Alison Krauss Quotes

I'm not a massive artist by any stretch of the imagination. Yes, I've been in papers and magazines, but you never have any idea if anyone actually reads it or pays any attention.

I had hardly begun to read I asked how can you ever be sure that what you write is really any good at all and he said you can't you can't you can never be sure you die without knowing whether anything you wrote was any good if you have to be sure don't write

You're happy that people are seeing your work. As for the critics, it really hurts when they knock you.

To work for months and months and months, you kind of spill blood and give your heart and soul to something, and then you just sort of let it out into the universe and hope that people like it.

You never make movies for Oscars.

Greatness is not guarding yourself from the people; greatness is being accepted by the people.

The Pulitzer has nothing to do with me; it's more about people's perceptions of me, whatever they may be. I'm not being humble - I honestly do not and cannot think about that. It's a lovely piece of crystal on my bookcase, but that's all it is to me.

Every man, and for stronger reasons, every artist, wants to be recognized. So do I.

It's like these songs are your babies and you don't want anybody to think your babies are ugly! You never really know until you throw it out there if it's gonna take. And that is a really scary and vulnerable place to be, so having those songs be embraced is the best feeling in the world. That's been our dream our whole lives.

I don't know what 'famous' is, really.

Most painters want recognition, especially by their peers. I achieved that a long time ago with TV. I don't need any more.

Anytime I make a movie, I really have absolutely no idea how it's going to go over. I've had the whole range of different kinds of reactions.

Glorious bouquets and storms of applause are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys.

No person writes to win awards.

I've always been incredibly lucky that the music that I make, other people like it.

We wrote what sounded good to us and hoped it would find a home.

Creative things have to sell to get acknowledged as such.

With all of my work, it always takes a while for people to get it.

My take on it, like a filmmaker or actor, is if you have much more colors within your creation, eventually people will appreciate what you're doing, and the other stuff is secondary, like critiques or even awards or anything else, as long as people enjoy it.

It's really great if people actually want to see something that you've made and you've put a lot of effort into. And that doesn't always happen, and there's not always a rhyme or reason.

I'm still always surprised that anyone might be interested in my work or me.

For artists, we're always looking for approval. We're putting our artwork out there and saying, 'What do you think?'

Each album you make, each body of music, you just never know how the world's going to relate to it.

Sometimes I even tell my relatives and my friends that I get a lot of love from the fans, and I'm not sure if it's deserved.

It's nice to be recognized in the street.