#ever

I find the songs I want to record by listening to as much music as I can. 'When I hear things I really like, I ask the writers to send me a tape of everything they've ever written. ↗

— Alison Krauss

#ever #everything #find #hear #i

I never had any big dreams about doing something on a huge scale. ↗

— Alison Krauss

#any #big #doing #dreams #had

Songs come from all over the place. You can't predict what you're going to like. You might like something that doesn't fit right now. What was working for you at one point, something you've loved for years and years, when you get together with everybody, you think, this doesn't match up with what's going on with you personally. ↗

— Alison Krauss

#everybody #fit #get #get together #going

Whenever I've chosen a song because it's clever, it's always turned out to be a mistake. ↗

— Alison Krauss

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You know, if you really want to fiddle the old-time way, you've got to learn the dance. The contra-dances, hoedowns. It's all in the rhythm of the bow. The great North Carolina fiddle player Tommy Jarrell said, 'If a feller can't bow, he'll never make a fiddler. He might make a violin player, but he'll never make no fiddler.' ↗

— Alison Krauss

#carolina #dance #fiddle #fiddler #got

Oh Mr.Webster could never define what's being said between your heart and mine. ↗

— Allison Krauss

#between #could #define #heart #mine

The smile on your face lets me know that you need me, there's a truth in your heart that says you'll never leave me, and the touch of your hand says you'll catch me whenever I fall. ↗

— Allison Krauss

#face #fall #hand #heart #i

Every two years the American politics industry fills the airwaves with the most virulent, scurrilous, wall-to-wall character assassination of nearly every political practitioner in the country - and then declares itself puzzled that America has lost trust in its politicians. ↗

— Charles Krauthammer

#america #american #american politics #assassination #character

Science has everything to say about what is possible. Science has nothing to say about what is permissible. ↗

— Charles Krauthammer

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As I said there is nothing wrong with failing. Pick yourself up and try it again. You never are going to know how good you really are until you go out and face failure. ↗

— Henry Kravis

#face #failing #failure #go #going