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" I love having those lyrics that at first make you think it's about one thing, but it's really about something so much more. "
Jon Pardi
Love
First
Think
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" I just have fun on stage. There's nothing premolded out there. I try to always do something different. "
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" I've really been studying lyrics, printing out lyrics to songs I love and reading them like a letter. "
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" I can be a traditionalist but also play with Luke Bryan and get the crowd to go crazy. I think that mix is a lot of what has kept me going and kept people fired up about the music. "
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" I grew up in rural Dixon, CA, and I've been hunting with my father ever since I was a young boy. He taught me how to hunt and shoot, firearm safety, and have respect for the outdoors. "
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" I'm helping country sound a little more country. "
Jon Pardi
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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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Rock
" I love coming back around Northern California. "
Jon Pardi
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Coming
" As a songwriter, we're looking for a good story, and we're always looking to push the limits. "
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" There's been a lot of wedding songs and proposals. It's cool because when they play it at weddings so, it means a lot to them. That's a big deal. They're always going to remember 'Head Over Boots' as played at their wedding. "
Jon Pardi
Cool
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" We travel so much as touring musicians and artists that sometimes, when you hear a great song that you really think could be on your project, you go ahead and record it instead of try to write it. "
Jon Pardi
Musicians
Great
Travel
" If you can take a piece of life and put it in a song, it's going to be a good song - especially if it's from the heart. "
Jon Pardi
Heart
Good
Going
" You gotta have a good beat to survive in modern country in general. Everyone wants to feel good, laugh, dance, and cry. But at the same time, they all want it to sound happy. "
Jon Pardi
Good
Happy
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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. "
Jon Pardi
Know
Man
You
" I was even more country in my college-band days. "
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Country
Days
Even
" I can play with Florida Georgia Line. We can throw down with people. I think that's what sets me apart. "
Jon Pardi
Think
Down
I Can
" A lot of my fans, and a lot of country music fans, they still wear boots. "
Jon Pardi
Fans
Country
Boots
" You've got these guys that have this fresh, street, hip-hop country that sells a zillion. Keep doing that. I'll keep doing my stuff. We'll see how it goes. "
Jon Pardi
Hip-Hop
Country
You
" I always want to have the traditional country soul while meeting the new standards of country music. "
Jon Pardi
Soul
Want
New
" '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. "
Jon Pardi
Drive
Boots
Working
" It's always a good feeling to be recognized for something. "
Jon Pardi
Something
Good
Always
" I'm mixing country with kind of a modern twist to it. "
Jon Pardi
Kind
Mixing
Modern
" 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. "
Jon Pardi
Want
Speak
Never
" I started playing guitar by the time I was 9. "
Jon Pardi
Time
Playing
Guitar
" I lean traditional, but 'Head Over Boots,' it's pretty country. "
Jon Pardi
Over
Pretty
Boots
" I'm just thankful I'm surrounded by good people. "
Jon Pardi
People
Good
Thankful
" There's so much you can learn from being on a big tour and so much you can learn from being in the clubs. "
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Much
Tour
Being
" '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. "
Jon Pardi
Style
Boots
Down
" You gotta do both. You've got to be on those big tours, and you've got to be in the clubs. "
Jon Pardi
You
Gotta
Those
" What I can feel the most and what I can remember the most are the melodies I want to write to. "
Jon Pardi
Remember
Feel
I Can
" 'Head Over Boots' is a shuffle, but it's more of a Motown laid-back shuffle than, say, a Dwight Yoakam shuffle. "
Jon Pardi
Boots
Than
Say