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We never take this stuff for granted. The longer we're out here, too, in a lot of ways, the more we appreciate it, because we see so many great acts who're out here with us, and you realize how steep the competition really is. So, this win is even better 'cause it says people are still digging what we're doing. We're still keeping it fresh and people are into it.
Leon Eric Brooks III Brooks & Dunn -
I'm not a Republican, and I'm not a Democrat.
Ronnie Dunn Brooks & Dunn
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I pay less attention to my hair then probably anybody that I know. I get out of the shower, I towel dry it. I, like, blow it off and then I just run my hands through it and away we go. It's just what it is.
Ronnie Dunn Brooks & Dunn -
I'm very much involved in art. I started buying art a few years ago and really like the work of T.C. Cannon, who is a native American artist. Then I was introduced to Soviet-era Russian impressionism and started collecting that, especially Gely Korzhev.
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When we look at cities across the country, Cincinnati, for example, where they have come under DOJ guidance with a consent decree, we see that, over time, there has been a transformation in the relationship between the police and the community, where now they have a partnership and true collaborative policing, co-policing, to make the community safer overall.
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When I get all focused on songwriting, I get into all the marketing and promotion that we do to make it happen. Then the right song comes along and blows it all out of the water. The right song will do it for you every time.
Ronnie Dunn Brooks & Dunn -
Sometimes, I work a little more from emotion than I do from rational thought.
Ronnie Dunn Brooks & Dunn -
I don't walk around with a cowboy hat. I did get a tattoo that says 'cowboy' that's a bit of an over-compensation, probably.
Ronnie Dunn Brooks & Dunn
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I feel like I am campaigning door to door. You just can't step out of a band like Brooks & Dunn and assume that it is just going to be business as usual. You have to work it. It does feel like a campaign where you would have Obama, Romney, or Newt beating the bushes right now. That's what I'm having to do.
Ronnie Dunn Brooks & Dunn -
I do have to step out and take time to let people know that I'm Ronnie Dunn and not Brooks and Dunn.
Ronnie Dunn Brooks & Dunn -
I grew up very modest, and I never forget that.
Ronnie Dunn Brooks & Dunn -
Our business is based in Nashville, and it always will be, but New York City is still our No. 1 or No. 2 market. There's an amazing history of country music here; most people just don't realize. Garth Brooks is still the biggest concert that was ever in Central Park.
Leon Eric Brooks III Brooks & Dunn -
I'm from Oklahoma. I mean, you can't have good hair in Oklahoma. That's why everyone wears hats. The wind just messes it up.
Ronnie Dunn Brooks & Dunn -
What I want to be able to do as an artist, and with this donation, is to reach out to the kids who haven't found that talent yet or don't have those opportunities.
Leon Eric Brooks III Brooks & Dunn
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New York actually took notice of us and it wasn't in a hokey, hay-bale kind of way.
Leon Eric Brooks III Brooks & Dunn -
I don't think we should try to do what the Stones do. Hopefully, it will be the best of what we do.
Leon Eric Brooks III Brooks & Dunn -
And you know, ... it is pretty much a rallying cry for everything we do. I mean, we may turn those guitars up -- and play hard and loud -- but in the end, we're all about taking country music and setting it on stun. That's what we do, and that's what this song is about.
Leon Eric Brooks III Brooks & Dunn -
They haven't come up with the force of nature that can stop us. Because we live to play, and no matter what it takes, we WILL find a way to make it happen. It may not be according to the original plan, but we don't care... we just wanna get out there and shake it up.
Leon Eric Brooks III Brooks & Dunn -
My preference is 3,000, maybe 5,000-seat venues.
Ronnie Dunn Brooks & Dunn -
We were influenced by classic country acts like Merle Haggard and George Jones and Hank Williams but also by Clapton and the Stones and all the rock acts like that. I mean, what guitar player didn't start out with 'Satisfaction'?
Leon Eric Brooks III Brooks & Dunn
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We went totally out of our genre to make sure we weren't doing the same old thing.
Leon Eric Brooks III Brooks & Dunn -
I knew doing a rap-country song like 'Whiskey Do My Talkin'' was a good move, ... It totally opened the urban side of honky tonk up to us, not to mention there being plenty of good old fashioned amped up country on this one.
Leon Eric Brooks III Brooks & Dunn -
That's just a part of your soul. I couldn't be complacent about that no matter how much I wanted to. Sometimes thinking I have to write songs for an album feels like I have to study for an exam. Then as soon as I start writing I remember how much I love the process. We both do.
Leon Eric Brooks III Brooks & Dunn -
We've got our friends in the world of sports
Leon Eric Brooks III Brooks & Dunn