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" I got offered publishing deals to write country music, but it was not what I wanted to do. "
Natalie Prass
Music
Write
Country Music
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" I'm definitely someone who's really picky about who I work with and how I want things to go, because I have a high standard of integrity for my music. I want it to be genuine. "
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" Women are against women, and men are against women. Like, women have to rise above so much to get ahead. I feel guilty that sometimes I hate being a woman. I hate it because there's so much weight on your shoulders at all times. Maybe I'm just really sensitive. "
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" When I made dog sweaters, as goofy as that was, I made this product, and people could buy it, and I got money immediately. Music was just this ethereal land of maybe, a lot of waiting and waiting. You live your life around hoping you get a five-thousand-dollar royalty check that usually doesn't come. "
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" I do always write from a personal place. "
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" I've always been in this weird indie world, and for a long time, I felt that it was not okay to be girly in that world. "
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Long
Long Time
" I blindly loved music and never once questioned if I was weird or not. I didn't care. Still don't! "
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Weird
Still
" That's what's so wonderful about collaborating: your idea can explode and become something else. "
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" I love how controversial pink is. Men still feel uncomfortable wearing pink. It's ridiculous. "
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Feel
Men
" I don't think I'm the most talented musician or the best singer, but I work really, really hard. "
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Singer
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" After graduating college in 2010, I got to work - writing and co-writing all the time, playing and touring in bands, playing for other people's bands, working in coffee shops all over town. "
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College
People
Work
" I do what I want to do instead of what other people think I should do, and I'm kind of stubborn that way. "
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" Growing up, I had a natural love for women like Diana Ross, Mary Wells, Ella Fitzgerald. Then I got into Dionne Warwick, Nina Simone, and Patsy Cline. "
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Growing Up
Women
Growing
" Break-up albums are the best kind. "
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Break-Up
Kind
Best
" I've struggled with self-esteem and depression, like most singer-songwriters. I listen to my EPs on Bandcamp, and I can just hear the pain and the self-esteem struggle in my voice. "
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Struggle
Pain
I Can
" I wasn't taken seriously being the only girl playing in band growing up. "
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Growing
Growing Up
Seriously
" Gospel talks about life's struggles, but you always feel like it recognizes these struggles and that you can overcome them. "
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Overcome
Life
Feel
" I love wearing dresses, but more simplistic, classic-looking dresses. "
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Wearing
Dresses
I Love
" I'm really into the 'classic' thing - the craft of writing something that will last, that won't die by next year. "
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Year
Writing
Will
" I was poor. I struggled big time, living hand to mouth so I could be the kind of artist I want to be. "
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Mouth
Living
Kind
" There are a lot more variables with festivals than just playing in a venue. "
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Festivals
Just
" My kind of retro-sounding songs, or whatever you want to call them, aren't for everybody. "
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Songs
Want
Whatever
" Music is all I've ever done. "
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Music
Done
Ever
" I've always been very shy. Now I don't care anymore. "
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Always
Shy
Now
" Stevie Wonder is obviously the master at political music that's for everybody, that's still joyful. "
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Joyful
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" I'm pretty picky about what I do and who I work with, for better or for worse. "
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Work
Worse
Who
" I get kind of nervous in crowds, so a musical festival would never be something I would go to, unless I was playing. "
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Nervous
Go
Playing
" I'm not really a trend person. "
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Trend
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" We still have so far to go as a country. People don't like to listen to women or take orders from them. I feel that a lot as a woman playing music. "
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People
Feel
" I had to do so much self-searching and self-work and learning how to navigate in a world that seemed very mean. "
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