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" 'Dirt On My Boots' is a very different song. I heard the melody, and I heard the lyrics, and I heard the drive of that song. I totally related. It was kinda me when I was on my bulldozer working for my dad. "

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" There's been a lot of wedding songs and proposals. It's cool because when they play it at weddings so, it means a lot to them. That's a big deal. They're always going to remember 'Head Over Boots' as played at their wedding. "

Jon Pardi

Cool

Boots

Wedding

" I can be a traditionalist but also play with Luke Bryan and get the crowd to go crazy. I think that mix is a lot of what has kept me going and kept people fired up about the music. "

" What I can feel the most and what I can remember the most are the melodies I want to write to. "

" You gotta have a good beat to survive in modern country in general. Everyone wants to feel good, laugh, dance, and cry. But at the same time, they all want it to sound happy. "

" I love the story of the guy coming to Nashville and then kind of getting set down and told, 'This is how the town works,' which, I've totally been there. But the coolest thing about 'Out of Style' is it's a song within a song. "

" People out west love country music. "

" If you can take a piece of life and put it in a song, it's going to be a good song - especially if it's from the heart. "

" I just have fun on stage. There's nothing premolded out there. I try to always do something different. "

" I was writing songs by 12 and had a band by 14. "

" There's so many great people in Country Radio, and I appreciate all the support they've given me. "

Jon Pardi

People

Great

" My grandmother loved country music, and she's the one who really got me into country music. She had George Strait tapes, a bunch of them. I remember listening to tapes, taking them out, the covers and the back. "

" There's a connection when people are dancing, laughing, and singing, and that definitely happens with 'Head Over Boots.' "

" I chose to be this guy. It's who I want to be, and it's always been me - just keepin' it country. "

" I always want to just stay humble, and I always want to keep climbing. "

" We're boot-friendly here. "

Jon Pardi

Here

" I'm helping country sound a little more country. "

Jon Pardi

Sound

Country

" California is one of the most country-est states there is. We're really country. "

" 'Swagger' would be the word for 'Dirt On My Boots.' With the real funky drum loop and the ganjo rolling down, and then the fiddles and the guitar and steel, it really took an old school style where it's fiddle, steel, guitar, and mixed it with a drum loop. "

" I'm trying to write songs to appeal to everybody. "

" A lot of my fans, and a lot of country music fans, they still wear boots. "

" I always want to have the traditional country soul while meeting the new standards of country music. "

" For my shows, I don't play too many slow songs. "

" I've really been studying lyrics, printing out lyrics to songs I love and reading them like a letter. "

Jon Pardi

Love

Studying

" I'm more of a songwriter. I love writing songs. I love writing my songs. It's always been writing for me, and it makes it different when you're writing for yourself. "

Jon Pardi

Love

Always

" I love having those lyrics that at first make you think it's about one thing, but it's really about something so much more. "

" We travel so much as touring musicians and artists that sometimes, when you hear a great song that you really think could be on your project, you go ahead and record it instead of try to write it. "

" Take everything you can from what people say. Keep going and stick to your instincts. And what your soul tells you to do, use that. "

" I was a huge Garth Brooks fan. "

" I'd like to start a tradition of getting No. 1s - how 'bout that? "

" 'Head Over Boots' is a shuffle, but it's more of a Motown laid-back shuffle than, say, a Dwight Yoakam shuffle. "