Kat Edmonson Quotes

#1. 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

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

Kat Edmonson

#3. Everyone is the other and no one is himself.

Martin Heidegger

#4. Does anyone remember the name of Paul Revere's horse?

Joe Jackson

#5. 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

#6. He who is firmly seated in authority soon learns to think security, and not progress, the highest lesson in statecraft.

James Russell Lowell

#7. I want to play more festivals.

Kat Edmonson

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

Kat Edmonson

#9. 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

#10. Michael was still an enigma, wrapped in a riddle, coated in yum. Only now the enigma was a little less mysterious; I was a few clues closer to solving the riddle - but damn, that man would always be coated in yum.

Lisa Shearin

#11. My second favorite household chore is ironing. My first being hitting my head on the top bunk bed until I faint.

Erma Bombeck

#12. There is a wonderful feeling when you walk into your own exhibition. You see the work as a true extension of yourself. Win or lose, your interests have led you to an accumulation of your personal expression, signed lower right,
mounted to best advantage.

Robert Genn

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

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#14. 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

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

Kat Edmonson

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

Kat Edmonson

#17. 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.

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#18. 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.

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

Kat Edmonson