Jon Pardi Quotes
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I was even more country in my college-band days.
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I always want to just stay humble, and I always want to keep climbing.
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I started playing guitar by the time I was 9.
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My grandmother loved country music, and she's the one who really got me into country music. She had George Strait tapes, a bunch of them. I remember listening to tapes, taking them out, the covers and the back.
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I love coming back around Northern California.
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If you get music on a personal level, you are doing something right. It's not just in one ear and out the other.
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What I can feel the most and what I can remember the most are the melodies I want to write to.
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Getting a beginner publishing deal really helped me gain the skills. I just kept writing and writing. You just take everything out of life and turn it into an idea or a melody or a song and find the best writers you can to write with that fit you and know what you want to do.
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You've got these guys that have this fresh, street, hip-hop country that sells a zillion. Keep doing that. I'll keep doing my stuff. We'll see how it goes.
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There's so many great people in Country Radio, and I appreciate all the support they've given me.
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At 14, I was in my own little classic rock country band. Then, after high school, I started another band called Northern Comfort. That was based out of Chico, Calif.
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I'm writing songs that I want to sing.
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'Dirt on My Boots' was pegged as the second single from 'California Sunrise' from the get-go, and we felt like it was just a fun song to go with.
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We travel so much as touring musicians and artists that sometimes, when you hear a great song that you really think could be on your project, you go ahead and record it instead of try to write it.
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As a songwriter, you always look for guys that you can write good with. Show up, have an idea, knock it out of the park.
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I'm a guy who doesn't know the name of the chord, but I know that it sounds good.
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As a songwriter, you always want to search for something that's right in front of you that you can twist into something new.
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My California sunrise, there's a real mist in the air. I think of the mountains. You can smell the farm fields. You can smell the dirt and the lights and the whole sun.
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A lot of my fans, and a lot of country music fans, they still wear boots.
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I always want to have the traditional country soul while meeting the new standards of country music.
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'Swagger' would be the word for 'Dirt On My Boots.' With the real funky drum loop and the ganjo rolling down, and then the fiddles and the guitar and steel, it really took an old school style where it's fiddle, steel, guitar, and mixed it with a drum loop.
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I can play with Florida Georgia Line. We can throw down with people. I think that's what sets me apart.
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I'm mixing country with kind of a modern twist to it.
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I can be a traditionalist but also play with Luke Bryan and get the crowd to go crazy. I think that mix is a lot of what has kept me going and kept people fired up about the music.