Alison Krauss famous quotes

03-25-2025

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.
-- Alison Krauss

#Honesty #Soul #Hay
I think that people respond to honesty in music, so I only choose songs that are the truth for me.
-- Alison Krauss

#Song #Honesty #Thinking
That's what I love. Not being interrupted, sitting in a car by myself and listening to music in the rain. There are so many great songs yet to sing
-- Alison Krauss

#Song #Rain #Car
It's not that I have resisted songwriting, it's just not something I felt I have had to do. I've just not woken up and thought, I must do this. But I have often heard music that I have instantly felt 'I have to sing that song'
-- Alison Krauss

#Song #Songwriting #Heard
Lyrics are kind of the whole thing; it's the message. Something might have a beautiful melody but if it's not the truth coming out of your mouth, it's not appealing
-- Alison Krauss

#Beautiful #Mouths #Might
When it's open and honest, that's when the real nature of who you are as a vocalist or as a performer, all of that stuff can finally start to become what it's supposed to be. Like a settling into yourself. It's not even a musical thing, it's a whole mindset, a whole acceptance of who you were supposed to be. Life sounds good
-- Alison Krauss

#Real #Acceptance #Musical
I love being in the world of the unknown.
-- Alison Krauss

#Love Is #World
There are so many great songs yet to sing.
-- Alison Krauss

#Song
I grew up in a school that had a big music program, and it was incredible. It's what I looked forward to during the day. I had chorus, strings, band.
-- Alison Krauss

#School #Band #Incredibles
I started with the classical violin when I was 6, and I guess it went well.
-- Alison Krauss

#Violin #Wells
I think you translate emotion better when you take your hands off.
-- Alison Krauss

#Thinking #Hands #Emotion
It's impossible to make a record when you're ill because it affects how you listen to things. You can't make decisions. It all sounds terrible.
-- Alison Krauss

#Decision #Sound #Records
My parents made us do everything, try everything.
-- Alison Krauss

#Parent #Trying #Made
People are always very nice.
-- Alison Krauss

#Nice #People #Very Nice
Some things feel really good to sing: there's a physical aspect, but there's more to it - a deeper place you go to.
-- Alison Krauss

#Aspect #Deeper #Feels
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

#Song #Thinking #Years
I don't look for bliss, just contentment.
-- Alison Krauss

#Contentment #Looks #Bliss
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
-- Alison Krauss

#Titles #Wonderful #Enough
The smile on your face lets me know that you need me, there's a truth in your heart that says you'll never leave me, and the touch of your hand says you'll catch me whenever I fall.
-- Alison Krauss

#Romantic #Fall #Heart
There's a restless feeling knocking on my door today...
-- Alison Krauss

#Doors #Feelings #Today
A whole album to one writer - now that would be really interesting.
-- Alison Krauss

#Interesting #Albums #Would Be
Being in the studio is a really romantic time.
-- Alison Krauss

#Really Romantic
I still think of myself as from Illinois.
-- Alison Krauss

#Thinking #Illinois #Stills
Growing up I used to love bands like Free and ELO and the Rolling Stones. When Robert Plant got in touch it made perfect sense to me.
-- Alison Krauss

#Growing Up #Perfect #Rolling
I don't get recognised in London or at home either - very seldom anyway. Either that or I look so crazy no one wants to come up to me.
-- Alison Krauss

#Crazy #Home #Looks
I don't know if bliss is possible and I've always thought that my best times will be later in life.
-- Alison Krauss

#Bliss
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.
-- Alison Krauss

#Song #Listening #Tape
I never had any big dreams about doing something on a huge scale.
-- Alison Krauss

#Dream #Bigs #Scales
If you don't know what makes green, you're going to try every color combination.
-- Alison Krauss

#Color #Trying #Green

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