Rachel Platten Quotes

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There are a lot of people who give you the message that maybe you are not good enough, and the best thing you can do for yourself is to block out all of that noise.

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I do a lot of visualisations and meditation and a lot of hippie stuff.

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No matter what, I still was gonna make music, even if it was on a small scale. Even if it was just for me.

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I’m so grateful that anyone has connected with my songs, let alone millions of people.

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I learned a lot from playing those late-night, 1-to-4 A.M. gigs with my band, and playing when no one was listening.

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Food-wise, oh man, I tend to really indulge on vacation because a lot of my friends are incredible chefs. One friend makes an eggplant parmesan that is heavenly and melts in your mouth, and another makes a chocolate pudding that I can’t resist.

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I played cover gigs and traveled the country in my mom’s old car, and my drummer and I set up a fake email and sent it out to agents. We pretended to be our own agent.

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I’m a closet outdoorsy athletic enthusiast, and I would love to do a rafting and hiking trip someday and maybe sleep in a treehouse and bathe in a chilly winding river.

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I cannot believe that I get a tour bus. I’ve been traveling in a van for 15 years. I used to look at people who were on buses and be like, ‘Whoa, man, some day.’

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I love helping friends, and I like to think I am a good listener and supportive. I’m also just kind of nosy, so it would satisfy my need to know other people’s stories.

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I have always loved music. My mom used to sing with my sister and I when I was younger, and I was in choirs and loved to perform, but when I was in college, I went on a study abroad to Trinidad, and while I was there, I sang backup at my first concert.

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I had my first concert in front of 80,000 people at the International Soca Monarch Finals.

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I work extremely hard to stay positive and happy. But I get sad and anxious, too, just like everyone.

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I have a song about being in love. I have a song about being supportive. There’s inspiring ones, and there’s some that show a little bit more fun and daring. It really is a range of who I am.

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I think you find universal truth when you get really honest with yourself and you can reach people. If you go deep enough, you have that core feeling, and that feeling can transcend the details of your experience.

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I’ve been doing this career for a really long time, but there was not a lot of reason, at the time when I wrote ‘Fight Song,’ to believe that I should keep going.

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Though I played classical piano since age 5 and sang in a cappella groups, being an artist didn’t seem like something I was talented enough to do full time. So I kind of buried that dream.

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I like structure, cool, hip songs, and fun, hooky music.

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Andy Grammer is probably the closest friend I have in the music industry, so touring with him was just incredible. He’s such a soulful, kind guy, and he gives great advice. And he also scares me a lot. He does a lot of pranks.

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‘Stand By You’ is about sticking by the person you love not only when things are easy, but being there for them during trials and letting them know they aren’t alone.

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I learned that I truly am a fighter and that I cannot give up.

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When I wrote ‘Fight Song,’ I was in a particular low point. I needed to remind myself to not give up, that I still believed in myself and that I still had fight left.

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I played piano growing up. I played classical piano since I was 5, and I sang in choirs, and I sang in plays and musicals.

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There’s a joy I think people feel from… my performance.

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I feel crazy that me sticking with my dreams actually worked. It’s wild and incredible.

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The adventurer in me would love to visit Patagonia, Chile.

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Even if I’m making music for people for $20 a night, at least I’m making music.

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I can beatbox. Well, sort of. I have one beat that I can do, but people get fooled.

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I was a political science major in college and dreamed of being a diplomat.

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I used to visit London when I was younger with my family. I feel very close to the city.

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I got a little bit lost in the writing process: like, that moment in the ‘Fight Song’ music video where I’m throwing the crumpled paper on the bed, that was really true life. I was filling journals with different possibilities of lyrics for the first verse. And none of them felt right.

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I refuse to dress ‘hot‘ for Halloween, ’cause I always have to have makeup and hair and look cute for my job. So on Halloween, I either go gory or weird or funny.

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I’m one of those people at the airport holding a pillow like a little kid.

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I wish I’d gone to music school or just started playing in bands sooner.

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Even if the songs are at times painful – ’cause some of the songs are not all roses and balloons; some of them dig into deep things that I’ve been going through – there’s a joy that I think people feel from my music and, hopefully, from my performance because I am so in love with doing what I do.

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It didn’t scare me to be vulnerable because I think that’s when you get something great.

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I’ve always sung in choirs and acapella groups, but when I was in college, I finally started writing songs and playing with a band, and that ignited a desire to do it full time and pour everything I had into it.

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Music truly heals, and I am so grateful to have learned that through Musicians on Call.

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I used to imagine working as a White House staffer some day, so it was pretty amazing to be there… realizing another dream.

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My mom is a therapist, and my dad has a doctorate in psychology, and growing up, I felt ‘very understood.’

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