"Songs come from all over the place. You can't predict what you're going to like. You might like something that doesn't fit right now. What was working for you at one point, something you've loved for years and years, when you get together with everybody, you think, this doesn't match up with what's going on with you personally"
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Her most revealing move is the shift from “you” to “everybody.” She’s talking about the private chemistry between a listener and a song, then suddenly relocating it to the group setting: bandmates, collaborators, even an audience’s expectations. A track can be perfect in solitude and wrong in rehearsal. That’s not hypocrisy; it’s friction between the self you are alone and the self you have to be in public. The line “doesn’t fit right now” carries a musician’s practical reality (arrangements, setlists, pacing) and an emotional one (you change, sometimes faster than your catalog does).
The subtext feels like a defense of artistic flexibility against nostalgia’s tyranny. “Something you’ve loved for years and years” isn’t sacred; it’s subject to re-audition. Krauss isn’t rejecting the past so much as refusing to be trapped by it, acknowledging that the hardest edit isn’t writing new material - it’s letting beloved material stop representing you when your life has moved on.
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Krauss, Alison. (2026, January 17). Songs come from all over the place. You can't predict what you're going to like. You might like something that doesn't fit right now. What was working for you at one point, something you've loved for years and years, when you get together with everybody, you think, this doesn't match up with what's going on with you personally. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/songs-come-from-all-over-the-place-you-cant-63773/
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Krauss, Alison. "Songs come from all over the place. You can't predict what you're going to like. You might like something that doesn't fit right now. What was working for you at one point, something you've loved for years and years, when you get together with everybody, you think, this doesn't match up with what's going on with you personally." FixQuotes. January 17, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/songs-come-from-all-over-the-place-you-cant-63773/.
MLA Style (9th ed.)
"Songs come from all over the place. You can't predict what you're going to like. You might like something that doesn't fit right now. What was working for you at one point, something you've loved for years and years, when you get together with everybody, you think, this doesn't match up with what's going on with you personally." FixQuotes, 17 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/songs-come-from-all-over-the-place-you-cant-63773/. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.
