Rachel Platten Quotes
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I'm one of those people at the airport holding a pillow like a little kid.
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Even if the songs are at times painful - 'cause some of the songs are not all roses and balloons; some of them dig into deep things that I've been going through - there's a joy that I think people feel from my music and, hopefully, from my performance because I am so in love with doing what I do.
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My biggest fear is that I'm not good enough. I have this voice in my head that I've been battling for years that says, 'You're not really talented enough. You don't really deserve this.'
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Lyrics are very important to me. I like speaking to women and saying what I mean.
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I'm so grateful that anyone has connected with my songs, let alone millions of people.
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I wrote my first song when I was six or seven, a silly little song. But I used to write poems in high school - not songs.
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If I wake up in the middle of the night and have an idea, I want to go to my computer and be able to do it. So I hired someone at Guitar Center to come over to my house and teach me Logic music program, and I learned it over a couple months.
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I can beatbox. Well, sort of. I have one beat that I can do, but people get fooled.
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I love... different kinds of music. I like classical music and pop music. I like alternative, and I like rap, hip-hop, and I kind of collected all these things that I love, and they infused my sensibilities, and I just wanted to sing because it felt like it needed to come out of me.
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When I got on stage, I felt this bolt of electricity hit me, and it was this shock of, 'This is exactly what I'm supposed to do with my life.'
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Though I played classical piano since age 5 and sang in a cappella groups, being an artist didn't seem like something I was talented enough to do full time. So I kind of buried that dream.
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I used to feel it was too late for me; I'd had my shot. You couldn't make a pop star out of me.
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I refuse to dress 'hot' for Halloween, 'cause I always have to have makeup and hair and look cute for my job. So on Halloween, I either go gory or weird or funny.
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I feel like I have some stuff that matches 'Fight Song,' not in necessarily the message exactly but in the emotion and honesty.
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There's a joy I think people feel from... my performance.
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I was a political science major in college and dreamed of being a diplomat.
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No matter what, I still was gonna make music, even if it was on a small scale. Even if it was just for me.
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Music truly heals, and I am so grateful to have learned that through Musicians on Call.
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There's this misconception in the industry that you might have to go a little lighter or skate on the surface in order to reach people - and then in your second album, you get to tell who you are.
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I have volunteered for Musicians on Call for the past 12 years because of the incredible one-on-one experiences in hospital rooms when no one other than the patient and I would remember the love that was exchanged.