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Ryan Bingham
Profession : Singer
Birth : March 31, 1981
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I worked for Mack Altizer, who ran Bad Company Rodeo, in Del Rio. Those guys, even though they were cowboys, were all hippies. We were always the black sheep of the rodeo world. From there I went on to Paris, France, where I worked in this Wild West show.
Ryan Bingham
My parents were severe alcoholics. When I was about 17 years old, I finally left home. It wasn't a choice that I made; it was basically like my parents were gone.
Ryan Bingham
I've always been a fan of old-time hymns and Scots-Irish dirges, though I wouldn't necessarily consider myself an expert on the type of music that was performed in those days.
Ryan Bingham
I could hang on a few bulls. And the guys I was rodeoing with, we all took care of each other. They became my family.
Ryan Bingham
You get lucky and you capture that magic in that one moment. You're not going to get it again no matter how many times you do the song over and over and over.
Ryan Bingham
I've always been a big fan of how Woody Guthrie wrote political songs like 'This Land is Your Land.'
Ryan Bingham
I moved around a lot as a kid, and was always the new kid in town. I was always having to confront someone wanting to pick on you the first day at school, wherever the new place you're going, and establish that pecking order.
Ryan Bingham
I think some of my previous stuff... I tend to be a bit lazy in songwriting, where I'll just keep the first thing that comes down, and I won't go back and revisit stuff.
Ryan Bingham
I think it's really important for everybody out there to speak their minds, and not be complicit and let fear back you into this corner where you just let everything go by. It's a responsibility.
Ryan Bingham
When I go onstage and I play or I'm out meeting a lot of people, I've got to get my stuff together. It's not actual stage fright.
Ryan Bingham
I didn't start really playing the guitar till I was about seventeen, and I never really had those formative years are where like I was in my room, figuring all that stuff out before I hit the stage. I just did all that on the road all at once, so all those years of playing roadhouses in bars and clubs, I was really figuring it out.
Ryan Bingham
I was approached by the writers of 'The Bridge,' and they were looking for a song that would go along with the theme of the show. They actually gave me a copy of the script, and gave me a little background info on it, and I started to work on the song from there.
Ryan Bingham
No matter what I'm writing, I almost always start with the music. Definitely, the melody seems to set the tone for whatever emotions come to follow, and whatever's going to be written down. It always starts with the music, for me.
Ryan Bingham
I have kind of a short attention span, so if it doesn't come really quick then I set it down, and hopefully come back to it another time.
Ryan Bingham
I've never been able to sit down with a pen and paper and kind of craft out a song, or really force anything out. It always has to come almost subconsciously.
Ryan Bingham
Traveling around a lot, you see people from all different walks of life. Especially in the early morning hours, you see and meet a lot of characters that you wouldn't usually meet.
Ryan Bingham
I've kind of always had this soft spot in my heart for the homeless community, mainly homeless kids who live on the streets.
Ryan Bingham
My parents were pretty open-minded people, but I think leaving them at a young age really made me grow up fast.
Ryan Bingham
I think to really write songs, you need empathy. You have to put yourself in other people's shoes.
Ryan Bingham
My family lived in West Texas. We went to Houston and Laredo, ended up around Fort Worth - really just made the rounds. And I took in all of those different styles of music.
Ryan Bingham
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