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I like to make people think a little bit. Kacey Musgraves

People Think Bit Like Make Little Little Bit

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. Kacey Musgraves

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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

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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 did tennis for a while, and I was actually on the volleyball team for a minute. Kacey Musgraves

Minute Tennis Volleyball Did While Team Actually

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. Kacey Musgraves

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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

Funny Good Great You Sense Of Humor Humor Parents Sense Lyrics Say John Had Songs Great Sense Always Witty Sneak Up Listen Again Then Really Tone Appreciate

It feels like a game, this work I do. It is totally heartfelt, and I love the sticky terrain, the straight-up cartoons, how the irrepressible and icky rise to the surface. But I am not just trying to call forth bugaboos and demons for the sake of it, for fun. Kara Walker

I knew I wanted to be an artist, but I didn't really know what it was I wanted to say. Kara Walker

Say Knew Know Artist Wanted Really

I was making big paintings with mythological themes. When I started painting black figures, the white professors were relieved, and the black students were like, 'She's on our side.' These are the kinds of issues that a white male artist just doesn't have to deal with. Kara Walker

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I'm a sponge for historical images of black people and black history on film. Kara Walker

History People Black Black History Sponge Historical Film Images

I've seen people glaze over when they're confronted with racism, and there's nothing more, you know, damning and demeaning to having any kind of ideology than people just walking the walk and saying what they're supposed to say and nodding, and nobody feels anything. Kara Walker

Saying You Racism People Walk Seen Ideology Nothing Damning Say Kind Having More Nobody Over Feels Demeaning Supposed Know Walking Than Any Just Anything Just Walking Confronted

I guess there was a little bit of a slight rebellion, maybe a little bit of a renegade desire that made me realize at some point in my adolescence that I really liked pictures that told stories of things - genre paintings, historical paintings - the sort of derivatives we get in contemporary society. Kara Walker

Me Rebellion Made Society Guess Slight Bit Some Adolescence Point Pictures Liked Contemporary Contemporary Society Genre Renegade Sort Historical Get Maybe Stories Little Little Bit Realize Really Derivatives Paintings Things Desire

I never learned how to be adequately black. I never learned how to be black at all. Kara Walker

Black Adequately Never Learned How

I took a political stance early on, but I don't think my work is overtly political. I respond to events. Kara Walker

Work Events Political Think Took Respond Stance Early

I know that in my family there are histories of violence that are internal family things and that are oftentimes dealt with internally. By internally, I mean inside the family group, but also partly inside ourselves. You know, self-hatred and hostility and rage and this cycle that won't break. Kara Walker

Family You Group Rage Ourselves Inside Hostility Know Also Partly Dealt Histories Oftentimes Break Mean Cycle Internal Things Violence

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