Lari White Quotes

Lari White

Profession : Musician

Birth : May 13, 1965

I studied jazz in college. I studied music history, and I have a degree in music engineering.

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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.

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

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The biggest impact that acting and theater had was, of course, stage presence, but it also had a big impact on my writing.

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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.

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

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I think in order to find your audience and let them get to know you, you have to introduce yourself a little at a time.

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I want to be able to take singles, serve them up to radio on a silver platter and just have them smoke - just obvious great-sounding, great-feeling radio singles.

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

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Leaving your old record label doesn't have to be a stall in your career. It's like new life being breathed into it.

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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.

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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.

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

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

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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.

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Chuck is definitely my favorite co-writer, and my best. It is really hard to make yourself vulnerable enough for somebody to get inside your head while songwriting. Chuck and I find writing together very non-competitive and just really easy.

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