Ashley McBryde Quotes
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I started playing mandolin when I was three or four years old because I was too small to be playing guitar. As I got older and more responsible with holding instruments, I was allowed to play my mom's guitar that she had.
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I was lucky that my parents listened to really good music. My dad loved Kris Kristofferson.
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I haven't shut up, I think, since I was born. I tend to talk a lot, and I sing constantly, and I know that it can be kind of annoying, but I would say I sound a lot like my mom.
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In college, I was able to be the vocalist for the jazz band at Arkansas State.
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I am the youngest of six. There's the smart one and the pretty one, and I am the loud one.
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Nothing lights a fire under you like somebody saying, 'You're not going to be able to do it.'
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I keep a $2 bill rolled up in every pair of boots I own because one time, an older guy came up to me at a farmer's market I was playing in Memphis, handed me a $2 bill, and said, 'Stick this in your boot.' And when I stood back up, he handed me a $100 bill and said, 'Thanks for listening to me. Stick this in your pocket.'
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I was kind of always the underdog.
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Sometimes choosing to leave a mistake on a track is way cooler than going back and nailing it.
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Singing 'Family Tradition' with Hank Jr. was a pee-your-pants moment. Hank comes over while I'm singing and puts his arm around me, and my knees nearly buckled. You can put off the fact that this is reality, but when he came over, there was just no denying. I just lost cabin pressure.
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I was lucky to grow up in the '90s, when we had just as many strong female artists as male artists. That's a world I would like to live in again.
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I have a big love for jazz music. The only thing I hated about singing with a jazz band was having to wear a gown to everything.
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It's all been guerrilla warfare trying to get my name out there.
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I was a terrible student, but I never missed a music class. In fact, I don't even think I attended most of my gen-ed classes, but I never missed a single music class.
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In bluegrass, there's a lot of joke-telling and a lot of banter between bandmates. It's like improv or watching the 'Carol Burnett Show.'
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It's not a problem if 20,000 people heard my music for free, but it's a huge problem if 20,000 people never heard my music.
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Your fame and your success moves much more rapidly than your ability to fund it.
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When I was 12, I wrote a legit song - about having my heart broken, of course, because I was 12 years old going on 40. I sang the song for my mom, and she asked, 'Where did you get that song?' I told her I wrote it, and she said, 'Really?' She looked at my grandparents and just said, 'Oh, boy.'
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When I was growing up, radio DJs were celebrities, not just the people singing the songs.
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You never know when the love of your life might just walk in.
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Being called a new artist doesn't bother me at all.
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I listened to a lot of No Doubt stuff when I was in high school - or maybe it was middle school... I don't want to age myself too much!
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I'm just going to do what I do, and people will like it, or they won't.
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If you can sing to a room of 60 people who don't give a damn, then if, someday, you're playing to people who really want to hear your music, that's not hard.