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We never take this stuff for granted. The longer we're out here, too, in a lot of ways, the more we appreciate it, because we see so many great acts who're out here with us, and you realize how steep the competition really is. So, this win is even better 'cause it says people are still digging what we're doing. We're still keeping it fresh and people are into it.
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Our business is based in Nashville, and it always will be, but New York City is still our No. 1 or No. 2 market. There's an amazing history of country music here; most people just don't realize. Garth Brooks is still the biggest concert that was ever in Central Park.
Leon Eric Brooks III Brooks & Dunn
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New York actually took notice of us and it wasn't in a hokey, hay-bale kind of way.
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What I want to be able to do as an artist, and with this donation, is to reach out to the kids who haven't found that talent yet or don't have those opportunities.
Leon Eric Brooks III Brooks & Dunn -
And you know, ... it is pretty much a rallying cry for everything we do. I mean, we may turn those guitars up -- and play hard and loud -- but in the end, we're all about taking country music and setting it on stun. That's what we do, and that's what this song is about.
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I don't think we should try to do what the Stones do. Hopefully, it will be the best of what we do.
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They haven't come up with the force of nature that can stop us. Because we live to play, and no matter what it takes, we WILL find a way to make it happen. It may not be according to the original plan, but we don't care... we just wanna get out there and shake it up.
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I knew doing a rap-country song like 'Whiskey Do My Talkin'' was a good move, ... It totally opened the urban side of honky tonk up to us, not to mention there being plenty of good old fashioned amped up country on this one.
Leon Eric Brooks III Brooks & Dunn
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We went totally out of our genre to make sure we weren't doing the same old thing.
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We've got our friends in the world of sports
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We were influenced by classic country acts like Merle Haggard and George Jones and Hank Williams but also by Clapton and the Stones and all the rock acts like that. I mean, what guitar player didn't start out with 'Satisfaction'?
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That's just a part of your soul. I couldn't be complacent about that no matter how much I wanted to. Sometimes thinking I have to write songs for an album feels like I have to study for an exam. Then as soon as I start writing I remember how much I love the process. We both do.
Leon Eric Brooks III Brooks & Dunn -
We are competing against ourselves. There's 28 million people who have Brooks & Dunn CDs ... The challenge is to come up with Brooks & Dunn music that's not something they've got already. That's what we are really up against.
Leon Eric Brooks III Brooks & Dunn