Top 44 Lari White Quotes

I love a beautiful, soaring, singable melody. But what really draws me to a song, at the end of the day, is the words.

I studied jazz in college. I studied music history, and I have a degree in music engineering.

Music does communicate across language and racial and religious and philosophical barriers. It is one of the most distilled forms of human emotions.

The most rewarding experience as a musician is to know that I moved people personally.

It used to be that labels would spend two or three or four albums developing a new artist before they threw in the towel and moved on, which kind of gave the artist an opportunity to grow.

I was not ready fresh out of high school to hit the streets of Nashville.

There’s nothing better about being a musician than live performing.

I kept getting these little messages through friends: ‘Chuck Cannon thinks you are really cute.’ And, ‘Would you go out with him?’ It was just like high school. It was really funny.

I think in order to find your audience and let them get to know you, you have to introduce yourself a little at a time.

I’ve gone gold. I’m very excited.

My career has been two steps forward and three steps back.

I think I’m the last person on the planet to use the internet, but I’m re-engaging my fans through Facebook and Twitter and Instagram, doing the whole social media scene.

If there’s any profit to be had in Nashville-Underground, it’s very long term. We’re not about money, which gives us an edge over the labels.

If things are just gliding along easily and there’s no real obstacles or hurdles, those typically aren’t my most productive times, personally or professionally.

Looking back, I wonder where my head was at on some of the last few albums, and I know I was just doing what I thought I needed to at the time.

I have had such a satisfying career; I’ve gotten to do so many amazing things as an artist.

I’d spent a year and a half without a record deal and had been doing a lot of soul-searching, a lot of self-examination and a lot of experimentation in other musical forms.

I really felt like it was a dangerous trap to get into, having had such great success with ‘Wishes,’ it just wasn’t in my blood not to play it safe and just do that again.

I really wanted a No. 1 single from my first album, but I would not do anything different. It was real and honest and I didn’t pretend anything.

As a little girl, I remember thinking how great it was going to be, to be a musician when I grew up, how I was going make a jazz album, then a country album, then a rock album.

I feel so fortunate I was able to grow up in such a warm, loving, safe, beautiful community that I still call home.

I would love to go to England, Europe and especially Australia. I have a real fantasy about playing in Australia; I would love to get over there.

That’s the ideal to me – to make music that is well-crafted and sophisticated technically, but has a soul and a heart that touches a lot of people.

Unfortunately – as I have experienced first-hand, as many artists have – there’s a gaping hole between platinum and non-existent. There’s no in-between.

Anytime you get attention for something, you want to keep doing it.

Now that I’m married it’s hard to be away from my husband, the house, my dog. But I really love being on the road.

I’m not interested in artistic records for the sake of making artistic records where they’re so cool no one listens to them.

I could never really see myself being a pop artist.

I’m not a mainstream country artist, and I never will be.

I never thought I’d be able to say 25 years about anything, really, much less be a recording artist for 25 years.

One of the things I liked so much about the women artists I saw in Nashville was that they were appreciated for their music and their talent, not because they were wearing skimpy outfits and showing a lot of skin.

I found when I started getting serious about writing music, that my writing was country songs. It was basically country subject matter, country melodies and simple chord changes.

I encountered on a regular basis rude comments and sexual innuendo and cat calls and overt sexual propositions in professional settings.

Leaving your old record label doesn’t have to be a stall in your career. It’s like new life being breathed into it.

It’s a great thing not trying to make music for a label but just for the love of music again.

Of course, I love the arenas; there’s a great deal of energy and excitement playing those kind of shows. But there’s something that’s very intimate and very special about a small venue, where you really feel like you’re almost getting to know everyone in the audience.

They love soul music in the U.K.

The biggest impact that acting and theater had was, of course, stage presence, but it also had a big impact on my writing.

I studied classical piano from the time I was 4 through my first year of college.

Music is like church to me. It’s as spiritual a connection as I just about ever make.

Getting up in front of an audience is my biggest motivation.

I definitely would have liked to stay at RCA and have had that relationship, and had them grow with me and support that.

I want to be able to take singles, serve them up to radio on a silver platter and just have them smoke – just obvious great-sounding, great-feeling radio singles.

It’s not an uncommon event for artists and labels to part ways – Patty Loveless, Vince Gill both did – and it often happens for the better.