Brad Paisley Quotes

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Brad Paisley

Profession : Musician

Birth : October 28, 1972

I'm not answering questions with my songs.

Brad Paisley

I can't play a solo without thinking about John Jorgenson. I always think about what he would do.

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I'm not a person you can figure out in one month. And you can't listen to one song and say, 'That's who he is.'

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When you got something you gotta do in your career, you do it. When you get home, and there's work to be done, you do that. It's all about balance.

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No one can make the album they made 10 years ago with a straight face. There are two reasons: one is you change as a person. To be a true artist, I have to be true to who I am now and write that way. And the second thing is these are different times.

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I listen to the same things that a lot of my fans do, and I grew up in much the same way they're growing up.

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In Nashville, if people don't like someone, they say, 'I don't really like him,' then add, 'bless his heart.' In Hollywood, they kind of leave that last part off.

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I still consider myself working in Nashville. I visit Hollywood.

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I'm sick of feeling like we're in a decline. Let's look at the good.

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There's something about being out here on the road that the hours aren't anything like what you're used to when you're at home.

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I have a very down-to-earth father. My wife is an actress and famous herself is more down-to-earth than anyone I know.

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I've always known from the time I was eight years old what I wanted to do. I would have been fairly content to be someone's lead guitar player.

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Some of the worst selfies I've ever seen are at Auschwitz or Ground Zero.

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That's why we do this. In country music, we do this for this very reason... to impact people lyrically, to be a part of their lives.

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I've been on the road I think probably three years.

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We learned that whether or not you support the war, you honor the soldiers that fight.

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It's interesting to hear what somebody does when they have no interest in playing by the rules.

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The artists who stick around for a while are the ones who go, 'Oh, that's cool, never thought of that. Ought to do that.'

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You're a sitting duck in a mall if you're a celebrity. It's like that scene from 'Guarding Tess,' I think it is, where Shirley MacLaine goes to the mall just to feel good about her celebrity.

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If a little kid picks up Guitar Hero and learns 'Smoke On The Water,' he soon finds out that if he wants the chicks to look at him, he'd better learn it on the guitar!

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