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" I like driving around town and listening to new records. "
Hunter Hayes
Listening
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" A bass player has to think and play like a bass player. A drummer has to play and think like a drummer, and stay out of the way of the vocalist. The guitar player has to respect everybody else. "
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" Every time I take a photo, it goes into SnapSeed. Even if it's just a price tag on something, it still goes into SnapSeed, and I start editing it. I'm not a photographer, so I need all the help I can get when it comes to make a picture look cool. "
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" Music is by no means something I was like, 'I'm going to make a career out of this!' It's the only thing I know how to do, so it was more like, 'I hope to God I can make a career out of this!' "
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" I'm in my dream world. "
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" I hope people half my age and twice my age will listen to my music - I want it to live forever and for my audience to feel like they have a friend in my music. Music is a spirit. It heals. It's an amazing thing to be loved and appreciated, and sometimes, music has not just been my best friend, it's been my only friend. "
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" I could be myself. I'm very shy and awkward. I think the best thing is to embrace it. "
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" All my band members were old enough to be my dad. It was like this family vibe. "
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" I struggled with feeling confident for a long time, but I think it's important to be strong and not compromise for anyone or a relationship - I'm drawn to that. "
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" Yes, I did lock myself in my room for about two years and write some songs and things like that. But I don't feel like I missed out on a whole lot. "
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" When I was in high school, I had binders with pictures of tour buses. "
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" My favorite song depends on the day, what I'm going through, what I'm feeling. "
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" If I could make noise with anything, I was going to. "
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" I'm naturally shy, so the social media thing is new to me. I haven't really figured out how my voice sounds on social media, you know? I don't want to tweet everyday just for the sake of tweeting. I want to make sure whatever I do there is honest. Social media can very quickly get fake, and I don't want to be that guy. "
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" Writing by myself, I spread that out more. I'll spend more time on a song then. I'm more critical about it, because there's no one else in the room to tell me, 'That's really not translating. I'm not getting what you're saying.' So, I'm constantly rewriting it, thinking, 'No, that's fine,' and going back. "
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Saying
Thinking
" Singing live is my favorite. When people sing along to your songs, the circle is complete. "
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" There is a bit of a movement as far as younger people in country music. That is cool because people are saying things like, 'I didn't listen to country music until so-and-so came along.' And I'm like, 'Yeah! Now you know why I love it.' "
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Cool
Know
Love
" To be the name on somebody's shirt that they've made themselves in preparation for one of your shows - it doesn't get much cooler than that. "
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Shirt
Your
Name
" I am grateful I got the chance to meet Stevie Wonder! He's like royalty to me and is one of my biggest inspirations. "
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Chance
Meet
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" 'Wanted' is about a girl I was friends with, but at the time it was teetering on the edge of something more. I wanted to show her that I really cared about her. 'Wanted' was my way of saying, 'we're friends and have a great foundation, and this could be something really special.' "
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Girl
" All the people I hung out with were musicians. "
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" I am, by nature, a guitar player... I learned all of these other instruments around that, and around the theory that I built learning the guitar. "
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" I don't have a girlfriend. I don't know if I have a type, but I really like girls who are driven. I really care about music, so I like it when a girl really cares about something too. Whatever it is they are into, I'll be their biggest fan. "
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" I started writing when I was around 6. I say 'writing,' but it was really just making up stuff! I started writing and doing my own thing. I didn't really know what a demo was or anything like that, so I started getting interested in studio gear and started learning about one instrument at a time. My first instrument was an accordion. "
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Learning
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" My celebrity crush is not gonna find out who my celebrity crush is anytime soon. I'm so nervous! I may keep that to myself because if I do meet her and she already knows about it, that could be awkward. "
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" As a new artist - I don't care who you talk to - I think everyone would agree, it's hard to get your expectations right. "
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" Country music busts the wall between performer and audience. There's a connection because there's a vulnerability, a confessional quality, to so much of the songwriting. Those lyrics take you in. "
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Connection
" I was born with this love for music, and I say 'born with' because I don't really remember a day waking up and deciding that I'm going do to music. It's been all I've ever done and all I've ever wanted to do. "
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" I'm from Louisiana, and that's where I got my start, in Cajun music. There's a huge music scene down there centered around our culture. Those are people that are not making music for a living. They are making music for the fun of it. And I think that's the best way I could have been introduced to music. "
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" I don't even have a type, I don't think. My type is just whoever can get along with me. "
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" Robert Duvall saw me playing at a restaurant in Louisiana and invited me to be an extra in his movie 'The Apostle.' He gave me a guitar for my sixth birthday, and I thought that was the coolest thing in the world. "
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