Alison Krauss Quotes

If I'm in the middle of a take and I start to think about what I'm doing, I just mess up and I have to stop and so I find that for me, you really need to trust your instinct.

I can concentrate on my art.

If I have a show at night, I like to spend the whole day alone in silence. I know that might be crazy.

With me, I record so much that I just get in the zone.

When making any record, a producer has a list of things you hope an artist brings to the studio. Songs that are strong even without the bells and whistles.

I definitely use "smiling while rapping" as a tool in the booth. I want to have fun while recording. At times it can get tedious and stressful when it's not sounding the way you heard it in your head, but you've got to remember to just smile and appreciate the fact that you're even in the booth and there are people who want to hear your art.

I don't think any of us felt like, "Oh, we need to put joke songs on the record." If we found something funny, we would record it, and if we wanted to, we'd put it on the record. It's not really something we spent too much time agonizing over.

We can't play if we are ill or not completely fit.

I'm not the most technical producer, so the weird mixes and blown-out sound happen naturally.

There's the drums, the music, the melodies, the lyrics, the production, the artwork: there are so many elements to making an album, and the drumming is just a very small fraction of what I focus on.

I do need to focus on playing my football and what's happening on the pitch rather than off it... I want to be myself and not think about it.

For me, it's always just about playing the song and recording it and giving it what it needs as a song.

Medicine ended up being the best thing I ever did for my writing.

If you let yourself believe that you are unsure about what you're doing, then the game is fast. But if you go out there and you're confident and have an idea of what you're supposed to do, then the game slows down for you.

Making a record and being a touring artist is about cooperation between spirit, craft, emotion, and focus.

In football, it's not enough just to be amazing, but you also have to have a clear head. If you're not calm, it becomes very difficult.

I am sorry, but recording an album is just hard work; tedious, repetitive, and not very fun at all. Mixing is a bit better, but still pretty boring.

If you end up spending more time in the studio than you do on the road, that's not a good balance for me. Because I think when you're in the studio, you need to come off the road and go in the studio and that's when you're applying your best. That's when you've got the best attitude, best energy, all that stuff.

I get into a zone where I'm really in my own world when I make music.

I don't have a background in music... and I have a short attention span. If you put me in the studio every day, I'm gonna get lost.

Every time somebody asks me, 'Oh, when you mix your own music, what are you going to make?' And I don't know.

I remember so well my father's complete concentration when he went to the studio. Everything he did, every movement he made, he did with complete concentration. Then, after he had finished work, he would go to the beach or whatever, and then he would enjoy play and forget about his work.

An album takes a lot of work and energy and dedication to make.

Making records is hard work.

It could be very costly if you don't have a clear mind during a tournament.