Sam Hunt Quotes
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It took me a couple years to get over the stereotype I was letting myself get caught up on, being a football player trying to start a career in music.
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The most flattering thing I hear is, 'I didn't think I liked country music before I heard your record.'
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You think about the artists I look at as icons, and you assume they were instantly embraced. That's usually not the case. In reality, they had to overcome a lot of noes to get where they wanted to be.
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Putting out music as it's made, versus holding it until an album's finished, allows me to be more timely and maintain balance.
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I love what Drake does, but I don't want to be called the Drake of country.
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I like doing stuff like, for instance, in the 'Leave the Night On' video, I had on a plain white T-shirt. I just wanted to do something to it to make it a little different, so I just cut a big strip out of the side, from the shirttail up to my armpit, and cut a big red strip out of another T-shirt and just sewed it in there.
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After graduating college, I was coming out of a routine I'd been in for several years, all the way back to high school. It was a year-round process of constantly having to work and be disciplined, and I was able to understand and connect the dots between all those characteristics - especially hard work and success.
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I'm still learning a lot as a songwriter. I try to write down and make a note of ideas that I cross paths with on a day-to-day basis, whether it be a conversation or something I hear on the radio, seeing a movie, or just thoughts in my head as I'm walking down the street.
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With a song called 'House Party,' you'd expect it to be more about a big party, not as much about a relationship, so we tried to put a little bit of a unique twist on it.
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I connect music to the emotions that come from relationships, so most of the songs that I write are inspired by those circumstances, emotions, feelings, all that kind of stuff.
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I've had a lot of folks tell me that my songs weren't quite country because they didn't really sound like anybody that had come along and done it before me. I felt a little out of place for a while.
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The things that are going to be in all my records, for as long as I'm making them, are going to go back to who I am and where I'm from and the lifestyle that I live and come from - and I don't know how I could ever get any of that close enough to pop to be considered a pop act.
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I played quarterback, and it was a leadership position, and even though I'm doing a solo thing now, a lot of my success is a part of assembling this team of people who are really, really talented, and their position doesn't put them out front the way mine does, but it's still a team effort.
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I still get excited about it. I miss playing ball.
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I can't play guitar if I blow my arm out.
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I have a whole, whole lot of respect for the men and women that serve our country.
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People sniff out when you try to fake something or be something you are not.
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I'm not trying to become a pop artist, and I'm not trying to make sure I stay a country artist. I'm just trying to make sure I make the best music I can, according to my way.
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I learned from making a few of these low-budget videos early on that the best way to go about doing it is just to keep it honest and real.
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Any chance to get out and play live for some people and get out of the studio is nice.
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Shane McAnally is a really good friend of mine. He's one of the first guys that really embraced what I was doing with an open mind.
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Within the songwriting community, there are these unwritten rules for the way that a song should be written in country music, and I think that those rules are constantly being broken over the years, and the molds change and the process is evolving.
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At heart, I'm a relationship guy, but my adventurous side makes it hard. I hope I'll find a balance.
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It's good to be proud of your heritage and your culture, but pride can be perverted.