Darius Rucker Quotes

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Darius Rucker

Profession : Musician

Birth : May 13, 1966

It's always a positive when radio is playing your music and fans are responding.

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Every time I have a song that does well, that's a great feeling to have.

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You're always proud that people still want to hear what you're doing.

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I've been a Robert Randolph fan forever, since 2001. I just thought he was so cool; you don't see a black kid playing the slide the way he plays. No one plays like Robert.

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I love jam bands, but I still like a three-and-a-half-minute rock song.

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A lot of times, I don't want to listen to my stuff, because I'm thinking maybe I didn't do my best.

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That's one of my pet peeves. People always want to put something into a category - this one or that one. You know, a great song is a great song.

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I remember my brother was always a jerk to me. One time, he bought Jimi Hendrix's 'Smash Hits,' and he gave it to me because he didn't like it, thinking it was a punishment.

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As a kid, I was big into Al Green, Gladys Knight and the Pips, but as I got older, I started listening to all sorts of music, including country.

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With rock, you can write about anything. There are rock songs I still don't know what they're singing about, but you want to get up and dance.

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I'd be lying to say I've not experienced a lot of racism in my life; it's very much alive. I don't let it bother me. I couldn't be the singer I am if I didn't let it go.

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I love making music, and I love touring. I love that I get to wake up and play music. I don't like being away from my wife and kids.

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I can't live without my family, golf, and football.

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I'm not a studio rat. I do find sitting around playing the same song 12 times kind of tedious. I like to get in and get out.

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I'm going to do whatever I want as long as it's country. I mean, I'm not much on naysayers, so I'll just do whatever. If I like it, I'll do it.

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I plan to make records as long as people wanna keep listening to them.

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Country music's so about the nuclear family and living the southern lifestyle and everything.

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I remember riding around with my friends with 'Ain't Even Done with the Night' cranked up and my windows down. Those were great days.

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To have John Mellencamp compliment my songwriting? That was unreal.

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