Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" 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. "

Related Quotes:

" 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

Some

Create

Desperation

" 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. "

" I have such a good life. It's something I couldn't have imagined in my wildest dreams. "

" 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

Silent

Feel

" What I really like is this salted calamari - with jalapenos on top. "

Mary Gauthier

Top

Really

" It can take me many months to write one of my own songs. "

" I think music is the highest form of healing. "

" 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. "

" I love SongwritingWith:Soldiers. "

Mary Gauthier

Love

I Love

" I don't know who my dad is. "

" 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. "

" I would make a terrible soldier, because I don't follow orders. "

Mary Gauthier

Because

Terrible

" Songs, especially lyrics, have always been really important to me. "

" Fundamentally, our job as songwriters is to sit down and listen. "

" I'm sort of stuck in adolescence in many ways, like most artists, and march to my own beat. "

" 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

Art

People

" 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

Heart

Know

" 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. "

" I haven't been in the military, but I've known my share of pain. It allows me to sit with someone who's struggling and not be afraid. "

Mary Gauthier

Afraid

Someone

" I think it's a stereotype that soldiers don't talk, because my experience is that they will talk if they are met with empathy and no judgment. "

" I've learned our soldiers are so much like everybody else. They're just put into an extreme situation. "

Mary Gauthier

Just

Much

" I don't have the experience of being in a war. "

" 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. "

" A lot of songwriters have written about soldiers and war, but very few have written with them. "

" A lot of time, if you spend too much time in Nashville, songwriters get caught up in charts and numbers and the music business politics. "

Mary Gauthier

You

Time

" Art, when done well, creates empathy. "

" Recovery stabilized me; songwriting gave me a purpose. "

Mary Gauthier

Songwriting

Purpose

" The world doesn't need any more pretty good songs. "

Mary Gauthier

Good

Need

" When I first got sober, I hadn't read anything for six or seven years. I didn't have even that much focus. "

" I think I'll always draw from being a person that doesn't know how to have a normal life, whatever a normal life is. "