Rachel Platten Quotes

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Rachel Platten

Profession : Musician

Birth : May 20, 1981

I think you find universal truth when you get really honest with yourself and you can reach people. If you go deep enough, you have that core feeling, and that feeling can transcend the details of your experience.

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I've been doing this career for a really long time, but there was not a lot of reason, at the time when I wrote 'Fight Song,' to believe that I should keep going.

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There's this misconception in the industry that you might have to go a little lighter or skate on the surface in order to reach people - and then in your second album, you get to tell who you are.

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I love Kelly Clarkson's message, and I've heard comparisons to P!nk.

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I think, like any artist, those baby songs are not the best things you've ever written, but they count because they're you're first attempts at creating art and expressing yourself.

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I got a little bit lost in the writing process: like, that moment in the 'Fight Song' music video where I'm throwing the crumpled paper on the bed, that was really true life. I was filling journals with different possibilities of lyrics for the first verse. And none of them felt right.

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If I wake up in the middle of the night and have an idea, I want to go to my computer and be able to do it. So I hired someone at Guitar Center to come over to my house and teach me Logic music program, and I learned it over a couple months.

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I wrote my first song when I was six or seven, a silly little song. But I used to write poems in high school - not songs.

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I'm a big yogi.

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I feel crazy that me sticking with my dreams actually worked. It's wild and incredible.

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Even if I'm making music for people for $20 a night, at least I'm making music.

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I do a lot of visualisations and meditation and a lot of hippie stuff.

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My friends and family have always been extremely supportive, but the support I've received from fans has been so overwhelming. I love hearing all of their 'Fight Song' stories; I have been so inspired by so many of them.

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I have always loved music. My mom used to sing with my sister and I when I was younger, and I was in choirs and loved to perform, but when I was in college, I went on a study abroad to Trinidad, and while I was there, I sang backup at my first concert.

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I want to continue to remain present and grateful each day that I get to be doing what I love. Making and performing music I believe in.

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I've always sung in choirs and acapella groups, but when I was in college, I finally started writing songs and playing with a band, and that ignited a desire to do it full time and pour everything I had into it.

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I think my best friend is dry shampoo and dry texturizer spray.

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I played piano growing up. I played classical piano since I was 5, and I sang in choirs, and I sang in plays and musicals.

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Wherever I go, people are so kind and so lovely and so warm and show their best self. So I feel very lucky.

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I love... different kinds of music. I like classical music and pop music. I like alternative, and I like rap, hip-hop, and I kind of collected all these things that I love, and they infused my sensibilities, and I just wanted to sing because it felt like it needed to come out of me.

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