Quotes by Kathy Mattea - Page 1

Dance like nobody's watching.
Kathy Mattea / Musical Artist
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An eye for an eye til everyone is blind.
Kathy Mattea / Musical Artist
Blind
Eye
Revenge
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Love travels the miles upon the wings of Angels.
Kathy Mattea / Musical Artist
Angel
Miles
Wings
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Standing knee deep in a river and dying of thirst.
Kathy Mattea / Musical Artist
Dying
Knees
Rivers
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Tonight I feel like all of creation is asking us to dance.
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Asking
Dancing
Tonight
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A gourmet meal without a glass of wine just seems tragic to me somehow.
Kathy Mattea / Musical Artist
Glasses
Gourmet
Seems
Tragic
Wine
Glass
Meal
Somehow
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You've got to dance like nobody's watching, and love like it's never going to hurt.
Kathy Mattea / Musical Artist
Happiness
Love
Life
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And in fact, I think the more we start to worship perfection the more soul leaks out of art.
Kathy Mattea / Musical Artist
Art
Leaks
Perfection
Thinking
Worship
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You know, your speaking voice comes back, but your singing voice you use in a different way.
Kathy Mattea / Musical Artist
Singing
Talking
Voice
Singing Voice
Speaking
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There's nothing more fun than sitting in a circle playing with people who are really into it.
Kathy Mattea / Musical Artist
Sitting
Circle
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Whenever someone leaves, the next person that gets pulled in is somebody with similar values.
Kathy Mattea / Musical Artist
Leaves
Pulled
Similar
Whenever
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I can't even say I've begun yet, but I'm trying on the idea that there is a book in my future.
Kathy Mattea / Musical Artist
Book
Ideas
Trying
Begun
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Anyway, our family went into complete crisis mode. I have two older brothers, and we rallied as a family.
Kathy Mattea / Musical Artist
Crisis
Anyway
Brothers
Complete
Mode
Older Brothers
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You have to listen to what resonates within your own gut. You find your direction there. Your voice comes out.
Kathy Mattea / Musical Artist
Guts
Voice
Direction
Gut
Resonates
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I want to savor the aging process. As you get older, you trade your innocence for wisdom and the wisdom is your reward.
Kathy Mattea / Musical Artist
Innocence
Rewards
Want
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We rob ourselves of so much by focusing on the wrong stuff. And the ability to get into the moment and deal with what is, that's the real opportunity.
Kathy Mattea / Musical Artist
Focusing
Rob
Real Opportunity
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I don't live in as much fear as I used to. I'm not afraid of the music business. Life is too damn short. I know what's important, and the tasks are very clear.
Kathy Mattea / Musical Artist
Life
Clear
Damn
Inspire
Music Business
Umpires
Life Business Music
Afraid
Short
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That's the great paradox of living on this earth, that in the midst of great pain you can have great joy as well. If we didn't have those things we'd just be numb.
Kathy Mattea / Musical Artist
Earth
Great Joy
Joy
Midst
Numb
Pain
Paradox
Just Be
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I really think that's what music and art is about. It's another way to connect to the divine. It's a real pure way of touching that deeper reality beneath our life.
Kathy Mattea / Musical Artist
Another Way
Deeper
Divine
Pure
Life Art Music
Beneath
Connect
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You have to write badly to write at all. If it's crappy, I will rewrite it later. But it will be mine. You can hear the resonance of an artist who goes into herself.
Kathy Mattea / Musical Artist
Artist
Resonance
Writing
Badly
Crappy
Hear
Herself
Mine
Rewrite
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When you keep the caliber of musicians very high in the band, people are going to come and go. Some of them will be people who have to try various things, it's natural.
Kathy Mattea / Musical Artist
Caliber
Keep People Will
People Will Try
Come And Go
Musicians
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If you say that you're all about a certain something, and look back and see that the choices that you've made don't reflect that, then there's something for you to look at.
Kathy Mattea / Musical Artist
Choices
Looks
Made
Reflect
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I jump into the process, and the record begins to gel at some point. Then I begin to get a picture of where I'm going. But it's not always something I know on the front-end.
Kathy Mattea / Musical Artist
Begin
Picture
Gel
Jump
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Chocolate's okay, but I prefer a really intense fruit taste. You know when a peach is absolutely perfect... it's sublime. I'd like to capture that and then use it in a dessert.
Kathy Mattea / Musical Artist
Capture
Chocolate
Dessert
Fruit
Intense
Okay
Perfect
Sublime
Taste
Absolutely
Prefer
Peach
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Your voice is vibrant for only a certain part of your life. There are some records I've always wanted to make, and I don't know if I want to waste this time beating on the door of the charts.
Kathy Mattea / Musical Artist
Records
Waste
Life Time Always
Beating
Charts
Door
Vibrant
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I guess the biggest thing is that I committed to a spiritual center before I do anything else. And I put some daily things in my life into practice and I maintain that, to make sure that I don't drop the ball.
Kathy Mattea / Musical Artist
Balls
Committed
Practice
Spiritual
Life Practice My Life
Anything Else
Ball
Biggest
Biggest Thing
Center
Daily
Drop
Life Daily My Life
Guess
Maintain
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So all of these things are going on that make you wake up and realize you are a mortal person. You can choose to cruise through your life, but if you do, you're going to open your eyes at some point, and it's gone.
Kathy Mattea / Musical Artist
Cruise
Eye
Gone
Wake Up
Life Eyes Your
Mortal
Open Your Eyes
Wake
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What is hard to remember when you're in the middle of it is that when you get through to the other side, you always walk away with a gift. If you can stand in there and not walk away from it, you get transformed by it.
Kathy Mattea / Musical Artist
Remember When
Transformed
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You find yourself in this place where you really get to find out what you're made of, and what I found was that when I was at my time of greatest need, there were people who appeared in my life, and helped me through it.
Kathy Mattea / Musical Artist
My Time
Life Time Me
Life Time Yourself
Appeared
Helped
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Or if I have my head in the results, I can't work with what I have, because I'm trying to force something to happen. And with singing, any time you force it, you tighten up. If you tighten up, you're screwed, nothing will work.
Kathy Mattea / Musical Artist
Force
Results
Singing
Trying
Work Time Nothing
Screwed
Tighten
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So I had to just kind of go back to the hotel, take a shower, sit quiet, dig down deep, warm up, and allow myself to move into some kind of zone. And then I remembered that a lot of my favorite musical moments are not about perfection.
Kathy Mattea / Musical Artist
Hotel
Moments
Musical
Quiet
Remembered
Warm
Zone
Allow
Dig
Just Kind
Shower
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I've come to understand my role. On some level, I provide the context for them to shine. I also know my role is the steward of the songs, and the center point, the artist that the stuff all revolves around. But I really try to honor that.
Kathy Mattea / Musical Artist
Artist
Honor
Shining
Song
Center
Context
Provide
Revolves
Role
Shine
Steward
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So I really did stop and change what I saw I was about, and really try to put that principle into play as the center of everything - my friendships, my marriage, my career, my family, my way of being in the world. And that changed everything for me.
Kathy Mattea / Musical Artist
Careers
Play
Trying
Center
Friendships
Principle
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Can you blame them? We have to filter so much information these days. But it does make it difficult for an artist. I'm 46 years old now. I've had a lot of life experience and my voice has changed. People who expect the same old me are bound to be disappointed.
Kathy Mattea / Musical Artist
Blame
Disappointed
Life Experience
Life Experience Me
Filter
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I would step into a place of being lined up with a sense of purpose and my inner compass, and everything was going in the same direction. Then I'd get lazy and get off the track. And then things would start to fall apart, and I'd back up and get it together again.
Kathy Mattea / Musical Artist
Compass
Fall
Lazy
Together Again
Track
Apart
Back Up
Direction
Inner
Lined
Same Direction
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Sally Barris has a voice like sparkling crystal. You could have knocked me over with a feather the first time I heard her. Her writing is from a deep, yet innocent, place and her point of view is just a bit off center. I am excited for her, she is standing at the beginning of her journey in this town, with all of it ahead of her. It reminds me of the first time I heard Beth Nielson-Chapman or Nanci Griffith. It's going to be fun to watch.
Kathy Mattea / Musical Artist
Journey
Fun
Writing
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There is a string attached to Maia Sharp's voice. And when she sings, you find that the other end is attached to your gut. Her voice is lush and sensual and the emotions she articulates resonate with the small feelings we have that sometimes are hard to face..there is an edge to her songs, but also a softness...she is lyrical and conversational at the same time. Her CD was the only one in my machine for a month. Her work inspires me to dig deeper.
Kathy Mattea / Musical Artist
Cds
Song
Voice
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