Laura Bell Bundy Quotes

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Laura Bell Bundy

Profession : Actress

Birth : April 10, 1981

I am trying so hard to live in the moment and enjoy it while it's happening, because it feels like a moving freight train that I just got on, and I'm trying not to look back and get dizzy!

Laura Bell Bundy

What I loved about country music when I was a kid was the Grand Ole Opry, was 'Hee Haw,' was 360 degrees of entertainment.

Laura Bell Bundy

I've always listened to and loved country music ever since I was a kid.

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I had a band with a girl in New York, and we would go around and do gigs. And then I happened to start getting work as an actress.

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'Hairspray' was my first Broadway show. In the meantime, after the show was over, I would go down and do gigs at these clubs that I wasn't even old enough to get into. That continued on, and I think what ended up happening was that I just got these incredible opportunities on Broadway.

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I'm fearless, to a degree.

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A lot of the music I listen to is indie rock. It's not on the radio.

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I was kind of going that route with my country music. Indie country. Which would work, if I was playing on Americana stages. Unless I had a television outlet like 'Glee'.

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I kept writing all these ballads; they're me speaking about life. But how am I gonna do the live show I wanna do if I don't have something I can dance to?

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I started to write a lot of ballads that were sultry and had a Norah Jones-for-country kind of feel. I wanted to bring elements of old soul music and old country music.

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I feel really blessed to first of all have the opportunity to do music, and second of all to have it be going well.

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It always amazes me when I see young people with raw talent and passion.

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I had a very active imagination as a kid, and I was constantly performing, whether I was making money doing it or not, whether it was on a stage in front of 1,000 people or in the living room in front of my family.

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My father has a manufacturing company in Kentucky, and he's an electrical engineer. A brilliant man. A brilliant businessman. So he understands the business aspects of my business very well. My dad and I always communicate when I have to negotiate a deal.

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I dropped the 'Bundy' with my country music because I wanted it to be two separate things: There's me as a songwriter and a country singer, and there's me as a Broadway performer.

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I can't take the theater side out of myself.

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I can only speak for myself and my own music, because that is what I am most familiar with, and I write about things that I am living or experiencing.

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Around 14, I was turned on to Shania, Reba, Merle Haggard, Garth Brooks, Trisha Yearwood... and I've followed it ever since.

Laura Bell Bundy

I listened to country music my whole life. I started writing music when I was a teenager. It all came out country.

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You know, I had the music baskets and the writing basket. And I had the acting. And those eggs just hatched first, and the others were slow to incubate.

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