Kathy Mattea Quotes
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You have to write badly to write at all. If it's crappy, I will rewrite it later. But it will be mine. You can hear the resonance of an artist who goes into herself.
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Sally Barris has a voice like sparkling crystal. You could have knocked me over with a feather the first time I heard her. Her writing is from a deep, yet innocent, place and her point of view is just a bit off center. I am excited for her, she is standing at the beginning of her journey in this town, with all of it ahead of her. It reminds me of the first time I heard Beth Nielson-Chapman or Nanci Griffith. It's going to be fun to watch.
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I want to savor the aging process. As you get older, you trade your innocence for wisdom and the wisdom is your reward.
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You know, your speaking voice comes back, but your singing voice you use in a different way.
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You've got to dance like nobody's watching, and love like it's never going to hurt.
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There is a string attached to Maia Sharp's voice. And when she sings, you find that the other end is attached to your gut. Her voice is lush and sensual and the emotions she articulates resonate with the small feelings we have that sometimes are hard to face..there is an edge to her songs, but also a softness...she is lyrical and conversational at the same time. Her CD was the only one in my machine for a month. Her work inspires me to dig deeper.
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Dance like nobody's watching ...
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Tonight I feel like all of creation is asking us to dance.
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Chocolate's okay, but I prefer a really intense fruit taste. You know when a peach is absolutely perfect... it's sublime. I'd like to capture that and then use it in a dessert.
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Standing knee deep in a river and dying of thirst.
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I can't even say I've begun yet, but I'm trying on the idea that there is a book in my future.
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An eye for an eye til everyone is blind.
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I jump into the process, and the record begins to gel at some point. Then I begin to get a picture of where I'm going. But it's not always something I know on the front-end.
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I have been blessed to work for so many years with great musicians. That's my joke with my manager: that I'm addicted to musicians.