Dierks Bentley Quotes
I have so much respect for the genre of country music and for all the greats that have been a part of it. I'm a country singer, I'm a country fan, and I'm a student of country music.
Quotes to Explore
-
If you make a film too American, it won't travel. It will have no life outside of its own country.
-
Although all of us may not agree with that particular lifestyle for religious reasons, whatever the reason is, you still treat each other with respect.
-
As a songwriter, you tend to develop your own style, your own technique, based around what it is you're trying to write and perform, in terms of your own music. So a way of evolving a guitar style as a songwriter is much easier, I think, than developing a true style of your own just from listening to music or playing other people's music.
-
I started acting almost on a whim to help my music career.
-
The idea of music is to liberate the listener and lead him to a frame where he feels he is elevated.
-
I come from a country and also a continent whose identity is in the making. We're a very young culture, and I think that things are not yet crystallised.
-
You have to really love women in order to really just have a respect for women and love them. No man - I don't care what kind of man it is, how feminine he is - they never could understand what we go through as far as physically and mentally.
-
Sports without music is just a game. Music makes it entertaining.
-
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.
-
I like finding that common point between another song and my music. It's like between people; you can be of religion or another, from this country or from another country, but we're all basically the same. It's just the same with songs.
-
I believe that God wants us to show respect.
-
I began with small roles in successful movies like 'No Country For Old Men' by the Coen brothers; but it was 'The Last Exorcism' that changed my life: with what I earned, I left Texas and moved to Los Angeles.
-
Billy Joel is an incredible musician. He just feels like one of the guys, you know. I grew up listening to his music.
-
Fear rules almost every newsroom in the country.
-
Kids should be naughty and go through that rebellious phase I didn't have.
-
I respect people who can do both careers, like Will Smith and a couple of other people who have done it, but I just don't know when they sleep.
-
Music is not a profession. Music is a way of life - one that requires much professionalism.
-
I never work just to work. It's some combination of laziness and self-respect.
-
Sometimes I feel like music has made love to me.
-
It's not like the world No.1 spot is always in my mind.
-
You work here on the farm simply without philosophizing; sometimes the work is hard and crowded with pettiness. But at times you feel a surge of cosmic exaltation, like the clear light of the heavens... . And you, too, seem to be taking root in the soil which you are digging, to be nourished by the rays of the sun, to share life with the tiniest blade of grass, with each flower; living in nature's depths, you seem then to rise and grow into the vast expanse of the universe.
-
I have so much respect for the genre of country music and for all the greats that have been a part of it. I'm a country singer, I'm a country fan, and I'm a student of country music.
