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Alison Krauss Quotes:

Alison Krauss quotes

Ocupation: Singer-songwriter

Life: b. July 23, 1971

Birthday: July 23

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You know, for most of its life bluegrass has had this stigma of being all straw hats and hay bales and not necessarily the most sophisticated form of music. Yet you can't help responding to its honesty. It's music that finds its way deep into your soul because it's strings vibrating against wood and nothing else.

source: - "Alison Kraus: Back to her roots" by Alfred Hickling, www.theguardian.com. April 14, 2011.

Topics: Honesty, Soul, Hay, Straw Hats, Bluegrass

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

Topics: Song, Honesty, Thinking

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

Topics: Song, Rain, Car

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'

Topics: Song, Songwriting, Heard

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

Topics: Beautiful, Mouths, Might

When it's open and honest, that's when the real nature of who you are as a vocalist or as a performer, all of that stuff can finally start to become what it's supposed to be. Like a settling into yourself. It's not even a musical thing, it's a whole mindset, a whole acceptance of who you were supposed to be. Life sounds good

Topics: Real, Acceptance, Musical, Vocalist

I love being in the world of the unknown.

Topics: Love Is, World

There are so many great songs yet to sing.

Topics: Song

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.

Topics: School, Band, Incredibles, Chorus

I started with the classical violin when I was 6, and I guess it went well.

Topics: Violin, Wells

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

Topics: Thinking, Hands, Emotion

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.

source: - "Alison Kraus: Back to her roots" by Alfred Hickling, www.theguardian.com. April 14, 2011.

Topics: Decision, Sound, Records

My parents made us do everything, try everything.

Topics: Parent, Trying, Made

People are always very nice.

Topics: Nice, People, Very Nice

Some things feel really good to sing: there's a physical aspect, but there's more to it - a deeper place you go to.

Topics: Aspect, Deeper, Feels, Places You Go

Songs come from all over the place. You can't predict what you're going to like. You might like something that doesn't fit right now. What was working for you at one point, something you've loved for years and years, when you get together with everybody, you think, this doesn't match up with what's going on with you personally.

Topics: Song, Thinking, Years, Like Something

I don't look for bliss, just contentment.

Topics: Contentment, Looks, Bliss

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

Topics: Titles, Wonderful, Enough, Bluegrass

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.

Topics: Romantic, Fall, Heart

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

source: - Song: Every Time You Say Goodbye, Album: Every Time You Say Goodbye, 1992

Topics: Doors, Feelings, Today

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

Topics: Interesting, Albums, Would Be

Being in the studio is a really romantic time.

Topics: Really Romantic

I still think of myself as from Illinois.

Topics: Thinking, Illinois, Stills

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.

Topics: Growing Up, Perfect, Rolling, Used To Love

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.

Topics: Crazy, Home, Looks

I don't know if bliss is possible and I've always thought that my best times will be later in life.

Topics: Bliss, Best Times

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.

Topics: Song, Listening, Tape

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

Topics: Dream, Bigs, Scales

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

Topics: Color, Trying, Green

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.

source: - Source: www.pbs.org

Topics: Fixing, Suits, Being True

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

Topics: Song, Clever, Mistake

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