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" I have a new hobby and it's pretty much logging. "
Eric Church
New
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Much
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" 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. "
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" Bob Seger was a huge inspiration. "
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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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" 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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" 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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Me
Music
" I'm going to do everything I can to keep from being mainstream. "
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" I went to Appalachian State University, which was very bluegrass- and folk-oriented. "
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" The town I came from really had one industry, and that was furniture. "
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Had
" I have a huge chip on my shoulder. "
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Shoulder
Chip
Huge
" Everybody always tells you what an awesome and unique experience being a parent is. Words can never do the feeling justice. "
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Experience
Unique
" I've always made music that was representative of real life. "
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Real
Real Life
Always
" 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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" I don't really get into that whole red-blue-conservative-liberal because I can't tell them apart. They all seem inept. So, for me, it's not something I focus on at all. I probably should be more political than I am. I just don't care. "
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Me
Focus
Care
" 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. "
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Together
People
Powerful
" 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
" 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
" 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'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
" Music is universal; it speaks to people's souls on the deepest level. "
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Universal
Deepest
Music
" Many people have come to think they can just wake up and have things handed to them. "
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Just
Up
People
" The most important thing for me as an artist is having an identity. "
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Artist
Identity
Important
" I don't use the big video screens that a lot of other artists use because personally, I think it's kind of a crutch. I think sometimes it's like watching television as opposed to really getting involved with what is happening onstage and the people in your section. "
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Think
Sometimes
Television
" I would be on the 'anti-reality' show. I can't stand reality TV. I can tell you one that I absolutely would not be on, and that's 'Dancing With the Stars.' If you ever see me on that show, just please understand my family is starving to death, and things are really bad in the Church household. "
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Death
Me
" I want to be the guy out there on the edge. "
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Out
Want
Guy
" I've played shows with injuries before but unfortunately cannot overcome having no voice. "
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Injuries
Shows
Voice
" As far as writing, it's grown because I've really grown comfortable with who I am. "
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Comfortable
Far
I Am
" You're not gonna write a hundred songs and have a hundred entirely different ideas. It's a matter of finding the ones that are the freshest and most unique. "
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Finding
Unique
Matter
" I'm not an early riser; I'm a crack-of-noon guy. "
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Guy
Early
" 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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" 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. "
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People
World
Think