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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
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Alison Krauss
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: July 23
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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
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A whole album to one writer - now that would be really interesting.
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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.
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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.
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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'
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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.
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I think that people respond to honesty in music, so I only choose songs that are the truth for me.
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Whenever I've chosen a song because it's clever, it's always turned out to be a mistake.
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If you don't know what makes green, you're going to try every color combination.
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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.
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There are so many great songs yet to sing.
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I think you translate emotion better when you take your hands off.
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I don't look for bliss, just contentment.
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There's a restless feeling knocking on my door today.
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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.
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Some things feel really good to sing: there's a physical aspect, but there's more to it - a deeper place you go to.
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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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People are always very nice.
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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
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Being in the studio is a really romantic time.
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