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" Getting a beginner publishing deal really helped me gain the skills. I just kept writing and writing. You just take everything out of life and turn it into an idea or a melody or a song and find the best writers you can to write with that fit you and know what you want to do. "

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" I love traditional country music, and I feel like there's a need for it and a want for it. But I enjoy everybody in country music. "

Jon Pardi

Love

Music

Need

" 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. "

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

" 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 grew up in rural Dixon, CA, and I've been hunting with my father ever since I was a young boy. He taught me how to hunt and shoot, firearm safety, and have respect for the outdoors. "

Jon Pardi

Respect

Outdoors

" People out west love country music. "

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

" You've got these guys that have this fresh, street, hip-hop country that sells a zillion. Keep doing that. I'll keep doing my stuff. We'll see how it goes. "

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

Jon Pardi

People

Great

" I like hearing fiddles, steel guitar, acoustics up loud - really rock & roll stuff but with a country sound behind it. That's just who I am. I'm not trying to prove a point; I am just doing what I like. But I don't have any problems with any other artist coming in and doing their own thing. "

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

Jon Pardi

Sound

Country

" 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'm a guy who doesn't know the name of the chord, but I know that it sounds good. "

" I was even more country in my college-band days. "

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

" You gotta do both. You've got to be on those big tours, and you've got to be in the clubs. "

" 'Dirt on My Boots' was pegged as the second single from 'California Sunrise' from the get-go, and we felt like it was just a fun song to go with. "

" I've been able to carve my way out with lyrics and melodies. "

" It's been so great to have an album people believe in. "

" I have a great band of great guys. We're a lot of fun. "

" My California sunrise, there's a real mist in the air. I think of the mountains. You can smell the farm fields. You can smell the dirt and the lights and the whole sun. "

" Radio has had my back since 'Missin' You Crazy,' which was a very traditional kind of song. "

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

" 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. "

" '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. "

" I will never, ever speak out against somebody who is living the dream and doing what they want to do, because that's what I'm doing. "

" 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. "

" As a songwriter, you always want to search for something that's right in front of you that you can twist into something new. "

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

" It's always a good feeling to be recognized for something. "