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Mary Gauthier
American
Musician
Born:
Mar 11
,
1962
Got
Life
Me
People
Think
You
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People who have been through trauma, their souls are hurting.
Mary Gauthier
People
Hurting
Through
Souls
Been
Who
Trauma
When you see validation for a life's work and dedication, it's a beautiful day.
Mary Gauthier
Life
Work
Beautiful
Day
You
Dedication
Validation
See
Beautiful Day
There's such a thing as a tribe - and family of choice.
Mary Gauthier
Family
Tribe
Choice
Such A Thing
Thing
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
Life
Loneliness
Together
Song
Resonate
Singing
Become
Other
Resonance
Lasts
Minutes
Songs
Takes
Isolated
Modern
Modern Life
Us
Full
Connection
Each
Away
Four
Bring
If I start tracing, I bet I will find a writer in my family tree.
Mary Gauthier
Family
Will
Tree
Find
Bet
Writer
Tracing
Start
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.
Mary Gauthier
Ocean
Military
Our
Carry
About
Divide
Had
Learn
Misunderstanding
Lot
Burdens
Who
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.
Mary Gauthier
Family
Nature
Complicated
Censorship
Finding
Able
About
Adoption
Without
Real
Been
Lot
Discussion
Human
Human Beings
Beings
Awful
Awful Lot
Art, when done well, creates empathy.
Mary Gauthier
Art
Empathy
Well
Done
Creates
Recovery stabilized me; songwriting gave me a purpose.
Mary Gauthier
Me
Gave
Purpose
Recovery
Songwriting
Stabilized
What I've found at 48 years old is that there's nothing about me that's unique.
Mary Gauthier
Me
Old
Nothing
About
Years
Unique
Found
I don't have the experience of being in a war.
Mary Gauthier
War
Experience
Being
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
Life
Work
War
Song
Way
Bow
Tie
Want
Little
Ever
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
Good
World
Think
Everything
Out
Worthy
Write
Attention
Audience
Mean
Really
Play
Bring
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
You
Song
Sometimes
Big
Tell
Write
Never
Students
Songs
Songwriting
Know
Always
Gotta
Lot
Get
Going
Little
Next
Teach
I think having near-death experiences, they sure made me free.
Mary Gauthier
Me
Made
Free
Think
Having
Sure
Experiences
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
Life
Love
Hope
Faith
Family
You
Healing
Power
Build
Had
Like
Felt
End
Up
Choice
Whole
Needed
I long for real and true connection. It has been the theme of all the songs in my whole life.
Mary Gauthier
Life
Long
Has-Been
Songs
True
Real
Been
Theme
Connection
Whole
I've learned our soldiers are so much like everybody else. They're just put into an extreme situation.
Mary Gauthier
Situation
Everybody
Everybody Else
Else
Our
Extreme
Soldiers
Put
Like
Learned
Just
Much
Fundamentally, our job as songwriters is to sit down and listen.
Mary Gauthier
Job
Sit
Down
Our
Songwriters
Listen
Fundamentally
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
War
People
Young
Realistic
Think
Our
Could
Through
Go
Families
Discussion
Send
Listened
Young People
Really
Means
Who
Serve
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
Service
Family
Veterans
Somebody
Nine
Our
Seven
Know
Were
Times
Being
Eight
Deployed
Inhumane
Whole
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
Respect
Fight
Women
Men
Difficult
Earning
Had
Combat
Without
Were
Very
Send
Just
Being
Want
Them
Being Prepared
Being There
Prepared
As a songwriter, I was always mining my own depths, which were filled with confusion and darkness.
Mary Gauthier
Darkness
Confusion
Own
Mining
My Own
Songwriter
Always
Were
Which
Depths
Filled
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
Experience
Will
Judgment
Met
Think
Soldiers
Empathy
Stereotype
Talk
Because
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
Me
Mother
Unless
Married
Born
Adoption
Put
Catholic
Boyfriend
Up
Get
Get Married
While
Who
Her
I did not know that the wounds of war are often invisible.
Mary Gauthier
War
Wounds
Invisible
Know
Did
Often
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