Brad Paisley Quotes

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Brad Paisley

Profession : Musician

Birth : October 28, 1972

If I get an idea for a song, I have a melody for it. I'm a musician first. I'm not limited by the fretboard.

Brad Paisley

If there's a song where there's a possibility of guitar stuff that would be fun to listen to, go for it. Don't worry about what anybody thinks.

Brad Paisley

I like Katy Perry. I like Kesha.

Brad Paisley

Everybody goes through a period where you're fighting a lot, I think. Sometimes that can be a good thing for your relationship. That conflict can lead to making up.

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Our business has changed so much. Do people even want albums, or do they just buy singles now? You sort of feel like you're the last guy manufacturing VCRs... but I really like albums, and so I like doing them. I'll be the last one making them, even when no one's buying them.

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We have to be as good as we want to be as a nation.

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Our songs aren't metaphorical, normally: they're literal in their interpretation.

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I love the Smothers Brothers.

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It's crazy how loyal country fans are. I can't say enough how much that means to me.

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It's a very smart, progressive bunch, these people that make country music. They're not country hicks sitting behind a desk with a big cigar giving out record deals and driving round in Cadillacs with cattle horns on the front grille: it's a bunch of really wonderful, open-minded, great people down on Music Row that make this music.

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When you hear a banjo through stutter edit, it's the coolest thing you ever heard.

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To be a true artist, I have to be true to who I am now and write that way.

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I'm somebody who likes to gravitate toward people who aren't necessarily famous.

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When they say you're the best, I always remember that the majority of the audience probably thinks someone else should have gotten the award.

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I don't have the answers. But I am asking the questions, and that's the fun part. I'm like the kid in class with his hand up, going, 'Um...' I think that's a powerful place to create from.

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I don't think I've changed anything in the country format whatsoever. But I'm not worried about it. I've found my place in it.

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I don't think you can get everything based on who you know, but you can't get anything until you do know the right people.

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You look out there and there's people that, their day is changed because of your contribution to it.

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If you were to hold me to a standard of, 'What are you doing, singing about a scratch-off ticket at your level of success?' then my music's gonna be ridiculous.

Brad Paisley

My first tweet was at the CMT Awards when I won an award and typed, 'Thank you.' Then I was hooked because the followers started multiplying. It's a great tool.

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