K. D. Lang Quotes
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My voice and the styles and genres I sing all express my appreciation for what I hear.
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You have to respect your audience. Without them, you're essentially standing alone, singing to yourself.
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I think I have a better sense of my weaknesses - being self-important, selfish and having a big ego probably triggers all the other stuff. I can see myself more clearly.
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I just try to live a really simple, natural life, because obviously, life has an impact on your voice.
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I think I don't sing as hard as I used to sing. I used to kind of hit the accelerator a lot back in my youth, but now it's just being able to control it, and not work it so hard and use more of an emotional or sub textual kind of approach to singing.
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I'm a singer and as long as I can sing - which, thank God, is something that I still seem to be able to do - I'd like to carry on making records.
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I sort of believe that my voice was preordained; I'm a Buddhist who believes in reincarnation so I think that my voice is a few lifetimes old.
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Country music was a part of my life. Now it isn't. We had a good relationship, really, but we wanted each other at arm's length. The people in Nashville didn't want to be responsible for my looks or my actions. But they sure did like the listeners I brought.
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Heartache is very fertile ground for song-making but so is happiness, so is absolute bliss.
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We're in a period where society seems very attracted to flash, and that seeps into people's musical taste.
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It's just a theory really, but I have always thought that your physical surroundings can shape your voice and personality.
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I just try to speak passionately about things I'm involved in and moved by.
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I don't believe that human beings are necessarily monogamous.
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I don't sing anything that hurts my voice.
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I'm nearly 50. I'm past being photographed falling out of bars.
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I believe in monogamy if that's what a couple decides upon together, but it all depends on the personal history and culture of the two involved.
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Spend time reflecting on your emotional and physical existence and how that applies to the voice. You have to apply that wisdom and experience when you sing - it's what comes through.
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The older I get, the more I embrace who I am.
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I just really allowed my muse to be my guide and I just go with whatever I'm feeling.
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I mean, I am fully aware of my influence and my responsibility to society in general representing the gay community. But in the same time, I don't represent the entire gay community because it's a vast, vast community, as one can imagine.
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I never get tired of exploring Americana or country music, and I always have a little bit of a crooner in me that never seems to go away.
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The sky is an infinite movie to me. I never get tired of looking at what's happening up there.
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It was kind of easier for me to do records that didn't take a year or two years of my life to write and to make.
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Life is so impermanent that it's not about somebody else or things around me, it's about knowing you are completely alone in this world and being content inside.