Jon Pardi Quotes

'Dirt On My Boots' is a very different song. I heard the melody, and I heard the lyrics, and I heard the drive of that song. I totally related. It was kinda me when I was on my bulldozer working for my dad.

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• I was even more country in my college-band days.

  

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  • Country
  • College
  • Band

• I started playing guitar by the time I was 9.

  

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  • Time

• I love coming back around Northern California.

  

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  • California

• I always want to just stay humble, and I always want to keep climbing.

  

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  • Humble

• I'm writing songs that I want to sing.

  

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  • Writing

• There's a connection when people are dancing, laughing, and singing, and that definitely happens with 'Head Over Boots.'

  

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  • People
  • Singing
  • Connection

• A lot of my fans, and a lot of country music fans, they still wear boots.

  

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  • Music
  • Country

• 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've really been studying lyrics, printing out lyrics to songs I love and reading them like a letter.

  

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  • Reading
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• I had a drummer I really wanted to move to Nashville with me, and he's like, 'Naw, I can't go, man.' He never could pull the trigger. It's a big move. You just gotta be diehard - you gotta give it your all, you know.

  

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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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  • Fun
  • Song
  • Single

• 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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  • Music

• 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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  • Remember

• I always want to have the traditional country soul while meeting the new standards of country music.

  

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  • Music
  • Country
  • Soul

• 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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  • Up
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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 mixing country with kind of a modern twist to it.

  

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  • Country

• 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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  • Search

• 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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• 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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  • Country

• Sing your heart out and write the best song you possible can.

  

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  • Heart
  • Song

• There's so many great people in Country Radio, and I appreciate all the support they've given me.

  

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  • People
  • Great
  • Country

• '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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  • Real
  • School
  • Style

• I'm moving forward and getting new fans at every show.

  

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