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" As a ski bum and someone who came up in a ski bum family, I understand the essence of what Colorado is all about. "
Grace Potter
Someone
Family
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" My dad turned me onto Led Zeppelin, the Stones, and the Who, but Madonna and pop music came from my mom. "
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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. "
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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. "
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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. "
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" Dr. Dog is good summer music. "
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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. "
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Reading
" Music really does make you feel better. "
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Music
Better
" There's definitely no subtlety in what I do. When you want to get your face melted, you come to a Grace Potter and the Nocturnals concert. "
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Face
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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. "
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Good
Craft
Me
" 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. "
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Morning
Love
Bread
" 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. "
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Spooky
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Parents
" 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. "
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Mom
Funny
Rock And Roll
" 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
Right
Voting
Great
" 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. "
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Childhood
Rat
Music
" 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. "
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Girl
Sexy
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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
Human
Guitar
Heartbeat
" 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
People
Faith
Respect
" Tearing down an old house and building a new one is the most wasteful thing we do as humans. "
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Building
House
Most
" I was always sort of mystified and excited about the world of country music. Something about it struck me as enchanted. "
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World
Country
Always
" 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! "
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People
Loving
Long
" I usually start with a lyric or a melody and then build a song around that. "
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Song
Then
" In my mind, an album shouldn't be self-titled unless it feels that way. "
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Unless
Feels
" It's easy for me to write songs but hard for me to write an album; that's been my experience. "
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Songs
Write
Hard
" I don't have any kids of my own, but I love my band, and I love the people I'm around and taking care of them. "
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Band
Care
" 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.' "
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Like
Me
Fool
" 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. "
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Home
People
" For all the flack that we get for becoming successful, you get people who really respect how firmly planted our feet have been in Vermont. "
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People
You
Successful
" 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. "
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Food
Always
Friend
" I dance all the time. I'm almost constantly moving. "
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Constantly
Time