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" 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. "
Grace Potter
Own
Band
Care
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" I dance all the time. I'm almost constantly moving. "
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" Love yourself. Then find something to love beyond yourself. "
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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. "
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" 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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" 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. "
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Great
" 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. "
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Dress
Style
" 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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Rat
Music
" 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. "
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Identity
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" Ever since I was a little girl, I loved dressing up. "
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Dressing
Up
" 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
Women
Voice
Small
" Any time you write a song, you kind of know what you want from it. You know what you're getting from it. "
Grace Potter
You
Know
Kind
" Set lists are like movies. They need a great beginning, a dynamic shift in the middle, and bang at the end. "
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Movies
Beginning
End
" I know what it takes to gain a fan. "
Grace Potter
Fan
Takes
Know
" 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
Together
People
Music
" Every single song I write has to feel like it has a beginning, middle, and end, like a movie or a short story. "
Grace Potter
Story
End
Beginning
" 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. "
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Successful
Think
Out
" Donna Summer was such a genius. "
Grace Potter
Genius
Summer
" 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
" Follow your path unapologetically. Be compassionate. "
Grace Potter
Path
Your
Compassionate
" Food has always been a passion for me from a very young age. "
Grace Potter
Young
Always
Food
" I hear it all the time: 'What happened to the Grace Potter who didn't used to wear makeup?' "
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Time
Hear
Makeup
" 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
Eyes
Know
Love
" Music needs to move forward. "
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Needs
Forward
Move
" I was kind of a troublemaker, believe it or not. "
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Believe
Kind
Troublemaker
" Obvious is not my forte. I take a left turn right when everybody thinks I'm going to go straight. "
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Going
Go
Turn
" When I'm onstage, I have to have primer. Actually, the more primer, the less makeup I have to put on. "
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Makeup
Actually
Less
" I love a great pair of shoes, and as long as I feel like I can walk in them, I can dance in them. "
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Walk
Dance
Great
" I've been singing since I could talk. I started playing the piano when I was about 5 or 6. I picked up the guitar on my 20th birthday. "
Grace Potter
Talk
Birthday
Guitar