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I don't look for bliss, just contentment.

Alison Krauss

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Alison Krauss
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: July 23
Fiddler
Mandolinist
Musician
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Decatur
Illinois
Alison Maria Krauss
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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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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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I'm much better at fixing or changing a melody to suit me than I would a lyric. But for me, everything is lyric. It has to be true for me to say it.
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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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I started with the classical violin when I was 6, and I guess it went well.
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If you don't know what makes green, you're going to try every color combination.
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I love being in the world of the unknown.
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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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I don't know if bliss is possible and I've always thought that my best times will be later in life.
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Being in the studio is a really romantic time.
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People are always very nice.
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I never had any big dreams about doing something on a huge scale.
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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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There are so many great songs yet to sing.
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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 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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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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A whole album to one writer - now that would be really interesting.
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I still think of myself as from Illinois.
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