Tyler Childers Quotes

Tyler Childers

Profession : Singer

Birth : June 21, 1991

Sometimes you get the pinball machine and sometimes the pinball machine gets you.

Tyler Childers

Storytelling in Appalachian culture - it runs deep. You have these communities and families that, for a long time, were isolated, and if you did have time off after working to keep everything going, you'd sit around and just yak, just talk and tell tall tales and flat-out lies and try to one-up the guy who just told a story.

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Life is hard enough without being worried about the smallest interaction with a public servant.

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I've grown up in church and Gospel music was a big thing - and Bluegrass - but I just think of that music my buddies and I listened to growing up in the hills, it was as meshed together as what people now call Americana.

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Love each other, no exceptions.

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A lot of commercial country does speak to people in some way. It's more of a ear worm or a melody that's really catchy. That's something that you certainly want, but it's only one piece of the criteria for a good song.

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We've all witnessed violent acts of police brutality happen around the nation that have gone unaddressed.

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A writer can write an essay, but the writer can never control how that essay is interpreted by the reader.

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If your hobby is hunting, at the end of it you get to eat what you catch, which is awesome.

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If your hobby is playing sports, at the end of it you might get a few concussions.

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The voice that I want to write in is a voice for me and mine and where I grew up.

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My first song was a hardcore knock-off of 'Tangled Up in Blue.' It was based on a story maybe I had heard before. I was 13. The woman died in the end - she was sleeping on the railroad tracks. Pretty edgy, ya know.

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Born Again' is a love song. It's just these two people - two forms of energy - meeting and losing each other and finding each other again and coming together and being the same thing.

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Songwriting is writing about the human experience.

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We can start looking for ways to preserve our heritage outside lazily defending a flag with history steeped in racism and treason.

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Maybe I can bring my own perspective and connect with people from my home area by giving them my two cents of a different angle.

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Purgatory is hell, with hope.

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I'm a creature of habit.

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The problem with country is we've turned the props into the play. Let's not just Solo cup and pickup truck it to death. Let's handle this in a smart way. Nobody is thinking about lyrical content, or how we're moving people, or what's going on in the background of their minds.

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That's what music is supposed to do. It's supposed to help people out.

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