Kelsea Ballerini Quotes
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'The First Time' is a song that I wrote by myself on my front porch, in real-time, as that situation was happening to me.
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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 want to stay where I am. I'm stoked to be a country artist.
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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 try to be a good person. I love Jesus.
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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 wouldn't be an artist if I didn't have Shania Twain, Faith Hill, Taylor Swift to look up to.
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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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My biggest dream is to headline an arena tour.
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I think that I've just kind of found my niche, if that makes sense. I still write the same, but I feel like I've found what separates me, and I always try to stay in that when I write. It took me a long time to discover that, so I try to be protective.
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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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Even though there are incredible songs floating around Nashville, it's important for me to have my voice heard.
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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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I'm so weird and quirky, and painfully awkward sometimes.
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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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I feel a loyalty to my favorite artists, and to have my fans feel that, for me, is a special bond because I've been there for so long.
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You really do have to be different. You really do have to set yourself apart.
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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.
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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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'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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I love Taylor Swift, and I've always been such a fan of her.
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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?