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" I'm just observing. I don't ever want people to think I'm preaching at them or wearing them out. "
Kacey Musgraves
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" Look at Loretta Lynn. Look at Jeannie C. Rily singing 'Harper Valley PTA' and Tammy Wynette singing about divorce. They were ahead of their times in a lot of ways. "
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" Certain kinds of people will always have an issue with my music. But that's fine; it's OK. I don't want to be the McDonald's of music. I don't want to not turn anyone off. If you were everybody's cup of tea, you'd probably be boring. "
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" Fame freaks me out. Do you just wake up different? I don't know how to scale it back if it gets too crazy. "
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" I didn't necessarily grow up in a trailer park, but there is a brief part of that in my life. So I can make fun of it a little bit. I'm not too much of an outsider, where I'm just making fun of someone. "
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My Life
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" I write my songs and just play them, so there are not a whole lot of fireworks. As long as the music comes first, it's OK to have some fireworks. But not the other way around. "
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Play
Write
First
" A lot of times, I'm singing things that are observational and am definitely including myself. "
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Myself
Lot
Including
" I always draw from things around me that people around me have gone through... The story that could be taken really literally is not from my life exactly. But bits and pieces are, and the sentiment behind it is. "
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People
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" I'm all about small towns. I think it's a great place to grow up. "
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Great
Place
Up
" Lee Ann Womack is from near where I grew up in East Texas, so I've always looked up to her. I sang a lot of Dolly Parton as a kid and a lot of traditional western swing, like Patsy Cline and Roy Rogers. "
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Kid
" I feel like, big city or small town, you can relate to following your parents' footsteps or putting your own dreams on the back burner or vices that we get caught up in - that whole cycle. That's not just a small-town thing. That's a life thing. "
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City
Life
Parents
" I like when people have Western style, but it's throwback Seventies-ish. I like pearlsnap shirts and a bow-tie like the KFC man. "
Kacey Musgraves
Man
Throwback
Style
" When I was nine, I was singing western swing: Roy Rogers and Patsy Cline. It got me noticed because no one my age was doing it, but it made me feel inferior because none of my friends could relate to it. "
Kacey Musgraves
Feel
Me
Singing
" I do try to shop online and support people who hand-make their stuff, and because you can find stuff that nobody else has. "
Kacey Musgraves
Support
Nobody
Find
" I don't push buttons to push buttons. Throwing the rebel card out there is really cheap. "
Kacey Musgraves
Cheap
Rebel
Out
" I realize that I'm not going to be everybody's cup of tea, and that's okay. I think that's the point of music. "
Kacey Musgraves
Going
Realize
Think
" If the lyrics are something new, then maybe I want to give it a more traditional form, or the other way around, but not have all one or the other. "
Kacey Musgraves
Give
More
Want
" It's weird, because the ideas in my songs aren't controversial to me. I feel like I should be able to sing about anything. "
Kacey Musgraves
Weird
Feel
Sing
" My parents aren't crazy conservative. They're actually pretty open-minded. But my grandparents are, and where I'm from, East Texas, is the Bible Belt. "
Kacey Musgraves
Texas
Pretty
Parents
" I love vintage cowboy boots, and some days I'm into platform stilettos encrusted in jewels. It's really all over the place. "
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Days
Boots
Place
" My fans are pretty spot-on with their gifts. This girl that was super into baking had made this entire batch of cookies - there were one with a dandelion on it, one with a trailer, and some had my face. "
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Fans
Baking
Girl
" I love words. They're fun. I don't think any word can just be filler. There's no room for it. It's like a puzzle. Every song can be written a million times. How can you say it differently? "
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Think
Fun
Love
" You can't beat Freddie Mercury. He was a mad man in the best sense possible. "
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Beat
Mad
Best
" Obviously, I don't live and die by it, everything my horoscope says. But I feel like there's definitely something to it. "
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" It's hard to remember a time when I wasn't writing. "
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Remember
Time
Hard
" A lot of what gets on the radio isn't saying anything other than somebody wants to be famous and will do whatever they're told to get it. "
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Radio
Will
" Loretta Lynn was one of those ladies a long time ago that opened a lot of doors and paved the way for a lot of ballsy singer-songwriters who weren't just cute. "
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Time
Cute
Doors
" I see my fans as music lovers. I really love that. There's no age group or demographic. It's people of all ages and backgrounds. Country people and non-country people. I wanted to make music across the board. "
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Group
Love
Music
" When something comes to my brain, I don't ignore it. You never know what it's going to turn into. "
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Brain
Ignore
Know
" I'd rather have 100,000 people who really get what I'm doing and like it for what it is than a million who can take it or leave it. "
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Like
Leave
Doing
" Undeniably, I'm a country singer; I'm a country songwriter. But I feel like I make country music for people who like country music and for people who don't. "
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