Alison Krauss
Alison Krauss
Alison Maria Kraussis an American bluegrass-country singer and musician. She entered the music industry at an early age, winning local contests by the age of ten and recording for the first time at fourteen. She signed with Rounder Records in 1985 and released her first solo album in 1987. She was invited to join the band with which she still performs, Alison Krauss and Union Station, and later released her first album with them as a group in 1989...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCountry Singer
Date of Birth23 July 1971
CityChampaign, IL
CountryUnited States of America
I still think of myself as from Illinois.
I think you translate emotion better when you take your hands off.
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.
I think that people respond to honesty in music, so I only choose songs that are the truth for me.
I don't go there much. You're thrilled that people would recognize what you're doing in such a grand kind of way. But, just like you don't know if anybody's really going to like what you're doing when you put a record out or if anybody's going to pay attention to it, you can't really go there.
You say it best, when you say nothing at all.
Oh Mr. Webster could never define what's being said between your heart and mine.
It sounded like a drag...so we recorded it.
I'm much better at fixing or changing a melody to suit me than I would a lyric. But for me, everything is lyric. It has to be true for me to say it.
There are so many great songs yet to sing.
Some things feel really good to sing: there's a physical aspect, but there's more to it - a deeper place you go to.
Growing up I used to love bands like Free and ELO and the Rolling Stones. When Robert Plant got in touch it made perfect sense to me.
Whenever I've chosen a song because it's clever, it's always turned out to be a mistake.
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.