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" I grew up loving Vince Gill. That guy sounds just like his record - or better than his record. I've always been such a fan. "
Chris Young
Better
Up
Always
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" When I was making my second record, I was in studio, and I was like, 'No more ballads! Absolutely not!' And somebody walked in with 'The Man I Wanna Be' and I heard it and was like, 'Ah, crap!' "
Chris Young
Man
Heard
Like
" I think the biggest way of connecting with people is through your music and kind of saying what you want to say as an artist. And hopefully, you're making something that someone's going to be like, 'This is my favorite song.' That's always your goal, I think, anybody in any genre. "
Chris Young
People
Goal
Think
" My standing gig in college was playing the El Chico patio on Murfreesboro Road. I got $100, tips, and free quesadillas. "
Chris Young
College
Standing
Road
" I don't think breakups are ever easy for anybody. If they are, they aren't much of a breakup. "
Chris Young
Much
Think
Breakup
" We didn't have a whole lot of cash growing up. My mom was a single parent for a while before my stepdad came into the picture. "
Chris Young
Cash
Growing Up
Picture
" Everybody influences everybody else, in my opinion. There are different trends in music all the time. No matter who starts them, if it's a true trend in the music, it ends up influencing other people as well. "
Chris Young
People
Well
True
" For awhile there, I kind of hit the plateau. Anytime you do that as an artist, one of two things can happen... you're either going to start to fall back off, or you're gonna start to rise. "
Chris Young
Artist
Rise
Fall
" My biggest ritual is writing at home more than on the road. I do very little writing on the road. Actually, it's funny to bring this into it, but one thing I always do is have a cup of coffee. I drink the most coffee when I'm writing songs. "
Chris Young
Home
Writing
Funny
" I write a lot of my music, but not all of it. I have always subscribed to the 'best song wins' theory when making an album. "
Chris Young
Theory
Always
Best
" I'm really loud. I can't sing softly. "
Chris Young
Really
Sing
Softly
" I don't want to be the person who has the gigantic headlines: 'Look Who So-and-So Is Dating Now.' That, to me, isn't really who I am. "
Chris Young
Look
Want
Dating
" Your family are people you lean on and learn from. When I told my family I wanted to do music, they were really supportive. "
Chris Young
People
You
Your
" I played a funeral convention once. York Casket Company pays well, in case anyone's wondering! "
Chris Young
Funeral
Company
Wondering
" Social media is a very, very powerful tool. It also gives power to tools. "
Chris Young
Powerful
Power
Media
" If you aren't already a songwriter, try it. When you can say what you want to say, in your own words, it's incredibly easy to show an audience who you are. "
Chris Young
Try
You
Audience
" If you were to ask me when I was 17 if I was mad because I didn't have a deal, I would have probably said, 'Yeah.' Now I'm so glad I got it when I got it. People tell you to be patient and wait. Patience is not a virtue of mine, but I think everything definitely happened the right way for me. "
Chris Young
Patience
Me
You
" I'm a huge fantasy football fan. "
Chris Young
Fan
Huge
Football
" Everybody has their favorite sad songs. That's part of what I love so much about country music. Country music is never afraid to go with a sad song. "
Chris Young
Song
Sad
Country
" Everybody's like, 'You're tall. You didn't play basketball?' They asked me when I was a freshman in high school, and basketball practice was the same time a lot of stuff happened with choir. And I picked choir, which, normally, people would scratch their heads at, but it worked out okay. "
Chris Young
Practice
People
Me
" My family and I are very close, and they mean more than anything to me, but I'm also the kind of guy who likes to go out with my friends and have a good time on Friday nights. "
Chris Young
Friends
Me
Friday
" I really love something that's strong vocally and a little more difficult to sing because it's fun. "
Chris Young
Sing
More
Love
" There's probably a couple someones that are gonna hear the songs and go, 'I think that might have been about me,' or, 'I know it's about me.' I do play that pretty close to the vest. I don't think I'm ever gonna write a song and drop somebody's name in it. "
Chris Young
Me
Know
Song
" We always pray before we go on stage. It's just something that I've always done. For me, it's a big thing, and the guys in the band seem to appreciate doing it, so we do it at every show. "
Chris Young
Band
Doing
Done
" Some of my favorite records growing up were Christmas albums. The ones I liked best were the albums that you could listen to from start to finish. You could put them on while you're decorating the tree or driving around looking at Christmas lights. "
Chris Young
Tree
Looking
Growing Up
" The only thing I want to be known as is a country singer. I want people to hear it and go, 'That's country!' "
Chris Young
Country
People
Only
" Any time I'm trying to find that groove on a big tempo song, I go back and listen to some Aerosmith records. 'Love in an Elevator,' 'Rag Doll,' all that stuff was really great music. It's something that I still dig and go back and listen to. "
Chris Young
Song
Music
Love
" I studied and sang lot of jazz when I was growing up. I think that plays a little bit into some of the things I do vocally, notes that I pick in chords. "
Chris Young
Growing Up
Growing
Think
" For every single show you do, make sure you go out and literally try to beat what you did the day before. It's something that you can incorporate into everything you do. If you're constantly trying to beat your best, over time it will help you grow. "
Chris Young
Time
You
Best
" One of the first records I bought for myself was a Keith Whitley record. I still love the 'L.A. to Miami' album. There were so many things on there - 'Miami, My Amy,' 'Ten Feet Away,' 'Nobody in His Right Mind Would've Left Her.' I can put that album on repeat and listen. "
Chris Young
Mind
Listen
Feet
" In my opinion, that's one of the hardest things to do in songwriting: crafting a song that speaks to you but, at its core, is a simple concept. "
Chris Young
Song
Songwriting
You