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" I have a huge chip on my shoulder. "
Eric Church
Shoulder
Chip
Huge
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" I went to my dad when I was 17 and said, 'I want to be a country music star.' Which every dad loves to hear. And he said, 'I want you to go to college.' So we had a discussion. And I'm pretty stubborn. I'm a lot like him. And he said, 'If you go to college and graduate, I'll pay your first six months of rent in Nashville.' So he bribed me. "
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" 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. "
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" I want to be the guy out there on the edge. "
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" 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. "
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" My favorite thing is to go out in the arenas, like, an hour before doors, and run the concourse. And you get that anticipation. You smell the popcorn. You see the people tapping the kegs. And nobody is in there yet but you, but you feel it. It's my favorite thing on tour. "
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" Maybe it's oldest-child syndrome, but I have always been competitive, even as a kid with sports. It spills into my career. "
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Kid
Always
Competitive
" Country music is the song that speaks to the American condition. It's middle America. Eight out of 10 people. Maybe it's not the No. 1 choice, but they listen to country. "
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American
America
Music
" I'm not an early riser; I'm a crack-of-noon guy. "
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Guy
Early
" 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. "
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Dead
Me
Tree
" I really love pizza after midnight. "
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Midnight
After
Love
" The most important thing for me as an artist is having an identity. "
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Artist
Identity
Important
" 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. "
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Think
You
Music
" I am very thankful and blessed to have a healthy and happy baby boy and baby mama. "
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Am
Blessed
Thankful
" I grew up listening to The Band. I love Lowell George. I love Little Feat, and I was listening to some Springsteen, some of the deep album cuts. I just like the looseness of that kind of music. It all feels like they did it in one take. They let whatever happened happen. If it felt good, they kept it. "
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Band
Music
Love
" 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. "
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Situation
Time
Thought
" My favorite artists are the ones that I can take their eight or ten albums, and I can see the arc of their life. "
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I Can
Eight
Life
" 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. "
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Made
Ticket
Want
" Once your career becomes about something other than the music, then that's what it is. I'll never make that mistake. "
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Never
Career
Music
" When I feel like every day when I get up I'm writing songs, that's the time to make a record. "
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Every Day
Writing
Up
" Bob Seger was a huge inspiration. "
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Bob
Inspiration
Huge
" 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. "
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Lost
Country
Too
" I've always made music that was representative of real life. "
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Real
Real Life
Always
" 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. "
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Empty
Matter
Me
" 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! "
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Trying
Time
Saying
" 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. "
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Furniture
Country
Run
" I'm going to do everything I can to keep from being mainstream. "
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Being
Keep
I Can
" Looking back on my career, some of the hardest times - eight people at a show, 12 people on a bus - were some of the most fun. "
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Fun
Back
People
" I don't care if I starve. "
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Starve
Care
" I've always believed that you put everything into making the best record you can make, regardless of how you release it and regardless of the press and the hype - that the music wins. "
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Music
You
Everything
" The key to songwriting is just to be able to observe, and put yourself in situations to be around people, and let those ideas come to you. "
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Key
Ideas
Yourself