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Kathy Mattea

"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."

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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."

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Donna Grant

"The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic."

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Donna Grant

"I have often heard the statement made by foreign singers, as a demonstrated fact, that the German artists are artists in feeling indeed, and serious in their devotion, but that their singing is crude."

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Donna Grant

"I think this confusion leads intellectuals and artists themselves to believe that the elite arts and humanities are a kind of higher, exalted form of human endeavor."

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Donna Grant

"Seeing how those companies operate, it didn't amount to a massive vote of confidence in their artists. There was talk of me going to Columbia after that, but nothing happened. I got disillusioned, and I pulled back."

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Donna Grant

"A record deal doesn't make you an artist; you make yourself an artist."

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Donna Grant

"Derek Trucks is a real good new artist. He's a young guy."

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Donna Grant

"For us chess players the language of artist is something natural."

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Donna Grant

"So I guess the complete lack of any new developments is what struck me. That and the fact that much of the good we had done for the artists' side of the industry with G.O.D. had been just as quickly undone by the big boys."

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Donna Grant

"I've never been able to say I've been influenced by a list of artists I like because I like thousands and thousands and I've been influenced in some way by all of them."

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Donna Grant

"I don't mind doing two or three Eagles songs and playing the drums. I'm not one of those artists who's going to sit here and deny the past."

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Kathy Mattea
"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."

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Kathy Mattea
"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."

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Kathy Mattea
"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."

Life

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Kathy Mattea
"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."

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Kathy Mattea
"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."

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Kathy Mattea
"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."

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Kathy Mattea
"Anyway, our family went into complete crisis mode. I have two older brothers, and we rallied as a family."

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Kathy Mattea
"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."

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Kathy Mattea
"A gourmet meal without a glass of wine just seems tragic to me somehow."

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Kathy Mattea
"You have to listen to what resonates within your own gut. You find your direction there. Your voice comes out."

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