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Kathy Mattea Quotes

American - Musician | June 21, 1959 -

Whenever someone leaves, the next person that gets pulled in is somebody with similar values.

Someone Values Person Next Somebody

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.

People Musicians You Come And Go Go

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.

Together Purpose Step Start Fall

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.

Family Change Marriage Me World Way

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 Daily Spiritual Practice Ball

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

Singing Voice You Back Know Way

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.

Work Time Singing Trying You Will

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.

Myself Perfection Deep Warm Hotel

And in fact, I think the more we start to worship perfection the more soul leaks out of art.

Art Soul Perfection Start Think Out

I can't even say I've begun yet, but I'm trying on the idea that there is a book in my future.

Future Book Trying Say Idea Even

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.

Life Music Art Think Reality Way

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.

Life Time Yourself People Me You

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