Kathy Mattea Quotes

• A gourmet meal without a glass of wine just seems tragic to me somehow.

  Kathy Mattea

  Wine, Glasses, Gourmet

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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

  Eye, Wake Up, Gone

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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

  Voice, Guts

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• Standing knee deep in a river and dying of thirst.

  Kathy Mattea

  Rivers, Dying, Knees

  Song: Standing Knee Deep in a River

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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

  Art, Thinking, Perfection

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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

  Want, Rewards, Innocence

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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

  Song, Artist, Shining

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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

  Book, Ideas, Trying

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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

  Fun, Writing, Journey

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• An eye for an eye til everyone is blind.

  Kathy Mattea

  Revenge, Eye, Blind

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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

  Song, Cds, Voice

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• Dance like nobody's watching.

  Kathy Mattea

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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

  Perfect, Chocolate, Sublime

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• You've got to dance like nobody's watching, and love like it's never going to hurt.

  Kathy Mattea

  Love, Life, Happiness

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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

  Life, Umpires, Inspire

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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

  Singing, Trying, Results

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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

  Play, Careers, Trying

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• You know, your speaking voice comes back, but your singing voice you use in a different way.

  Kathy Mattea

  Talking, Voice, Singing

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• Love travels the miles upon the wings of Angels.

  Kathy Mattea

  Angel, Wings, Miles

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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

  Choices, Looks, Made

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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

  Writing, Artist, Resonance

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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

  Fall, Together Again, Track

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• Tonight I feel like all of creation is asking us to dance.

  Kathy Mattea

  Dancing, Asking, Tonight

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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

  Spiritual, Practice, Balls

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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

  Pain, Joy, Earth

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