Brad Paisley Quotes

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Brad Paisley

Profession : Musician

Birth : October 28, 1972

Country music has become the music that best represents the reality of American life.

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It comes down to building your own world out here on the road. It's who you surround yourself with. My band and crew are really positive guys.

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Even in your darkest moments, you'll think of something that'll crack you up.

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If you make the mistake of looking back too much, you aren't focused enough on the road in front of you.

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There may be people in my audience who may not agree with me on some particular issue - you know, say, as a gun owner, they may not agree with me, or, you know, someone may not agree with me on a gay marriage topic. Any of those things. But those shouldn't be the reasons you listen to my music.

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Deep down, I'm just a West Virginia hillbilly.

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If you're really on top, you probably didn't do that great, 'cause you have to water it down a bit for it to get that mass appeal.

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I've been ripping the Rolling Stones off with every song I write in some form or another.

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When you fall in love, you don't have a whole lot of time. But when it comes to a heartache, all of the sudden you have time on your hands, and it's an outlet for you to write.

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If somebody says, 'Do you remember the first time you heard a Rolling Stones song?' if you say you do, you're crazy. You've just always heard them. You might remember the first time it impacted you, but the first time you heard one, you were in a cradle.

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A hat has to be shaped to a person's face so it fights just right. It has to be done right. If you put my hat on, with my shape, you'd look like an idiot. If the bill is too high or too saggy, you look like a European tourist going to their first country concert.

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Anytime you do something from the heart, people just know it.

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I love any and all situations where you celebrate creativity.

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Guitar playing isn't really for everybody.

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I wanted to be Buck Owens and Bill Anderson and Roger Miller. With a higher-resolution video screen. And lasers.

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It just gets easier in that you become more you in the process.

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When I got married, I hired a great choir - the St. James Choir, an all-black gospel choir - to sing at my wedding.

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I try to write like the writers I admire - I rip them off in form. It comes from George Strait and Merle Haggard records, and country music in general is really good at that, the twisted phrase... So I'm always looking for that angle in my own work.

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That was my trick. I interned a lot.

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At certain times, your career should be a party.

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