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" Love yourself. Then find something to love beyond yourself. "
Grace Potter
Love
Find
Yourself
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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. "
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" I love 'New Girl.' I think it's so fun. "
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" 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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" I hear it all the time: 'What happened to the Grace Potter who didn't used to wear makeup?' "
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" I was a general contractor when I was paying for my first record. "
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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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" As a ski bum and someone who came up in a ski bum family, I understand the essence of what Colorado is all about. "
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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. "
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Direction
" 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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" 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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Me
Home
People
" I always think it's a little bit of a challenge when people sort of associate female artists as their own genre. "
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Challenge
Always
Own
" As a kid, I was not a tomboy; I was a total girl wearing tutus and red shoes. "
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Wearing
Girl
Tomboy
" 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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Loving
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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. "
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Eyes
Know
Love
" You have to be a part of the conversation if you want to change the conversation. "
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Want
You
Change
" I'm a very loud and outspoken creature. "
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Outspoken
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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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Music
Mom
" 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. "
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Saturday
Long
Red
" 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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Beginning
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" Any time you write a song, you kind of know what you want from it. You know what you're getting from it. "
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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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" Every single song I write has to feel like it has a beginning, middle, and end, like a movie or a short story. "
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Beginning
" Music needs to move forward. "
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" I always loved the piano because it's just a bunch of buttons. I like to push buttons. "
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" Food has always been a passion for me from a very young age. "
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" Obvious is not my forte. I take a left turn right when everybody thinks I'm going to go straight. "
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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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