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What I was told is that I was born to a mother who was a Catholic, while her boyfriend was not. They couldn't get married unless they put me up for adoption.
Mary Gauthier / Singer-Songwriter
Boyfriend
Adoption
Catholic
Mother Me Born
Me Born Mother
Get Married
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I think, because of the kind of writer I am, I can't do it halfway. I can't do it without dedicating my entire life to it. I have to give it a hundred percent.
Mary Gauthier / Singer-Songwriter
Halfway
Dedicating
Entire Life
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I think if people really listened to what our families who serve go through, we could have a realistic discussion of what it means to send young people to war.
Mary Gauthier / Singer-Songwriter
Discussion
Realistic
Listened
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There's an ocean of misunderstanding. It's called the civilian-military divide. I had a lot to learn about our military - who they are, what burdens they carry.
Mary Gauthier / Singer-Songwriter
Ocean
Military
Misunderstanding
Burdens
Carry
Divide
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I feel as though I came to music with something to say. It wasn't like that when I was younger. I didn't have the ability to articulate what it was I wanted to say.
Mary Gauthier / Singer-Songwriter
Articulate
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When I became a songwriter, it was out of some sort of desperation. I needed to create something. I had to latch on to something, and the guitar was what I grabbed.
Mary Gauthier / Singer-Songwriter
Desperation
Grabbed
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There's a lot of vulnerability in songs - I'm not talking about pop songs - from people that are in the art of songwriting more than the commercial enterprise of it.
Mary Gauthier / Singer-Songwriter
Enterprise
Not Talking
Songwriting
Vulnerability
Art People More
Pop Songs
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That's the reality in the Catholic Church today You don't want to build something that will be OK for now, when you know this large population is going to get bigger.
Mary Gauthier / Singer-Songwriter
Catholic
Church Today
Reality
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I don't play everything I write. I mean, everything I write is not that good. I bring out into the world the ones I think that are really worthy of an audience's attention.
Mary Gauthier / Singer-Songwriter
Worthy
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I got interviewed by one writer who started with the line, 'Mary Gauthier is a woman who clearly doesn't care how she looks.' I do too. It's just that I'm not very good at it.
Mary Gauthier / Singer-Songwriter
Mary
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There's a universal inside of me. So if I tell my story, you're going to see parts of your story in it. I don't know which parts, but we all overlap. We're all very much alike.
Mary Gauthier / Singer-Songwriter
Inside
Alike
Your Me See
Me Your See
Overlap
Parts
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Melody's like tweezers that go into the infection and pull out the wounded part. You can almost not stay silent in the face of a melody that matches your emotion. You feel seen.
Mary Gauthier / Singer-Songwriter
Infection
Melody
Silent
Wounded
Matches
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If I write for beauty and truth, the songs will find their way to me. Then, it's the songs that speak to the audience, and they can become part of the tribe that is into what I do.
Mary Gauthier / Singer-Songwriter
Beauty Truth Me
Tribe
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If somebody in a family is in service, the whole family is in service. I didn't know that. I didn't know our veterans were being deployed seven, eight, nine, 10 times. It's inhumane.
Mary Gauthier / Singer-Songwriter
Eight
Inhumane
Nine
Deployed
Service
Veterans
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People in Ireland take in the whole song. After a long history of great singers and songwriters and poets, they are able to consume the entire song - not just the external; they go inside.
Mary Gauthier / Singer-Songwriter
Ireland
Singers
Songwriters
External
Consume
Long History
Poets
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My experiences are universal. I'm not doing anything embarrassing - to me what would be embarrassing is to talk about minutia. It would be embarrassing to get up there and not say anything.
Mary Gauthier / Singer-Songwriter
Embarrassing
Say Anything
Would Be
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I write to make some sense of things that confuse me. The mechanics of my own heart are the most confusing I know about - and don't know about - and other people's are a bit confusing, too.
Mary Gauthier / Singer-Songwriter
Heart Me People
Confuse
Mechanics
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I spent my 18th birthday in jail. Charges were dropped as long as I promised never to return to the state of Kansas. My parents took me home to Louisiana. I lasted there a week. Then I ran away.
Mary Gauthier / Singer-Songwriter
Birthday
Jail
Louisiana
Ran
Return
Home Me Long
Charges
Dropped
Lasted
Promised
Spent
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I felt my whole life like I didn't have a family, and I needed one. So I had to build one, and you build one with faith, hope, and the healing power of love - or you end up the 'Unabomber.' That's the choice.
Mary Gauthier / Singer-Songwriter
Healing
Life Love Family
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Being in recovery for a lot of years now, I've worked with a lot of people who've gotten sober and sat with a lot of folks who are suffering. Bearing witness is a really underrated thing; it's a big damn deal.
Mary Gauthier / Singer-Songwriter
Damn
Recovery
Sober
Witness
Bearing
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What I'm finding is there's an awful lot about adoption and relinquishment and the complicated nature of family that we, as human beings, haven't been able to have a real discussion about yet without a lot of censorship.
Mary Gauthier / Singer-Songwriter
Adoption
Censorship
Discussion
Awful Lot
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I have got my story. Adoptees rarely get our stories. We only know what we are told. I don't even have my story, really. My mother won't tell me. She won't tell me who my father is. She won't tell me the story of my birth.
Mary Gauthier / Singer-Songwriter
Birth
Mother Me Father
Rarely
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By the time I got to songwriting, I had been faced with a lot of troubles as a result of my own collective of trauma. I was someone who instinctively figured out that writing songs about the struggle helps you with the struggle.
Mary Gauthier / Singer-Songwriter
Songwriting
By The Time
Collective
Figured
Instinctively
Troubles
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I think Bob Dylan showed us that songs can rise to the level of literature, and he proved it over and over again. That's why they keep trying to get him a Nobel Prize for literature: because there is no Nobel Prize for songwriting.
Mary Gauthier / Singer-Songwriter
Bob
Dylan
Literature
Nobel
Nobel Prize
Prize
Songwriting
Rise
Bob Dylan
Proved
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I teach songwriting a lot, and I always tell my students, 'You gotta write the little songs sometimes to get to the next big song in the chute.' You gotta write 'em to get to it. You never know what's going to be a little song or a big song.
Mary Gauthier / Singer-Songwriter
Song
Students
Teach
Gotta
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Songs bring us into connection with each other. When they resonate, when we're in resonance, singing together, we become one for that 3 1/2 or four minutes the song lasts. It takes away that isolated loneliness that modern life is so full of.
Mary Gauthier / Singer-Songwriter
Isolated
Lasts
Loneliness
Minutes
Modern Life
Resonance
Singing
Connection
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The process of grief has a beginning a middle and an end. The hard part is holding on in the middle. You can hold on. There's transformation happening in these times bringing you to a new place. It's a place you can only get to through the pain.
Mary Gauthier / Singer-Songwriter
Grief
Pain
Transformation
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I'm a big fan of Lou Reed, and I do a lot of talking through songs. It's more effective with my vocal limitations and also more powerful to slightly sing sometimes. It depends on the emotion, but I'm never going to try to compete with great singers.
Mary Gauthier / Singer-Songwriter
Singers
Vocal
Reed
Big Fan
Compete
Effective
Limitations
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They send women into combat without being prepared for women in combat. The men resented them being there, and it was just very, very difficult for them, and they had to fight for the respect they were earning. And that's all they want is the respect.
Mary Gauthier / Singer-Songwriter
Combat
Earning
Men Women Respect
Being Prepared
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Getting a gay fan base is slow. I think if I were able to reach more gay people they would love it. I can't get the songs in their ears. I love my gay family. I just wish I could reach more of them. I'm in this car going from club to club but they're not gay clubs.
Mary Gauthier / Singer-Songwriter
Gay
Song
Thinking
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I keep seeing the headline on articles that says something like 'Mary Gauthier Helping Our Veterans.' It's troubling - and it's condescending. Whatever I'm doing as a songwriter to help them tell their stories, they're giving it back to me double, triple, quadruple.
Mary Gauthier / Singer-Songwriter
Articles
Condescending
Mary
Me Keep Doing
Double
Headline
Triple
Troubling
Veterans
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I think each veteran's soul has something that it needs to say. I know from my own personal traumas, it's very hard to know what that is. But when I'm watching someone else struggle, it's not as confusing for me, 'cause it's not my struggle, so I can help identify that.
Mary Gauthier / Singer-Songwriter
Confusing
Veteran
Identify
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War is hell. Sending young people to conflicts that are unwinnable and unresolvable - it puts them in a position where they're going to suffer. And yet their experience is that they're proud of their service, and they should be. Service freely rendered is a noble thing.
Mary Gauthier / Singer-Songwriter
Noble
Conflicts
Freely
Puts
Rendered
Sending
Suffer
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Wonderful songwriting, beautiful production, and deeply rooted in what makes American Roots Music great: Deep Southern Pain. It's the hurt that brings the songs, and it's the songs that heal the hurt. Jonathan's songs bring us there, and back. Check this record out, it's a good 'un.
Mary Gauthier / Singer-Songwriter
Beautiful
Hurt
Song
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I came to music and knowing a little bit about life, and I came to music knowing a lot about business - and that's a real advantage. By the time I came to music, I had purchased real estate, opened restaurants, and been in the business world, so the music business didn't blindside me.
Mary Gauthier / Singer-Songwriter
Business World
Music Business
Restaurants
Life Time Business
By The Time
Estate
Opened
Purchased
Real Estate
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I was in the orphanage in New Orleans until I was almost a year old. I don't think I ever got held by my mama, so that was completely and utterly traumatic. I think it was trauma from the first breath, and I think I've spent my whole life trying to heal from that trauma. So it shaped my brain.
Mary Gauthier / Singer-Songwriter
Heal
Mama
New Orleans
Held
Shaped
Orleans
Traumatic
Utterly
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The belief when your mother gives you away is that there's something deeply wrong. Mothers don't give babies away. There's something wrong with me, something unlovable, something seriously flawed in me. It's a fundamental thing; it's precognitive. You feel it rather than think it. How could you not?
Mary Gauthier / Singer-Songwriter
Flawed
Unlovable
Mother Your Me
Babies
Me Feel Your
Mothers
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I knew I had that Cajun heritage, that Acadian heritage; I just feel it. And my gut says Irish on the other side. Irish and French, that's what I feel. When you're young, it doesn't matter so much, but as you get older, I would suspect part of the ageing process is to wonder about your ancestors - who were they? What were their lives like?
Mary Gauthier / Singer-Songwriter
Ageing
Heritage
Ancestors
Gut
Suspect
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