Alison Krauss Quotes

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.

I think you translate emotion better when you take your hands off.

There's a restless feeling knocking on my door today ...

I love being in the world of the unknown.

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.

I think that people respond to honesty in music, so I only choose songs that are the truth for me.

Oh Mr. Webster could never define what's being said between your heart and mine.

Maybe I can stand alone. Maybe I'm strong as stone. Even though the bird has flown, maybe you'll fly on home.

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.

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.

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.

I don't look for bliss, just contentment.

Growing up, we had folk records.

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.

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.

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'.

Someday I'll get over you. I'll live to see it all through. But I'll always miss dreaming my dreams with you.

People are always 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.

I never had any big dreams about doing something on a huge scale.