Edmonson Quotes

#1. If you want to know the reality, you have to become the spirit.

Nirmala Srivastava

#2. I'm always inspired to write, and it's usually my own life experiences that inspire me.

Kat Edmonson

#3. Growing up, my imagined life as a musician was something along the lines of me lounging in a Learjet en route to a swelling outdoor amphitheatre on a dazzling summer's eve.

Kat Edmonson

#4. Very often, writing a song is a process that happens to me rather than one that I instigate. I feel a song coming on and, like a sneeze; I wait for it until it comes.

Kat Edmonson

#5. Few things parallel the bonding that occurs post-performance when congratulatory remarks are awarded, regrets are confessed, and gossip is exchanged.

Kat Edmonson

#6. I grew up with my mom; it was just the two of us.

Kat Edmonson

#7. The first song that I remember writing in its entirety was when I was 9 years old. I wrote it on a bus, on a field trip. It was called 'Mystery Man,' and in retrospect, it was the beginning of my exploration of what it was like to have a man in your life, because I didn't.

Kat Edmonson

#8. Employment is the exploitation of the employer's courage, and, the employed's fear of failure.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#9. It turns out that our notions of what a 'self' is and how it might feel fulfilled have no more objective status than most of the rest of reality. It seems we make ourselves up as we go along.

Maureen O'Hara

#10. Authors tell stories with "the express intention of wanting people to believe them, at least until the book is closed.

Elizabeth Edmonson

#11. Jazz is progressive, and it's alive.

Kat Edmonson

#12. I started growing my audience in small clubs through word-of-mouth. I started making music that isn't necessarily commercially viable, and it's not necessarily marketable to my peers to a certain extent.

Kat Edmonson

#13. Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality.

Lewis Carroll

#14. When I was very young I knew that I wanted to be in show business. I knew that I wanted to be an entertainer.

Kat Edmonson

#15. When I tend to belt, it kind of reminds me of like a more '60s girl doo-wop kind of belting.

Kat Edmonson

#16. We made quite a crew, all talking at once, contradicting and sparring, a cacophony of affectionate arguing.

Patti Smith Just Kids

#17. I want to play more festivals.

Kat Edmonson

#18. For 'Way Down Low', I was particularly inspired by a breakup I was going through and a transition I was making from Austin to New York.

Kat Edmonson

#19. I want to be doing things today, not just flipping through crinkled and yellowed mental pictures of what happened a long time ago.

Bob Goff

#20. Perhaps God dropped them on their heads before they were born.

Ann-Marie MacDonald

#21. I want to tour, everywhere I can, all of the world.

Kat Edmonson