Top 33 Alison Krauss Quotes
#1. The smile on your face lets me know that you need me, there's a truth in your heart that says you'll never leave me, and the touch of your hand says you'll catch me whenever I fall.
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#2. It's impossible to make a record when you're ill because it affects how you listen to things. You can't make decisions. It all sounds terrible.
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#3. I find the songs I want to record by listening to as much music as I can. 'When I hear things I really like, I ask the writers to send me a tape of everything they've ever written.
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#4. I grew up in a school that had a big music program, and it was incredible. It's what I looked forward to during the day. I had chorus, strings, band.
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#5. I started with the classical violin when I was 6, and I guess it went well.
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#6. I think you translate emotion better when you take your hands off.
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#7. Whenever I've chosen a song because it's clever, it's always turned out to be a mistake.
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#8. Some things feel really good to sing: there's a physical aspect, but there's more to it - a deeper place you go to.
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#10. The grand old lady of bluegrass? Well, wouldn't that be a wonderful title to have? I hope I do enough to earn it some day.
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#11. That's what I love. Not being interrupted, sitting in a car by myself and listening to music in the rain. There are so many great songs yet to sing.
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#12. My parents made us do everything, try everything.
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#13. It's not that I have resisted songwriting, it's just not something I felt I have had to do. I've just not woken up and thought, I must do this. But I have often heard music that I have instantly felt 'I have to sing that song'.
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#15. I don't know if bliss is possible and I've always thought that my best times will be later in life.
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#16. I'm much better at fixing or changing a melody to suit me than I would a lyric. But for me, everything is lyric. It has to be true for me to say it.
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#17. Lyrics are kind of the whole thing; it's the message. Something might have a beautiful melody but if it's not the truth coming out of your mouth, it's not appealing.
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#18. I never had any big dreams about doing something on a huge scale.
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#19. There's a restless feeling knocking on my door today ...
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#21. A whole album to one writer - now that would be really interesting.
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#22. I think that people respond to honesty in music, so I only choose songs that are the truth for me.
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#25. Being in the studio is a really romantic time.
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#26. Growing up I used to love bands like Free and ELO and the Rolling Stones. When Robert Plant got in touch it made perfect sense to me.
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#27. If you don't know what makes green, you're going to try every color combination.
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#28. Oh Mr. Webster could never define what's being said between your heart and mine.
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#29. Someday I'll get over you. I'll live to see it all through. But I'll always miss dreaming my dreams with you.
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#30. I don't go there much. You're thrilled that people would recognize what you're doing in such a grand kind of way. But, just like you don't know if anybody's really going to like what you're doing when you put a record out or if anybody's going to pay attention to it, you can't really go there.
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#32. I don't get recognised in London or at home either - very seldom anyway. Either that or I look so crazy no one wants to come up to me.
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