Mary Gauthier Quotes

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Mary Gauthier

Profession : Musician

Birth : March 11, 1962

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.

Mary Gauthier

Music had always been a kind of anchor for me. But I didn't write my first song till I was 35.

Mary Gauthier

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.

Mary Gauthier

I've got lots of problems. Being gay isn't one of them.

Mary Gauthier

I would make a terrible soldier, because I don't follow orders.

Mary Gauthier

I'm sort of stuck in adolescence in many ways, like most artists, and march to my own beat.

Mary Gauthier

I think music is the highest form of healing.

Mary Gauthier

It can take me many months to write one of my own songs.

Mary Gauthier

I got sober at 27 and started writing around 30 and started playing music in public around 32, 33.

Mary Gauthier

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.

Mary Gauthier

The job of the artist is to go to the places where most other people are embarrassed to go to. And show it.

Mary Gauthier

I'm a traveler and a vagabond and an observer, and the songs come through that. And that's just the way it's going to be.

Mary Gauthier

I think I'll always draw from being a person that doesn't know how to have a normal life, whatever a normal life is.

Mary Gauthier

I try not to eat cakes, but sugar screams my name.

Mary Gauthier

What matters is what happens in the soul of an artist when you're playing.

Mary Gauthier

If I write for beauty and truth, the songs will find their way to me. Then, it's the songs that speak to the audience, and they can become part of the tribe that is into what I do.

Mary Gauthier

When I first got sober, I hadn't read anything for six or seven years. I didn't have even that much focus.

Mary Gauthier

I feel as though I came to music with something to say. It wasn't like that when I was younger. I didn't have the ability to articulate what it was I wanted to say.

Mary Gauthier

I always knew I was going to make a record called 'The Foundling.' Since I picked up a guitar, I knew it.

Mary Gauthier

I have got my story. Adoptees rarely get our stories. We only know what we are told. I don't even have my story, really. My mother won't tell me. She won't tell me who my father is. She won't tell me the story of my birth.

Mary Gauthier