Ruston Kelly Quotes

My theory is that if I can stay present in the moment in my life as frequent as possible the artwork will be more reflective of my nature and my experiences.

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• Experience
• Nature
• Present

I feel the most centered in my life when I’m performing a song.

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• Song
• Performing
• Centered

A folk melody can exist uniquely but also still be somewhat familiar to you.

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• Melody
• Folk
• Uniquely

Songwriting has always been a means to an end for me. That end being a tool to try to understand myself in the world and, through observation, make sense of the world.

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• World
• Sense
• Songwriting

You can be whoever you want to be when you are writing songs.

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• Writing
• Songs
• Can Be

I was writing songs, I guess, a sense of lyricism before I started picking up the guitar. Once I picked up the guitar, I felt I started expressing myself in that medium without words.

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• Words
• Guitar
• Expressing

It’s a successful feeling when someone tells you that you were instrumental in helping them heal from a great wound in their life.

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• Life
• Heal
• Tells

We are all dually feminine and masculine. To give in to both of those things would strengthen us as human beings and there is such a drastic difference between men, and men who are terrified of their own femininity.

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• Human
• Difference
• Femininity

I can write about pain without experiencing pain, which I am thankful for.

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• Pain
• Write
• Experiencing

I used to feel that if I wasn't living out my songs, I wasn't doing myself or my craft justice, and that's a dangerous way to live because then you become what you make.

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• Justice
• Songs
• Craft