Alison Krauss Quotes

#1. When I do listen to music, I'm more prone to listen to the people I've always listened to: George Jones, Otis Redding, Alison Krauss and Emmylou Harris.

Dolly Parton

#2. I've been devoted to Alison Krauss for many, many years.

Ashley Judd

#3. I have no doubt that most people who listen to Alison Krauss and say they like bluegrass have never heard real bluegrass played in the traditional manner, and probably don't even know who Bill Monroe is.

Mark O'Connor

#4. I think Alison Krauss and her band are the best today. The same goes for Rick Skaggs and his band.

Rick Moranis

#5. I realize that was becoming a contradiction in terms, especially after my friend Alison Krauss was shot and killed in Kent State in 1970 on campus by the National Guard.

Surya Das

#6. I used to love, and I still do, Lee Ann Womack. And Alison Krauss. I mean, how many Grammys does she have? She's just remained solid and true and great, and I respect that.

Kacey Musgraves

#7. Alison Krauss is definitely my favorite singer that's ever lived. I've never heard anyone like her.

Brad Paisley

#8. I never had any big dreams about doing something on a huge scale.

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#9. People are always very nice.

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#10. There's a restless feeling knocking on my door today ...

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#11. I still think of myself as from Illinois.

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#12. A whole album to one writer - now that would be really interesting.

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#13. I think that people respond to honesty in music, so I only choose songs that are the truth for me.

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#14. I love hard singing.

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#15. I love being in the world of the unknown.

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#16. Being in the studio is a really romantic time.

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#17. 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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#18. If you don't know what makes green, you're going to try every color combination.

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#19. Oh Mr. Webster could never define what's being said between your heart and mine.

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#20. 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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#21. 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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#22. Growing up, we had folk records.

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#23. 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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#24. You say it best, when you say nothing at all.

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#25. 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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#26. 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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#27. 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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#28. 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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#29. I started with the classical violin when I was 6, and I guess it went well.

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#30. I think you translate emotion better when you take your hands off.

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#31. Whenever I've chosen a song because it's clever, it's always turned out to be a mistake.

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#32. 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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#33. 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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#34. 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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#35. 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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#36. My parents made us do everything, try everything.

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#37. 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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#38. I don't look for bliss, just contentment.

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#39. 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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#40. 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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