Alison Krauss Quotes

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Alison Krauss

Profession : Musician

Birth : July 23, 1971

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.

Alison Krauss

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.

Alison Krauss

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

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

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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.

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People are always very nice.

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

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

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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.

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You know, if you really want to fiddle the old-time way, you've got to learn the dance. The contra-dances, hoedowns. It's all in the rhythm of the bow. The great North Carolina fiddle player Tommy Jarrell said, 'If a feller can't bow, he'll never make a fiddler. He might make a violin player, but he'll never make no fiddler.'

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

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

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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.

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Growing up, we had folk records.

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