Best Kacey Musgraves Quotes & Sayings

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. — Kacey Musgraves

Really connecting with someone and maybe opening their mind a little bit, is such a cool thing to be able to do through music. — Kacey Musgraves

Too many people focus on writing what they think they should write, what should be in a song, what radio would want. — Kacey Musgraves

I don't push buttons to push buttons. Throwing the rebel card out there is really cheap. — Kacey Musgraves

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

I'm really proud to be a woman representing Country music — Kacey Musgraves

Just like dust, we settle in this town. — Kacey Musgraves

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. — Kacey Musgraves

The idea of massive amounts of fame-having my face on Walgreens end-caps and pizza boxes-I don't fantasize about that. I'm happy with just being a songwriter. I'd rather have smaller numbers [of fans] that are really into what I'm doing than a massive amount of people that don't really know what I'm about. — Kacey Musgraves

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. — Kacey Musgraves

I'm a really huge John Prine fan; I love his clever conversationalist songs. — Kacey Musgraves

You can't beat Freddie Mercury. He was a mad man in the best sense possible. — Kacey Musgraves

Obviously I've always loved singing and performing, but I fell in love with songwriting and then I enjoyed doing that for other people and getting coached. But then I kind of stumbled into the right group of people that really started to create some unique music for me and what I wanted to say, so then it made me want to be an artist. — Kacey Musgraves

When I started out, I wanted to be the kind of artist who could play the CMA Music Festival and then turn around and play Bonnaroo, and I've managed to do both. — Kacey Musgraves

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. — Kacey Musgraves

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. — Kacey Musgraves

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. — Kacey Musgraves

Say what you think / Love who you love. — Kacey Musgraves

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

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

I wrote my first song when I was nine, and it was called 'Notice Me'. My Mom still has the piece of paper around somewhere, but I can't even imagine how terrible it is. — Kacey Musgraves

It's hard to remember a time when I wasn't writing. — Kacey Musgraves

In the beginning, I wrote OK songs, but they didn't have a unique perspective. — Kacey Musgraves

I wouldn't ever do a radio edit because I feel like it would totally go against the point of 'Follow Your Arrow.' I just think you're going to like it or not like it. — Kacey Musgraves

I had a blast on tour with Little Big Town. We got to play some beautiful rooms around the country - some really amazing old theaters. And it was just cool to see a band that's been together for so long. — Kacey Musgraves

A great song will be great forever - it's timeless and classic in that way. — Kacey Musgraves

My parents have always had a great sense of humor. And I really appreciate good humor in songs, witty lyrics that sneak up on you and then you listen again, and say: 'That's so funny.' John Prine's songs have always had this really witty tone. — Kacey Musgraves

I drink to feel / I smoke to breathe / Just look what love / Has done to me — Kacey Musgraves

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. — Kacey Musgraves

When something comes to my brain, I don't ignore it. You never know what it's going to turn into. — Kacey Musgraves

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. — Kacey Musgraves

I would love to go to India. And also someday, I want to have a family. That's my bucket-list. — Kacey Musgraves