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That weekend my people brought home
a big eared gray scrawny kit.
He was so loud and annoying
that I did not like him one bit.


Melinda K. Trotter

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KATY TROTTER Just to be a member of the Stanford women's cross country team with those girls, I was in awe.
KATY TROTTER We just enjoy this relay very much. It's a special relay for us.
KATY TROTTER We provide quality service and have great relationships with our customers. We want to address their...
JOSEPH TROTTER It?s difficult to find talented, gifted and creative people who are so loyal.
JOSEPH TROTTER The very presence of guilt, let alone its tenacity, implies imbalance: Something, we suspect, is get...
MELINDA M. MARSHALL A true friend sticks with you through thick and thin no matter what.
K All the mysteries of the universe are solved within the Imagination.
K. FORD K. Sit down Rodney. Keep your brains warm.
DEREK DEL BOY TROTTER When I was growing up, I wasn't in bands, and had really no intention of ever doing music. I wen...
K. FLAY My songs are a mix of my own weird raised-by-wolves perspective and civilization.
K. FLAY I went in reverse with this whole thing. People I've toured with were kids who consumed as much ...
K. FLAY A lot of people don't even listen to albums start to finish, but I do - for sure.
K. FLAY I think, on the rap side of life, I've always been inspired by and respected Missy Elliott for a...
K. FLAY Hip-hop is rich in musical allusion. It takes something that already existed, respects it, and reuse...
K. FLAY Pre-show, I warm up my voice, stretch, do a little team huddle, and sometimes throw a shot of whiske...
K. FLAY I liked that music was a window into a world with a lot of unpredictability and chaos; it was almost...
K. FLAY My dad was a serious alcoholic, and ultimately, that's why he died. When you're a child of s...
K. FLAY I love playing in Chicago. It's the memory lane hometown, which is really nice.
K. FLAY I know that in my own mind, I struggle with a desire to be both entirely absent and entirely present...
K. FLAY The more I talk to people who are at a place I'd like to be at, whether its music or writing, or...
K. FLAY When I first started making music, I was all about wordplay and how fast I could rap, but over the y...
K. FLAY As an independent artist, you control the means of production, which is the ultimate form of empower...
K. FLAY More than anything for me, making music is about taking nothing and making something.
K. FLAY It's like there's this boldness that I have where I'm driven by something that I can'...
K. FLAY Most of the people at my headline shows are in their 20s, but it varies a ton: like, I've had a ...
K. FLAY There are people who are profoundly mentally ill. But we now have a very weird perspective on mental...
K. FLAY There's something distinct and interesting about a live performance. There's this weird imme...
K. FLAY My sound is, at its core, a mix of things. Definitely an imperfect mix, but one that incorporates el...
K. FLAY Even successful musicians have had periods where people say they suck and no one likes them, even af...
K. FLAY A college degree is not essential, but if you're already in college, and if it's at all poss...
K. FLAY Feeling anxious or depressed sometimes is part of what it means to be a person, and it might even be...
K. FLAY The more time passes in your life, I think the greater you understand perspective. So I'm happy ...
K. FLAY Remember, when the judgment's weak, the prejudice is strong.
K. O'HARA There's only so many variations on the basics of human relationships. To me, it's all about ...
K. FLAY I've always had a duck personality. Calm above water, feet going crazy below.
K. FLAY My dad played guitar, and he taught me enough to play some Beatles' songs. But primarily, I was ...
K. FLAY Even the dark places are places. You're still somewhere.
K. FLAY I was thinking about how we're so in touch with our image now. That conception of ourselves, in ...
K. FLAY What's become a big theme in my music is my dad as a narrative character. I never had the opport...
K. FLAY I was always very academically focused when I was growing up, and music was something for which I re...
K. FLAY Mainly, I hope to inspire honesty. We live in a space where so much can be manipulated, and so much ...
K. FLAY My future is just a mirage. The more I expect from it, it just turns out to be mere reflections.
MARIA K when your child is born, you know that of all the lives you might have lived, only this one was ever...
K WILCOX I'm done with temporary... I need permanence!
K. MARQUES Remember This: People give advice, not to hurt you but, to keep you from getting hurt. They see thin...
K. MARQUES If you aren't worth it to them, they shouldn't be worth it to you.
K. MARQUES Big Love and More Light!
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K. LOVE Love one another. Love yourself. Then love will find you whole not half.
K. TAYLOR