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" I chose to be this guy. It's who I want to be, and it's always been me - just keepin' it country. "
Jon Pardi
Always
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" I'd like to start a tradition of getting No. 1s - how 'bout that? "
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" I have a great band of great guys. We're a lot of fun. "
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" I had a drummer I really wanted to move to Nashville with me, and he's like, 'Naw, I can't go, man.' He never could pull the trigger. It's a big move. You just gotta be diehard - you gotta give it your all, you know. "
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" I'm writing songs that I want to sing. "
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" 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. "
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" I'm mixing country with kind of a modern twist to it. "
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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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" It's been so great to have an album people believe in. "
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" I love coming back around Northern California. "
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" At 14, I was in my own little classic rock country band. Then, after high school, I started another band called Northern Comfort. That was based out of Chico, Calif. "
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" I'm a guy who doesn't know the name of the chord, but I know that it sounds good. "
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" I played the bars in northern California since I was 18. We played at least three hours, and there's no which-way about it: That definitely helped. "
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" I love performing, and if I didn't love it, I wouldn't be doing it. "
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" A lot of my fans, and a lot of country music fans, they still wear boots. "
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" Having two back-to-back No. 1's is unbelievable. "
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" My music is my No. 1, and I've got people who believe in me and keep me going. I'm thankful. "
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" 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. "
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" We're boot-friendly here. "
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" Sing your heart out and write the best song you possible can. "
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" What I can feel the most and what I can remember the most are the melodies I want to write to. "
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" There's a connection when people are dancing, laughing, and singing, and that definitely happens with 'Head Over Boots.' "
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" '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. "
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" I'm helping country sound a little more country. "
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" 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. "
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" I was even more country in my college-band days. "
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