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I don't see myself as some kind of fightin'-the-good-fight guy. But I always feel like if you don't like one kind of music or the other, it's just not for you.
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I like songs that make me feel tough. Like 'Back in Black.' You want to hear it again and get in a fight.
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My wife has great taste in everything but men. The vast majority of the songs on my debut album, 'Traveller,' came from lists she made.
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I'm always just looking to get back to the joy of playing music, and keeping it simple, as much as I can.
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I don't think country music needs saving from anything.
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Music is not a game to me. I take it very seriously.
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I just try to make the best music that I can. People are going to label it whatever they're going to label it.
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I'm only worried about what I'm doing or how I present music. I just try to do things I want to listen to, and I think that's what everybody else is try doing, too.
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It's such a strange marriage, a song and someone that sings it. When that works, it really works, and when it doesn't, it doesn't.
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Country music is one of those places where we support each other and prop each other up.
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I am always interested in making myself as uncomfortable as I can. Sometimes I ask myself, 'Can I stand onstage and sing this song and sell it?' Sometimes I can't. In a room, you get to pretend a little bit and step outside of yourself.
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I think the path is different for everybody. Go after the doors that are open to you. That has always been my motto getting into the music business. Do the things that seem to be good opportunities and work hard at it. Try to make good decisions and be nice. Hopefully all of that will pay off at some point.
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I don't ever view myself as a straight country act, and I don't think the straight country acts view me as a straight country act, either - but I certainly belong to them.
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It is a really interesting to hear yourself on the radio. I've gotten to hear myself in different capacities. I've heard myself on Sirius XM on the bluegrass channels, and on WSM and other places.
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The first time you listen to someone else's interpretation of what you've created, it's a little unnerving. They'll change lyrics or something almost every time. That's them being an artist, and you appreciate it more over time.
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It's nice to see people invest in what you do as an artist and sing the songs back at you and feel something. You get to feel something more than what you were feeling when you made the record.
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The show isn't about screens, and we don't have any video content or lasers or things blowing up. I want people to come to our show to listen. I want the show to be the music.
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I've always been in touring bands in some capacity.
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Anyone who says it's so easy to write a country hit and that it's just a formula - well, try it sometime. If it was that easy, everybody would be doing it.
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Great musicians are great musicians, whether they're playing a trombone or an electric guitar or a xylophone.
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I'm not a hustler. I don't pitch songs. I don't ask people to write with me. It's not what I do.
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I was a car salesman, if you can believe it.
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I like to put a record on and then listen to it again and then sit down and make my friends listen to it.
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I'm not reinventing the wheel here. I'm not Chuck Berry or Bill Monroe. Guys like that are from outer space.
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