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" When I was a kid, I listened to the Doors and the Eagles and bands like the Talking Heads, Tom Tom Club, and Blondie. "
Grace Potter
Kid
Talking
Club
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" 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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" I love 'New Girl.' I think it's so fun. "
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" 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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" Obvious is not my forte. I take a left turn right when everybody thinks I'm going to go straight. "
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" With my childhood and growing up in a very free place where my parents were artists and always encouraging me to explore, you wouldn't think I was locked up in my own mind, but I was. "
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" I'm legally blind in one eye, and one eye is a totally different size than the other, and I have, like, a weird crossed-eye thing. "
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" Donna Summer was such a genius. "
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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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" 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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" I was kind of a troublemaker, believe it or not. "
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" The misconception about the record company is that they were the ones who got me wearing short skirts, or got me to do my hair blond, or got me to dance around onstage and start doing different things with my clothes. No, that was actually all me. "
Grace Potter
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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. "
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Care
" 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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Team
Flying
Direction
" So much of myself is consumed with earning my way, doing it myself, and never feeling like things are being handed to you. Growing up that way was humbling. "
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Growing Up
You
Doing
" In a lot of ways, the Nocturnals are a safety net and a beautiful, beautiful blanket. All the life and music we've woven makes it so much more than a name on a marquee. But I realized the Nocturnals aren't me but a part of me... so it's natural to want to grow. "
Grace Potter
Beautiful
Life
Me
" The rainy season in Vermont is not long, but it definitely gets gloomy. "
Grace Potter
Rainy
Gloomy
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" I dance all the time. I'm almost constantly moving. "
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Dance
Constantly
Time
" 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
" 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
" 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
" You have to be a part of the conversation if you want to change the conversation. "
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Want
You
Change
" You shouldn't feel judged when you are dancing or singing at the top of your lungs or existing in a maximum-expression way. "
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" When we were recording 'This is Somewhere,' we were still super green, super from Vermont, super not knowing what to do. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" Being a rock and roll band is about spending time on the details so that you can hone your own identity. "
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" I love cooking... I'm quite domestic. "
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" 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. "
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