Alison Krauss Lyric Quotes

I realize that was becoming a contradiction in terms, especially after my friend Alison Krauss was shot and killed in Kent State in 1970 on campus by the National Guard. ~ Surya Das

I went to see Alison Krauss and Union Station at Disney Hall and I would say it was one of the most astonishing sonic experiences I have had. It's an enormous room that's acoustically perfect. My interpretation of receiving music as a layman is that the way the music kind of settled on me in that room was perfection. ~ John C. McGinley

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

When I do listen to music, I'm more prone to listen to the people I've always listened to: George Jones, Otis Redding, Alison Krauss and Emmylou Harris. ~ Dolly Parton

Growing up, we had folk records. ~ Alison Krauss

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

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

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

Alison Krauss is definitely my favorite singer that's ever lived. I've never heard anyone like her. ~ Brad Paisley

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

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

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

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

I have no doubt that most people who listen to Alison Krauss and say they like bluegrass have never heard real bluegrass played in the traditional manner, and probably don't even know who Bill Monroe is. ~ Mark O'Connor

I love being in the world of the unknown. ~ Alison Krauss

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

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

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

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

I don't look for bliss, just contentment. ~ Alison Krauss

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

I used to love, and I still do, Lee Ann Womack. And Alison Krauss. I mean, how many Grammys does she have? She's just remained solid and true and great, and I respect that. ~ Kacey Musgraves

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

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

People are always very nice. ~ Alison Krauss

Jean Prouvaire was timid only in repose. Once excited, he burst forth, a sort of mirth accentuated his enthusiasm, and he was at once both laughing and lyric. ~ Victor Hugo

Never feel bad for being assertive, speaking your mind, and putting your foot down. What you think is anger, others see as a good solid display of self-esteem. ~ Alison James

At Sandwich, in 1579, she paid the magistrates' wives a great compliment when, without employing a food taster, she sampled some of the 160 dishes they had prepared for her and even ordered some to be taken to her lodgings so that she could eat them later. ~ Alison Weir

For someone who did a lot of yoga and had a peace sign tramp stamp on her lower back, she sure could be a bitch. ~ Alison Umminger

If you see everything through the lens, you are constantly composing pictures. I think in pictures; I don't think in text. ~ Alison Jackson

But common sense is deceptive precisely because it is based on common experience. ~ Lawrence M. Krauss

You hear a sound and it's truth turning in its grave. ~ Nicole Krauss

I went through a string of A&R men who all thought I should be doing something different. One thought I should be a dance diva; another thought I should do Rock n' Roll; and one thought I shouldn't even be singing at all! ~ Alison Moyet