Kelsea Ballerini Quotes
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I was raised on a farm in East Tennessee, and my first concert was Britney Spears. It's my job as a country music artist to be honest about that.
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As a young woman, I just think there's something really confident and empowering about being able to flirt back.
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I was writing country songs, but I wasn't listening to country yet. I grew up on a farm in East Tennessee, so my roots are country, you know? But I didn't know where those songs came from or where they fit.
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I was a huge Jonas Brothers fan, unapologetically, when I was 12 or 13.
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I'm so weird and quirky, and painfully awkward sometimes.
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There are certain days I will get home, and something will pop up on my Twitter, and I will just cry about it. I get so overwhelmed that I get to do what I do.
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I am a fan before I am an artist. I was that twelve year old girl that looked up to Taylor Swift. I get what that role is as a fan. I think that because I know that, I'm really careful and intentional about what I say and what I put out. I want to be that role for anyone who wants me to be that.
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I did ballet, jazz, and all that, but I think hip-hop is really where I learned rhythm and groove, which has helped me in music.
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I'm not super traditional at all.
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I try to be a good person. I love Jesus.
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It's been really cool to me to watch someone like Sam Hunt, whose lyrics and roots are in country but you can hear that he listens to Drake and Justin Timberlake - and that's OK. It allows songwriters to be more honest because it's like, 'This is who I'm listening to.'
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I've always wanted to dye my hair a bright color.
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I would love to do a duet with Gavin Degraw. Or Ed Sheeran.
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I love having that conversation with someone I've never met before who's enjoying something that I wrote and being able to connect and share that.
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The fun thing about song writing is that it's just creative. It can be whatever you want it to be. For me, I'm really protective of that. I'm not going to write something because I feel like it fits here or it fits there - I just want to write music that feels good to me, you know?
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'Peter Pan,' I think, was a game-changer. That was the first song that really had some heartbeat to it... I think that's the song that got people's attention.
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Even though there are incredible songs floating around Nashville, it's important for me to have my voice heard.
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It took a while to learn to eat healthy on road. It's really hard. Really, really hard. But on the bus, I can use the stovetop in the morning to make a veggie scramble. And have lots and lots and lots of coffee. I try to have protein for dinner so I have energy for the show.
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I always thought it was a goat that kicked me over the fence. My mama told me the other day it was a cow. Now I'm sort of scared of both.
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I'm in this wave with Maddie & Tae and RaeLynn and Mickey Guyton and Cam. We're all kind of finding our niches and becoming successful. I think that it's just been really fun to be with them and do this all together.
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You really do have to be different. You really do have to set yourself apart.
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I love Taylor Swift, and I've always been such a fan of her.
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I try to exercise when I'm on road - I really do try - but I also try not to push myself too hard. I just try to move.
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With Rascal Flatts, I'm such a fan of them, and I feel like they've been so gracefully relevant through decades of country music.