Mary Gauthier Quotes

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Mary Gauthier

Profession : Musician

Birth : March 11, 1962

'I Drink' took me two years to write.

Mary Gauthier

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.

Mary Gauthier

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.

Mary Gauthier

Art, when done well, creates empathy.

Mary Gauthier

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.

Mary Gauthier

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.

Mary Gauthier

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.

Mary Gauthier

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.

Mary Gauthier

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.

Mary Gauthier

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.

Mary Gauthier

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.

Mary Gauthier

It is a form of arrogance to assume that other people are even thinking about you.

Mary Gauthier

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.

Mary Gauthier

A lot of songwriters have written about soldiers and war, but very few have written with them.

Mary Gauthier

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.

Mary Gauthier

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.

Mary Gauthier

I did not know that the wounds of war are often invisible.

Mary Gauthier

We can't see ourselves very clearly. This I learned as a songwriter. I'm forever trying to figure out what my own truth is.

Mary Gauthier

People who have been through trauma, their souls are hurting.

Mary Gauthier

I love SongwritingWith:Soldiers.

Mary Gauthier