Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" Everybody always tells you what an awesome and unique experience being a parent is. Words can never do the feeling justice. "

Related Quotes:

" I've always made music that was representative of real life. "

" Country has become too homogenized and too commercial. It has lost what makes it special. It's great that it's popular, but then it starts to become watered down. "

" When we go out there, I want to be the act that, no matter who's in that crowd, they've never seen a better act than me. I'm gonna empty the tank. "

" I really love pizza after midnight. "

" There's a roots nature to Appalachia - the origins of folk and bluegrass. I know guys there who are some of the best players I've ever heard but are playing on their porch tonight because they've never chased success. There's simplicity to how they live and what they care about. "

" The most important thing for me as an artist is having an identity. "

" I think right now, you've seen these artists pop up over the last decade who've flirted with branching together a lot of different kinds of music. Some of them have been huge, and sold millions of records. And I think over time it's become a little bit of what the industry can be. "

" With bullying and all the stuff going on, words are very important. Words can be more hurtful than anything physically. I got little kids, and it's common sense when you're raising them that the main thing is how you talk to people, and how you treat people. Sometimes I think the world forgets that as we get older. "

" The Wall Street Dow Jones up and down thing that's moving when the stock market's open? That thing freaks me out. It's up, it's down, it's just maddening to me. I guess I'm such a super-focused kind of person that I get distracted really easy. I'll watch that thing, and it's like I'm losing money, I'm getting money. It's just crazy. "

" When I feel like every day when I get up I'm writing songs, that's the time to make a record. "

" Coming up in bars and clubs, I would play anything that had a $20 bill attached to it. I did 'Like a Virgin' in a bar one time for a hundred bucks. "

" Bob Seger was a huge inspiration. "

" I was in Iowa one time, and I kept trying to fire up the crowd, and I kept saying, 'How's Ohio doing?' For some reason, they just weren't coming around! "

" I've played shows with injuries before but unfortunately cannot overcome having no voice. "

" To me, the most powerful people in this country, politically, are mayors. If you took all the mayors of the 25 biggest cities and you got them together, you could do more on that level than you ever could through the bureaucracy in Washington. "

" My dad was in furniture for 35 years. He got run out of furniture when everything went to China, went overseas. Manufacturing in the country broke down. Everything left. "

" Life doesn't get more real than having a newborn at home. "

" If I wanted the ticket to be a $200 ticket, I'd have made it a $200 ticket, but I don't want it to be that. "

" I think we make too many records. One record a year is crazy to me. But some people have to sell tickets. The label has to meet their quarterly number: 'We need a record a year.' All of a sudden, the tail's wagging the dog. It's not the music; it's everything else making the music. That's just backwards. It's wrong. "

" When I'm cutting a tree, if I'm thinking about anything other than that 40-foot oak tree... I'm a dead man. It's a therapy thing for me. "

" Once your career becomes about something other than the music, then that's what it is. I'll never make that mistake. "

" I grew up in North Carolina, and they have a soft drink called Sun Drop. I love the diet version of it. It's the greatest thing on the face of the earth. I always have it in my fridge - bus fridge and home fridge. "

" I'm not an early riser; I'm a crack-of-noon guy. "

" The stigma with country is it's not cool. That's wrong. Country is very cool. I look at award shows, I look at how country is represented. Country is represented with an asterisk. We have to perform collaborations. We have to perform a tribute. We can't perform by ourselves. "

" I signed a baby's head one time, which I thought was an odd situation. I had a guy show me a tattoo one time, and he wanted me to sign the tattoo. So I signed the tattoo, and he went across the street and had the signature tattooed. "

" I have a new hobby and it's pretty much logging. "

" I can't stand making records. "

" I'd still stand in line all day to get into an AC/DC show, because that was the one show when I was younger that kind of changed my life. Because it was a little wrong. I think I was 14 or 15, first concert without the parents, you know, and they were all worried because we were going to an AC/DC show, and it was an amphitheater. "

" My favorite artists are the ones that I can take their eight or ten albums, and I can see the arc of their life. "

" I want to be the guy out there on the edge. "