- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
In a lot of ways, songwriting helped save my life.
- Purpose
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- Nov 07, 2020
Recovery stabilized me; songwriting gave me a purpose.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Misunderstanding
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's an ocean of misunderstanding. It's called the civilian-military divide. I had a lot to learn about our military - who they are, what burdens they carry.
- Guitar
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm an old-fashioned folk singer. I stand in front of an audience with a guitar and a barstool.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I've found at 48 years old is that there's nothing about me that's unique.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a universal inside of me. So if I tell my story, you're going to see parts of your story in it. I don't know which parts, but we all overlap. We're all very much alike.
- Complicated
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Name
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm from New Orleans, and I have a French last name - although I have no real relationship with my last name because it's not my name. I don't know my name.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know who my dad is.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's such a thing as a tribe - and family of choice.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
Soldiers are trained not to be vulnerable, but when they come home, they've got to learn it.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't have the experience of being in a war.
- Nov 07, 2020
I don't ever want to tie a song in a little bow. Life doesn't work that way, and war doesn't ever work that way.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't play everything I write. I mean, everything I write is not that good. I bring out into the world the ones I think that are really worthy of an audience's attention.
- Next
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of times, a bunch of songs have to be written to get to the next really good one.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think having near-death experiences, they sure made me free.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have such a good life. It's something I couldn't have imagined in my wildest dreams.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was in the orphanage in New Orleans until I was almost a year old. I don't think I ever got held by my mama, so that was completely and utterly traumatic. I think it was trauma from the first breath, and I think I've spent my whole life trying to heal from that trauma. So it shaped my brain.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
I long for real and true connection. It has been the theme of all the songs in my whole life.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Music and books, I think, were the two things I trusted the most as a child - songs and books.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've learned our soldiers are so much like everybody else. They're just put into an extreme situation.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
'I Drink' took me two years to write.
- Hell
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- Nov 07, 2020
War is hell. Sending young people to conflicts that are unwinnable and unresolvable - it puts them in a position where they're going to suffer. And yet their experience is that they're proud of their service, and they should be. Service freely rendered is a noble thing.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think if people really listened to what our families who serve go through, we could have a realistic discussion of what it means to send young people to war.
- Done
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- Nov 07, 2020
Art, when done well, creates empathy.
- Pain
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Big
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Fight
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Confusion
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a songwriter, I was always mining my own depths, which were filled with confusion and darkness.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
I spent my 18th birthday in jail. Charges were dropped as long as I promised never to return to the state of Kansas. My parents took me home to Louisiana. I lasted there a week. Then I ran away.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I got interviewed by one writer who started with the line, 'Mary Gauthier is a woman who clearly doesn't care how she looks.' I do too. It's just that I'm not very good at it.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I was told is that I was born to a mother who was a Catholic, while her boyfriend was not. They couldn't get married unless they put me up for adoption.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is a form of arrogance to assume that other people are even thinking about you.
- Giving
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- Nov 07, 2020
I keep seeing the headline on articles that says something like 'Mary Gauthier Helping Our Veterans.' It's troubling - and it's condescending. Whatever I'm doing as a songwriter to help them tell their stories, they're giving it back to me double, triple, quadruple.
- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of songwriters have written about soldiers and war, but very few have written with them.
- Loneliness
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- Nov 07, 2020
Songs bring us into connection with each other. When they resonate, when we're in resonance, singing together, we become one for that 3 1/2 or four minutes the song lasts. It takes away that isolated loneliness that modern life is so full of.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did not know that if a member of a family serves, the whole family serves. I did not know that the spouses of our service members carry such a heavy load.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did not know that the wounds of war are often invisible.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love SongwritingWith:Soldiers.
- Happen
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm openly gay, and I've got a major label record deal in Nashville, and it happened when I was 42 years old. It's not supposed to happen that way.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Music had always been a kind of anchor for me. But I didn't write my first song till I was 35.
- Loneliness
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my early years, I couldn't find a community. I couldn't find anybody like me. I felt so isolated. There was nothing but shame and loneliness.
- Gay
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've got lots of problems. Being gay isn't one of them.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm sort of stuck in adolescence in many ways, like most artists, and march to my own beat.
- I Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think music is the highest form of healing.
- My Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
It can take me many months to write one of my own songs.
- Playing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I got sober at 27 and started writing around 30 and started playing music in public around 32, 33.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I came to music and knowing a little bit about life, and I came to music knowing a lot about business - and that's a real advantage. By the time I came to music, I had purchased real estate, opened restaurants, and been in the business world, so the music business didn't blindside me.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The belief when your mother gives you away is that there's something deeply wrong. Mothers don't give babies away. There's something wrong with me, something unlovable, something seriously flawed in me. It's a fundamental thing; it's precognitive. You feel it rather than think it. How could you not?
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020