Brett Young Quotes

Brett Young

Profession : Musician

Birth : March 23, 1981

If I want people to connect to my words and my stories, I need to tell them where they came from. Because then, when you break into song, they have kind of a blueprint for why I wrote that song, so they can come to it with something they went through that helps them connect to it.

Brett Young

There's room for everybody to have success, but the moment I start slacking is the moment people will forget about me.

Brett Young

Californian artists are kind of willing to push the limits a little bit further just because that's kind of our mentality in that state.

Brett Young

It is such a surreal feeling to have my first single go No. 1!

Brett Young

My dad's a pastor; I grew up in the church, and it's really easy to just have a healthy respect for what some people might be sensitive to.

Brett Young

The fact of the matter is, if music is something that you want to do, you need to stick with it with the idea that you're going to do it until it works.

Brett Young

There is a lot of California in my... sound, and a ton of it is the laid-back nature of Southern Californians and the beach.

Brett Young

I love to be able to tell a whole story in three-and-half minutes.

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It is such a crazy idea that maybe something that I wrote or something that I put on a record would affect people at all.

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I'm very approachable and want to meet everybody.

Brett Young

I turned on 'One Tree Hill,' heard the opening song, and went, 'I got to know whose voice that is.'

Brett Young

Gavin DeGraw - his first record is the reason that I wanted to start writing music. The way that he says something that everybody says on a regular basis but he says it differently. It makes you kind of perk up and listen.

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My parents' example of a loving, caring relationship, I think, has affected my songwriting a ton and allowed me to start writing love songs that people could connect to without sounding like you're being cheesy, because they're coming from a real place, something that I saw coming up. I think they're a huge influence on my songwriting.

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I like the idea of a relationship where you can need and rely on each other and not feel needy and not feel like that makes you not independent.

Brett Young

I've never seen my dad come home from work and not walk straight to my mom and ask her about her day.

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I think I realized my parents' relationship was special when I had my first girlfriend, and she came from a broken marriage. I watched how much closeness there was between her and her mom, and also how much bickering.

Brett Young

The only way to have longevity is to have good songs.

Brett Young

The power of a label and radio and a booking agency and all that - you never know until you experience it the first time, but being able to have a song on radio, but then go play a show for people that have heard the song on radio, and having it sung back to you, is - I don't know how to describe it.

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I moved to Nashville with the same kind of mindset that I had in L.A., and that is to make sure you don't get outworked by anybody and make sure you're always writing songs and take every opportunity to play that you can.

Brett Young

I don't know what it is in me that refuses to quit, but I think it's kind of like, dare to dream.

Brett Young