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Quotes by Musician
"You know, you want everything you do, obviously, to be a success critically and commercially. But what you find out as you go along is that everything won't."
"With this album, I tried not to think too much. If I heard a song that I loved, I promised myself I wouldn't over-think it. If I loved it and if I wanted to cut it, I would."
"When you really are country, and you don't just wear it like a piece of clothing or something, you really can't get away from it. It just is who you are."
"Well, probably having to be away from home. When I come back I kind of feel like there's a routine going on that I'm not a part of, so that can be difficult."
"The satisfaction that I get from doing what I do is not what I thought. I thought it would be that I'd feel like a star, I'd feel important. But I don't."
"The satisfaction comes because you work hard and it pays off. It is not as glamorous as I thought it would be, but, you know, I appreciate it more than I ever knew I would, and I love it more than I ever knew I would."
"I don't sing country music because I'm not capable of singing other kinds of music; I sing it because I think it's the most beautiful kind of music there is."
"I've learned the lesson that when you're in the middle of something that seems overwhelming, or you're in a bad situation and it seems like it's the end of the world or whatever, then you learn that it's not."
"I'm a businesswoman. I am a music lover. I like for people to like my music. When you listen to top 40 radio, you hear pop stuff. You hear rock stuff. You hear all these different influences."
"I think you can have moderate success by copying something else, but if you really want to knock it out of the park, you have to do something different and take chances."
"I think it is very important in this business to be an individual."
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"I think a lot of it had to do with, you know, I was always a daddy's girl. I was always wanting to please him, and I think he was pleased when he'd walk past my room and I was listening to those records."
"So it's more the musician in me that makes me stretch out and try different things more than anything. But, like a lot of guitar players, I have one certain niche that's my thing that I'm better at than the others."
"You can't base your life on other people's expectations."
"Sometimes, I feel I am really blessed to be blind because I probably would not last a minute if I were able to see things."
"Mama was my greatest teacher, a teacher of compassion, love and fearlessness. If love is sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love."
"I am a conservative type of person, so sometimes when I'm chilling with myself, people always come ask me, 'What's wrong with you? What are you wondering about?'"
"It's always a live experience - anything that happens around you. It's so easy to just put it to a song."
"My first encounter with a Kelly was not on a musical scale. It was from primary school. Dave and I went to primary school together and we were like boy scouts."
"Had he learned to draw, M. Renoir would have made a very pleasing canvas out of his 'Boating Party'."
"I feel that it is healthier to look out at the world through a window than through a mirror. Otherwise, all you see is yourself and whatever is behind you."
"When I did it with Johnny, it was almost a telepathic kind of communication."
"There's a bootleg album that was recorded when I was 14 or 15, a compilation of things live at different clubs. Songs like Girl from Ipanema and Cry Me A River. I don't know what the title of it is."
"I can't imagine anything more worthwhile than doing what I most love. And they pay me for it."
Love,
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