Sam Hunt Quotes
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Respect for women was a very important part of my upbringing.
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I do feel pressure internally and externally to put out music, but that excites me because I love songwriting, and this brings me back to why I got in music in the first place, so I'm excited about that.
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I am kind of the front man for a team of people behind the scenes who are working just as hard as me and are putting in just as much time to make this all happen. I'm not trying to be humble. I just want everyone to get credit where credit is due.
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I study what's happening in music. I want to sound different than everybody else.
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Fortunately, the music from the first record really connected with people, and I was really proud of that.
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Maybe one day music will just be music, and there won't be these categories; it'll just be different shades of music.
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By no means do I want to try to leave country music. That's absolutely where I want to stay.
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I had some interesting costumes... the one that I remember right offhand is Zorro when I was a lot younger. I was a big time Zorro fan. My mom helped me make it, and I remember having a big issue with the fact that she wouldn't let me carry around a real metal sword; it just had to be plastic.
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People throw things at me sometimes, at big festivals.
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I wanted to be a bull rider when I grew up.
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I'm not really a piano player, but I play enough to get away with it.
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New experiences give you new perspectives on life.
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I never thought of myself as a performer or songwriter or singer.
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Prior to getting into music, I interacted with, on a daily basis, about 5-10 percent of the people that I've interacted with since then. I've been meeting people from different backgrounds and different cultures. That did allow for a lot of change. I've changed as a product of that, but it's been positive.
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I don't get irrational about it, but I do have a deeply-rooted competitive spirit. Not necessarily towards other people, but towards any obstacle that I set for myself.
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Picking up a guitar brought a lot of balance into my life.
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I love all kinds of music, and I would write really traditional country songs and songs that were just really out there, that didn't sound country at all, and everything in between.
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I really feel like I honed in on a sound and a style of writing that best fits me.
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I thought that I could have a career in music. I really didn't know exactly what I wanted to do or how I would go about doing it.
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From the pop side, people like Usher, and when they first came out, I listened to guys like K-Ci and JoJo; that '90s R&B thing really caught my ear.
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I was a big music fan, but I never bought a bunch of records or was very educated, I guess, on who was who or what was what.
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I worked at a hospital parking cars and getting folks in and out of the hospital as they would come in for their appointments.
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I got a horse when I was eight or 10 years old. And dad used to take me to the rodeo back home. I got into it big time.
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I love being outside, I do a lot of hunting.