Ryan Bingham Quotes

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Ryan Bingham

Profession : Singer

Birth : March 31, 1981

I guess I always need some kind of solitude to get to that place where I am open enough and have zero distractions to start on the initial ideas for songs.

Ryan Bingham

When I started playing music it was around Austin and the Hill Country area in Texas and there were always campfires and picking circles and I loved being a part of that.

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I enjoy acting because it is very different to songwriting and it allows me to flex a different creative muscle.

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Songwriting can get pretty heavy and personal for me and I like being able to explore different emotions that are not necessarily my own.

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I used sit in the back of the truck and make up these songs and play at the tailgates at rodeos.

Ryan Bingham

If we were at a bar in a small town and not many people were there, people would bug me to bring in my guitar and play. I was paying my dues, learning how it all worked.

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Bull riding isn't that much different than the life of a musician. You're trying to ride an uncontrollable force, there are no rules or limits or regulations, and there's a freedom in it that's also a bit terrifying. You can learn a lot about yourself through some of those scarier moments.

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I always try to leave songs open for people to interpret in their own ways.

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You just can't muscle your way through some things in life. You just have to keep your head on your shoulders and dance with it as you go.

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For me it's important to keep changing things up and growing and experiencing new things.

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I guess that's a chance you have to take when you try to do anything different or creative or artsy. You can't just keep painting the same picture over and over.

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My uncle rode bulls professionally and he got me into it. I started riding steers when I was about eleven and he started taking me to little jackpots and I really got into it.

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When I turned thirteen, I moved up to the junior bull scale. They didn't really classify them by how big they were but how bad they were. The first time I got on one of the big boys I was absolutely terrified but excited at the same time.

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I always had to have a day job, working on other people's ranches or construction or whatever. I was making a little bit of money rodeoing, but between the both of them it wasn't much of a living.

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I like a lot of the older country stuff. Shoot. We actually do really good in punk rock clubs. I don't really know where our fan base lies.

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I'm originally from Hobbs, New Mexico but moved around a lot growing up. My family had a ranch 40 miles from town where they raised cattle and sheep. Shortly after I was born they sold the ranch and my father went to work in the oilfields.

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I always packed around this guitar my mother gave me before I left home, I would write songs and play them for my buddies at the rodeos and local bars we would frequent.

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The time I spent working in the wild west show in Paris had a pretty big impact on me. A friend of mine had hooked me up with the gig over there and I literally left Texas with a hundred dollar bill in my pocket and one way plane ticket to Paris.

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It's never fun to run out of gas while on a road trip, But the adventure of trying to find gas when your in the middle a nowhere usually ends up being a funny story a few years down the line.

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For a band like me I don't really get crazy exposure with the record so sometimes it does take a while to circulate around and get out to fans.

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