Words matter. These are the best Alison Krauss Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
My parents made us do everything, try everything.
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.
I think that people respond to honesty in music, so I only choose songs that are the truth for me.
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.
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.
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’.
A whole album to one writer – now that would be really interesting.
There are so many great songs yet to sing.
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.
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.
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.
I don’t look for bliss, just contentment.
I love hard singing.
I love being in the world of the unknown.
Some things feel really good to sing: there’s a physical aspect, but there’s more to it – a deeper place you go to.
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.
Oh Mr. Webster could never define what’s being said between your heart and mine.
I never had any big dreams about doing something on a huge scale.
I think you translate emotion better when you take your hands off.
You say it best, when you say nothing at all.
I don’t know if bliss is possible and I’ve always thought that my best times will be later in life.
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.
