Top 69 Quotes & Sayings by Valerie June - Page 2

If you're going to be stuck somewhere forever, you might as well be around good people!

If you want to get broken in good, put four girls on the road together in a van and tour up and down the country.

When I talk about music in Memphis, it's a place you can go if you are a beginning artist or anywhere in your career, and you can incubate.

There are a lot of murder ballads out there, but most of them are about killing the woman. I was like, "We've gotta turn this around!"

Even the sad roots songs have a lot of good stories to them, and the murder ballads are good too. I mean, who doesn't like to watch a nice gory murder film on TV?

Memphis held onto me until I was far enough along in my art and then it let me go.

There are so many different versions of "Tennessee Waltz" and they're all so good.

I feel a lot of cities are like, you go and you are trying to do your art, and there are so many other artists there who are so brilliant. And it's kind of like they stomp on the scene, and they are like, "You're not already Picasso? Get the hell out of here!" And Memphis is like, "Well, you'll get there one day!"

I think it's funny how people get confused when they think about church music, because a lot of times there is a soloist who stands out, but my church wasn't like that at all.