, my mom would reorganize the record collection all the time. She'd have classical, she'd have Celtic, she'd have rock and roll, and then she'd have female singers. And I don't like it that female singers are their own genre.
Grace Potter /
Celtic
Rock And Roll
Singers
Funny Time Mom
Classical
Record Collection
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What I'm wearing changes everything about how the show goes. If I'm wearing blue jeans and flannel, it's going to be a country show, and I'm going to get my twang on. But if I'm wearing a flapper dress, fringe or sequins, I'm rocking out, Tina Turner style.
Grace Potter /
Blue
Blue Jeans
Fringe
Jeans
Turner
Flannel
Rocking
Tina
Tina Turner
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In a lot of ways, the Nocturnals are a safety net and a beautiful, beautiful blanket. All the life and music we've woven makes it so much more than a name on a marquee. But I realized the Nocturnals aren't me but a part of me... so it's natural to want to grow.
Grace Potter /
Blanket
Marquee
Safety
Safety Net
Woven
Life Music Beautiful
Net
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When people see a talented girl, it calls to mind the very rare breed of women who have managed to succeed. If I were a dude with the exact same voice, band and songs, I doubt they'd compare me to Sheryl Crow. But hey, I'm not complaining. Big fish, small pond.
Grace Potter /
Big Fish
Compare
Complaining
Crow
Hey
Breed
Rare
Calls
Talented
Dude
Exact
Pond
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What I was drawn to the most about the Flying V was the weight distribution with the way I move on stage. The V just swings perfectly. It's a great way to stay balanced, because I like to dance, and I'm a bit of a flail-er. The guitar centers me, and for me, it's a really good balance.
Grace Potter /
Balanced
Distribution
Flying
Swings
Centers
Drawn
Great Way
Move On
Perfectly
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Trends suck you in, anywhere in the world, patterns you don't even see. It's so easy. Look at Wall Street - look at any sports team in the world - there are trends. Look at exercising. Nothing but patterns and trends, and that's what I started to see. Like a flock of birds all flying in one direction.
Grace Potter /
Flying
Patterns
Exercising
Flock
Wall Street
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I see musicians like Bonnie Raitt and Emmylou Harris as more than just musical icons: they are planets, with a gravitational pull - from how they flip their hair just-so when they bow, right down to their hearty backstage banter. It takes decades to learn the innuendos of being gracious and genuine all at once.
Grace Potter /
Decades
Flip
Genuine
Gracious
Hearty
Icons
Planets
Backstage
Bow
Harris
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I'm from Vermont, where to be stylish and cool is to have a dirty pair of hiking boots and know how to change a tire, hang drywall, and bale hay. Those people are my home, and every time I come home, it reminds me that there's something to be said for being in the spotlight, but it can never be a whole part of me.
Grace Potter /
Boots
Dirty
Hay
Hiking
Spotlight
Stylish
Tire
Vermont
Every Time
Hang
Pair
Reminds
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