Kelsea Ballerini Quotes

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I just want to make the best music I can make.

I just want to make the best music I can make.
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You really do have to be different. You really do have to set yourself apart.
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It’s really humbling to be acknowledged by such established names like CMT and Billboard.
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It’s so fun to make up stories, but I find that the songs that I’m most proud of came from a real thing in my life – ‘Peter Panbeing one of those.
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I danced for 10 years. I was on a competitive hip-hop team, but then I, like, grew seven inches in one year – not really, but I grew tall and really lanky, and I lost all my coordination.
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I’ve always been a big, bold thinker and a dreamer.
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I have a picture of me with Lady Antebellum, when they released their first single and I was at CMA Fest as a fan. I’m in flower-power shorts and a headband – so not cute – and I’m fan-girling next to Hillary. I couldn’t believe I was standing next to her.
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The Grammys to me, well, that’s my peers. That’s the industry thinking what I do is good.
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My favorite festival beauty look is definitely braids and hats: a messy fishtail braid and a cute outfit, and I’m ready!
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I have a huge appreciation for music in general, but my roots are country.
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My life is truly pop country.
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I try to be a good person. I love Jesus.
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I try to be as honest as I can in writing. That’s what ends up translating and relating to people.
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I love when an artist can stand by themselves and play their guitar and hold a crowd, but I also love bells and whistles.
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People send me songs all the time that are literally no-brainer hits… but for me, I’m an artist because I’m a writer.
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I grew up loving music and being super involved in church choir and school musicals and such, but when I started writing is when I fell in love with the idea of doing it for the rest of my life.
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I used to walk around trying to do the Britney Spears growl: ‘Oh, baby, baby.’
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There’s value in being a normal person.
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Growing up, I remember thinking country music was all honky-tonks and beer and trucks – Britney Spears was my first concert.
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The greatest gift I’ve been given is being naive, because I don’t know what I can’t do. And when you don’t know what you can’t do, you think you can do everything.
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I wanted to be the girl that talks about getting a guy. I felt like that was a different approach to writing.
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I just want to be real and who I am. That’s something I’d feel comfortable with any little girl looking up to, so that’s who I try to be.
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I really want people to know I’m a songwriter.
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I’ve always been drawn to strong women in every genre, people who push the boundaries because they’re just epic.
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When I was 13, I started writing songs, and it fell into my lap all of a sudden. I wrote poems and journals, but that’s when it switched for me to songwriting. That’s when I wanted to do everything. It was like a fire all of a sudden. I started coming to Nashville and moved here when I was 15.
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I want to stay where I am. I’m stoked to be a country artist.
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Blake Lively is my style icon, and she always has rocking clothes and shoes. She keeps it really simple with hair and makeup, and I try to do the same thing. Onstage, I do a little smokier, a little more contouring, but I still always want to be an approachable and real artist, so I never try to go overboard.
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For a long time, because I’m pretty tall, I was scared to wear heels, but now I wear them all the time. I feel like I’m still discovering my stage style, but I love – well, I’m not a huge color person onstage, but I am in real life. I like short stuff, big heels, fringe, lots of fringe, sometimes sparkle, yeah!
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I love having that conversation with someone I’ve never met before who’s enjoying something that I wrote and being able to connect and share that.
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I love Taylor Swift, and I’ve always been such a fan of her.
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Honestly, I was a fan before I got the opportunity to be an artist. I was the kind of fan who would stand in line or post a cover video.
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I like making people feel pretty.
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Music videos, to me, are like an extension of a song.
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My favorite songwriting trick is writing something like ‘XO.’ In my brain, I thought, ‘This is probably going to be a love song. How can I change that and find ways to twist that.’ As a songwriter, it’s your job for the song to take twists and turns that people don’t expect.
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I’m in this wave with Maddie & Tae and RaeLynn and Mickey Guyton and Cam. We’re all kind of finding our niches and becoming successful. I think that it’s just been really fun to be with them and do this all together.
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I would love to do a duet with Gavin Degraw. Or Ed Sheeran.
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I listen to everything. I sing country music, but I listen to different stuff.
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My favorite thing ever is walking into a room and there’s like, shoes and dresses and sparkles in the room. It’s a good time.
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It wasn’t supposed to work – being a new artist, a female artist, an artist on an independent. That’s what made it so much sweeter when we hit No. 1.
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My biggest dream is to headline an arena tour.
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In my opinion, it’s all about the song and the performance, not the gender.
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As a young woman, I just think there’s something really confident and empowering about being able to flirt back.
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I grew up on a farm in eastern Tennessee with a very southern lifestyle, so my roots are super country and southern, but my first concert was Britney Spears. I think that you can hear both of those influences in my music.
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It took a while to learn to eat healthy on road. It’s really hard. Really, really hard. But on the bus, I can use the stovetop in the morning to make a veggie scramble. And have lots and lots and lots of coffee. I try to have protein for dinner so I have energy for the show.
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I’m a huge fan of the Chainsmokers – like, huge. Like, I would love to collaborate with them.
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The artists that I relate to and love the most are the ones where I can listen to the record, and I can know them better, and for me, that’s writing it.
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Me and my mom made a deal that if something would happen to help me get my start in music, I could get out of college.
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I think that every time a country artist steps outside of the country boundary, it just brings more ears to us.
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I grew up loving music, like, loving it. I was involved in church choir, leading worship and all the choirs in my school – even glee club.
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I’m so weird and quirky, and painfully awkward sometimes.
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I am a fan before I am an artist. I was that twelve year old girl that looked up to Taylor Swift. I get what that role is as a fan. I think that because I know that, I’m really careful and intentional about what I say and what I put out. I want to be that role for anyone who wants me to be that.
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Hillary Scott from Lady Antebellum is like my big sister.
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It’s really cool when, in every genre of music, you can listen to a song and know what era it was from.
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When I was 12, I was going through an awkward time. Writing music helped me find my voice and express the things I was feeling.
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‘Peter Pan,’ I think, was a game-changer. That was the first song that really had some heartbeat to it… I think that’s the song that got people’s attention.
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There are certain days I will get home, and something will pop up on my Twitter, and I will just cry about it. I get so overwhelmed that I get to do what I do.
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Getting to do shows with Lady Antebellum, Keith Urban, and Sam Hunt is just awesome. It’s so inspiring because I grew up such fans of Lady A and Keith, and to be able to sing my songs on the same stage as them and then stand side stage and watch them is just a really special thing.
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Being a songwriter is really the base of being an artist, for me.
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I’ve gotten to be part of a lot of incredible tours and have learned so much from the people I’ve had the opportunity to open for.
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I remember telling myself when I got to start having artist opportunities, ‘Let yourself be a fan, because you are. The minute that you walk in a room with Carrie Underwood, and you’re too cool to freak out, you need to check yourself.’ I just let myself be a fan.
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I always thought it was a goat that kicked me over the fence. My mama told me the other day it was a cow. Now I’m sort of scared of both.
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I write everything. It’s my favorite part of what I do. And lyrics are my favorite thing.
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I was writing country songs, but I wasn’t listening to country yet. I grew up on a farm in East Tennessee, so my roots are country, you know? But I didn’t know where those songs came from or where they fit.
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Always wash your face before you go to bedskin care is key.
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I really like food. Honestly, anytime I have time off, I binge-watch Netflix and eat chicken tenders. That’s my guilty pleasure. Separate or together!
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I love pop music. I listen to it; I think you can hear it in my songwriting and my album. I’d definitely say it’s country-pop music, but it’s country first.
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I feel like it’s been so crazy to get to open for people like Rascal Flatts, Lady A, Billy Currington.
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I’m not super traditional at all.
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I want to be a good person first and a good artist second.
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I see little girls at my meet-and-greets who are like, ‘Kelsea! It’s my first concert and I came to see you.’ And I’m thinking, ‘I don’t want to post anything online that your mom would be mad at me for, because you’re important to me.’
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As a fan, I connect with realness. Whether it’s strong or vulnerable, if it’s real, I can connect with it.
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I was this little blond girl with a guitar case bigger than me – it was pink and sparkly at the time. But I always took myself seriously, and I think that people took that seriously. I would tell them about my goal list, and they listened. I was like, ‘I want to be the one that swings the pendulum.’
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It’s been really cool to me to watch someone like Sam Hunt, whose lyrics and roots are in country but you can hear that he listens to Drake and Justin Timberlake – and that’s OK. It allows songwriters to be more honest because it’s like, ‘This is who I’m listening to.’
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I think that, as artists, all we can do is be who we are. I think that if we do that, then we’re automatically not anyone else.
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I’ve always been drawn to the message of ‘Be yourself. Love yourself.’ I need to be reminded of that all time.
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When Florida Georgia Line and Nelly put out the ‘Cruiseremix, it brought so many more people to country music.
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Sometimes, if I really just need to unwind and kind of watch something that isn’t gonna stress me out or have drama in it, I watch ‘Spongebob.’
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The thing that’s been most important to me is being interactive with people that are listening to my music.
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‘The First Time‘ is a song that I wrote by myself on my front porch, in real-time, as that situation was happening to me.
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I did ballet, jazz, and all that, but I think hip-hop is really where I learned rhythm and groove, which has helped me in music.
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