Natalie Prass Professions : Musician Browse All Authors Top 26 quotes by Natalie Prass There are a lot more variables with festivals than just playing in a venue. Natalie Prass playing more just festivals 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. Natalie Prass woman women hate men If you want to make something of yourself, you have to just do it relentlessly. Natalie Prass yourself something you want When you're that age - that middle-school age, early high school - you're changing. You're going crazy. So I put all of my energy into pretending I was someone else, battling and screaming and all that stuff - casting spells and getting into a whole fantasy world. It was really healthy for me. Natalie Prass me you crazy age Nashville has pushed me to improve constantly as few other places could, and I'm grateful for that. Natalie Prass improve places me grateful 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. Natalie Prass someone music work integrity 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. Natalie Prass coffee work time people I don't think I'm the most talented musician or the best singer, but I work really, really hard. Natalie Prass best think hard work My dad gave me the 'Introducing Dionne Warwick' album when I was, like, 14. It was the first time I'd heard Burt Bacharach's songwriting and her voice, and it rocked my world. She's such a great singer and communicator. It really helped me shape my own style. Natalie Prass great me style time I'm really into the 'classic' thing - the craft of writing something that will last, that won't die by next year. Natalie Prass die will classic writing 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. Natalie Prass music money waiting life I had a fairy shrine in my room, and I went to fairy LARPing camp, and I played Dungeons and Dragons in the woods. Natalie Prass room woods dragons fairy Audrey Hepburn is a huge influence on my style. She's classy, confident, and simplistic. She's a tomboy and also super feminine. Natalie Prass classy confident style influence I love wearing dresses, but more simplistic, classic-looking dresses. Natalie Prass wearing more dresses love My dad had his own business and was extremely busy, but on a very rare occasion, he would play guitar and sing a bit. I was always fascinated by it. I wrote my first song in first grade because my dad was making songs up during those special moments, and it seemed like a fun thing to try myself. Natalie Prass myself guitar business song I used to come home and play piano all day by ear and make songs up or figure out my favourite Elvis songs. I'd make up games by blindfolding myself and singing the harmony to whatever notes I'd play. Natalie Prass day myself singing home I blindly loved music and never once questioned if I was weird or not. I didn't care. Still don't! Natalie Prass weird loved music care 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. Natalie Prass like women growing-up love Music is all I've ever done. Natalie Prass ever music done I come from the most normal family. I've always been the oddball. Natalie Prass come always normal family Similar Authors Adam Jones musician Izzy Stradlin musician Bon Scott musician Brad Delp musician Brad Delson musician Brian Eno musician All Authors
