A biography for Lari Whitehasn’t been written yet.
“I think I'm the last person on the planet to use the internet, but I'm re-engaging my fans through Facebook and Twitter and Instagram, doing the whole social media scene.”
“I studied classical piano from the time I was 4 through my first year of college.”
“Music does communicate across language and racial and religious and philosophical barriers. It is one of the most distilled forms of human emotions.”
“I feel so fortunate I was able to grow up in such a warm, loving, safe, beautiful community that I still call home.”
“I would love to go to England, Europe and especially Australia. I have a real fantasy about playing in Australia; I would love to get over there.”
“I'm not a mainstream country artist, and I never will be.”
“It's a great thing not trying to make music for a label but just for the love of music again.”
“I definitely would have liked to stay at RCA and have had that relationship, and had them grow with me and support that.”
“It didn't take very long for me to feel like the country radio box was a little too small. So that's what 'Don't Fence Me In' was all about.”
“I studied jazz in college. I studied music history, and I have a degree in music engineering.”
“That's the ideal to me - to make music that is well-crafted and sophisticated technically, but has a soul and a heart that touches a lot of people.”
“If there's any profit to be had in Nashville-Underground, it's very long term. We're not about money, which gives us an edge over the labels.”
“I really wanted a No. 1 single from my first album, but I would not do anything different. It was real and honest and I didn't pretend anything.”
“I love a beautiful, soaring, singable melody. But what really draws me to a song, at the end of the day, is the words.”
“I had this fantasy vision of what a career as a musician was like. And then I grew up and actually got in the business and realized, it doesn't often work that way.”
“I'm building my fan base around the fact that here's someone who does things a little differently, who brings other musical influences into country music, and you never really know what she's going to do next.”
“I found when I started getting serious about writing music, that my writing was country songs. It was basically country subject matter, country melodies and simple chord changes.”
“I've gone gold. I'm very excited.”
“Music is like church to me. It's as spiritual a connection as I just about ever make.”
“I could never really see myself being a pop artist.”