Top 30 Lari White Quotes

I kept getting these little messages through friends: ‘Chuck Cannon thinks you are really cute.’ And, ‘Would you go out with him?’ It was just like high school. It was really funny.

If there’s any profit to be had in Nashville-Underground, it’s very long term. We’re not about money, which gives us an edge over the labels.

The most difficult part is just to get heard.

It used to be that labels would spend two or three or four albums developing a new artist before they threw in the towel and moved on, which kind of gave the artist an opportunity to grow.

One of the things I liked so much about the women artists I saw in Nashville was that they were appreciated for their music and their talent, not because they were wearing skimpy outfits and showing a lot of skin.

I’d always wanted to be a mom. Actually, being a mom was always my top priority. It was like, ‘I’m going to be a star and I’m going to get done with that and then I’m going to go be a mom.’

I’m building my fan base around the fact that here’s someone who does things a little differently, who brings other musical influences into country music, and you never really know what she’s going to do next.

No one would ever have heard Marcus Hummon’s version of ‘Cowboy, Take Me Away’ if he hadn’t recorded it on the Sampler. I would have heard it because I hear him sing all the time, but no one else would have been able to enjoy it, and now they can and will be able to for years.

I could never really see myself being a pop artist.

Music is like church to me. It’s as spiritual a connection as I just about ever make.

To willfully harm another human being goes against everything I believe in.

I really felt like it was a dangerous trap to get into, having had such great success with ‘Wishes,’ it just wasn’t in my blood not to play it safe and just do that again.

I love music with my soul, but I’m also a student of it, so it’s very important to me to earn the respect of my peers, my fellow musicians and producers.

I made my living as a theater actor before I got my record deal.

I’ve gone gold. I’m very excited.

My career has been two steps forward and three steps back.

I’m not interested in artistic records for the sake of making artistic records where they’re so cool no one listens to them.

Now that I’m married it’s hard to be away from my husband, the house, my dog. But I really love being on the road.

I studied classical piano from the time I was 4 through my first year of college.

The most rewarding experience as a musician is to know that I moved people personally.

I’d spent a year and a half without a record deal and had been doing a lot of soul-searching, a lot of self-examination and a lot of experimentation in other musical forms.

Music does communicate across language and racial and religious and philosophical barriers. It is one of the most distilled forms of human emotions.

I have a fan base. I’ve sold a million albums in country music. I’ve got fans out there who love my music and would like to hear more.

I really wanted a No. 1 single from my first album, but I would not do anything different. It was real and honest and I didn’t pretend anything.

Getting up in front of an audience is my biggest motivation.

It didn’t take very long for me to feel like the country radio box was a little too small. So that’s what ‘Don’t Fence Me In’ was all about.

I never thought I’d be able to say 25 years about anything, really, much less be a recording artist for 25 years.

I was not ready fresh out of high school to hit the streets of Nashville.

I feel so fortunate I was able to grow up in such a warm, loving, safe, beautiful community that I still call home.

I found when I started getting serious about writing music, that my writing was country songs. It was basically country subject matter, country melodies and simple chord changes.