Shooter Jennings Quotes

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Shooter Jennings

Profession : Musician

Birth : May 19, 1979

Me and my wife watch laser discs, and I collect old computers. And one of my regular models is a 1993 computer with Windows 98 on it. I just love old technology, and I don't know what you would call that. I'm just stuck in 1991, '92.

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My generation is so tied up in television, computers, and video games. When we were born, MTV was already there. It was normal.

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I don't care if people like Trump or hate him, if they voted for him or not; people just want to have a good time. They don't want to hear about immigration or whatever on a record or at a show.

Shooter Jennings

Dave Cobb is someone who shows up every day and is playing guitar and never takes his eye off the ball. That's what the greats in music do. The music is in great hands as long as he's making it.

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If you are close to your parents or a grandparent, you watch as they get old and you learn so much from that, and it makes you want to learn more while you have time.

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Being with my kids is really important to me, being a good dad and being around a lot.

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I was able to be more reckless and now I still make mistakes, but having kids, you have a responsibility and these little people who are looking up to you for everything.

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All of my records have been very personal, just writing more and more songs, you get better at being able to say what you feel.

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You know, when I was younger I was into all kinds of art - drawing, painting, all that stuff. But I played drums, played piano forever.

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I don't think I thought I was going to go into music, and I don't think it hit me until I was 13 or 14, and then I was gone. Just like that. At that point, there was nothing else that could keep my attention.

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L.A.'s cool; I had a run with it to where it just pretty much wore me out. I love the weather and I have great friends there, great family, but I really cannot take a lot of the culture. Like Nashville, where everybody's a songwriter, everybody out there is an actor.

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I'm in control of my musical career, which means more than awards and record sales. And that freedom is exactly what my dad fought for, too.

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That's the thing I love the most - making records and creating new things. That's always the thing that grabbed me. Making records is the thing that I really love.

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There was something about Hank Williams, Jr. that I really latched onto from an early age.

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I misfired and said some things in the past about people, namely John Mayer. And I didn't have the guts to apologize.

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My dad never liked labels, and neither do I.

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I've had my fair share of words being twisted and articles being sliced and diced.

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Anything I write is going to be autobiographical and true to some degree.

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I think the first older artist I related to and loved was Bowie.

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I can't get booked on the Fourth of July, or it'll be, 'Do you want to open for the opener for Toby Keith?' Hell, no.

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