Kacey Musgraves Quotes

I just want to make good music. That's it. That's what I care about.

If it's a good song and it fits me, that's what I'm going to do, I'm not out there trying to change the world. I'm just out there trying to sing country music the best way I can.

I love writing about things I know, and I like to be very honest in my music.

I could care less about the particular. I like to make music.

Singing your own songs is all about individual expression.

Our show doesn't rely on the typical whistles and bells, and smoke and mirrors. It relies mostly on the music.

I do not like people writing songs and then other people singing them. A lot of people don't even sing their own songs anymore. It's like producers these days have ghost producers; 'I don't produce, but I am a producer.'

David Lee Roth had the idea that if you covered a successful song, you were half way home. C'mon - Van Halen doing 'Dancing in the Streets'? It was stupid. I started feeling like I would rather bomb playing my own songs than be successful playing someone else's music.

I knew I was going to do a country album one day. But I was just trying to figure out for the life of me, what we were going to do to make it different, unique.

Making music is fantastic.

The great songs just come out. If it comes quick, just leave it that way.

To make a rock'n'roll record, technology is the least important thing.

When you find great songs, and somehow you get a spark in a little way, it can become brand new.

Making music is still what keeps a fire going on in me.

I don't work out a lead section and practice it for a day and then lay it down. I don't do that. The first time I do something I think is expressive or really cool, that's what's actually on the recording.

The main thing in making your own music is that it's an expression of someone's personality and being. That's what people want to hear, and you can't really teach that - that's just something that comes out. Teaching just hones that.

The music is the main thing and it's just as easy to write acceptable words.

I'm always writing. And, I mean, I always counsel people when they call me a musician: I really do not have the skills of a musician. I really don't think like a musician, though I love music and I perform and sing.

You have got to make new music, that is the way that I look at it anyway.

Making music and writing kind of come from the same creative place.

As long as you continue to have new songs, there's usually some new topic or something to present.

I don't know what aids creativity. All I know is that it feels natural to hold a guitar in my hands and sing.

I write the best songs I can.

I just want to play shows and write songs and make music. That's what feels good.

For me, it's always just about playing the song and recording it and giving it what it needs as a song.