Mary Gauthier Quotes

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Mary Gauthier

Profession : Musician

Birth : March 11, 1962

I don't know who my dad is.

Mary Gauthier

There's such a thing as a tribe - and family of choice.

Mary Gauthier

Soldiers are trained not to be vulnerable, but when they come home, they've got to learn it.

Mary Gauthier

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

Mary Gauthier

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.

Mary Gauthier

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.

Mary Gauthier

A lot of times, a bunch of songs have to be written to get to the next really good one.

Mary Gauthier

I teach songwriting a lot, and I always tell my students, 'You gotta write the little songs sometimes to get to the next big song in the chute.' You gotta write 'em to get to it. You never know what's going to be a little song or a big song.

Mary Gauthier

I think having near-death experiences, they sure made me free.

Mary Gauthier

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.

Mary Gauthier

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

Mary Gauthier

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

Mary Gauthier

Songs are here to help us: they build bridges from heart to heart.

Mary Gauthier

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.

Mary Gauthier

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

Mary Gauthier

I long for real and true connection. It has been the theme of all the songs in my whole life.

Mary Gauthier

Music and books, I think, were the two things I trusted the most as a child - songs and books.

Mary Gauthier

I think each veteran's soul has something that it needs to say. I know from my own personal traumas, it's very hard to know what that is. But when I'm watching someone else struggle, it's not as confusing for me, 'cause it's not my struggle, so I can help identify that.

Mary Gauthier

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

Mary Gauthier

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

Mary Gauthier