"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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Source : "Alison Kraus: Back to her roots" by Alfred Hickling, www.theguardian.com. April 14, 2011.

Alison Krauss

#Honesty Quotes #Soul Quotes #Hay Quotes

“Some studies make such a deep impression on you that they stay etched in your memory forever.”
“writing is the loneliest job in the world. There's always that frustrating chasm to bridge between the concept and the writing of it. We're a harassed tribe, we writers.”
“But as the business grows, you get more attention, and then you realize that the whole world is trying to get time from you. Which is amazing. But every time you give it to the world, you give less to what you’re doing.”

Source : "Secrets Of The Most Productive People". www.fastcompany.com. November 18, 2014.
“A god who is all love, all grace, all mercy, no sovereignty, no justice, no holiness, and no wrath is an idol.”

Source : Twitter post from Nov 17, 2015
“The joy sometimes is in the simple beauty.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“The harvest of a quiet eye, That broods and sleeps on his own heart.”
“In the future, I mean to be a fine streamside entomologist. I'm going to start on that when I am much too old to do any of the two thousand things I can think of that are more fun than screening insects in cold running water”

Source : Thomas McGuane (2014). “The Longest Silence: A Life in Fishing”, p.6, Vintage
“...I feel more alive when I'm writing than I do at any other time--except when I'm making love. Two things when you forget time, when nothing exists except the moment--the moment of writing, the moment of love. That perfect concentration is bliss.”

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