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" I love playing music. There's no way I could do anything else. "
Chris Young
Music
Love
Anything
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" 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. "
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" I go home, and there's dust on everything because I'm never there. "
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" I'm a big fan of breakfast food. Literally, the simplest thing in the world - if you can scramble eggs without burning them, I'll eat them. It doesn't matter what time of the day it is. "
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" I played a funeral convention once. York Casket Company pays well, in case anyone's wondering! "
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" The only piece of advice I've ever given anybody is learn to write songs and write as many songs as you can. Because it's never gonna hurt, and when you run into that problem of, 'God, I don't know what I want to say,' or the opposite problem of, 'I know exactly what I want to say, but no one has written it,' then you can just go write it yourself. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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Theory
Always
Best
" It's amazing to me how often the answer to making something sound better is to play something less. "
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Answer
" I'm really loud. I can't sing softly. "
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Really
Sing
Softly
" My standing gig in college was playing the El Chico patio on Murfreesboro Road. I got $100, tips, and free quesadillas. "
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Standing
Road
" 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. "
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You
Audience
" 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. "
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Tree
Looking
Growing Up
" I don't think breakups are ever easy for anybody. If they are, they aren't much of a breakup. "
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Much
Think
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" I really love something that's strong vocally and a little more difficult to sing because it's fun. "
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Sing
More
Love
" 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. "
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Cash
Growing Up
Picture
" 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. "
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Better
Up
Always
" My favorite part is, once a song is out there to the public, having someone come up and tell their own story about why one of your songs resonated with them. It's an incredible feeling. "
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Story
Feeling
Own
" 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. "
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Growing Up
Growing
Think
" 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
" 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. "
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Home
Writing
Funny
" 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. "
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Mind
Listen
Feet
" The only thing I want to be known as is a country singer. I want people to hear it and go, 'That's country!' "
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" 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. "
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Practice
People
Me
" 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. "
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Artist
Rise
Fall
" 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. "
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Friends
Me
Friday
" 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. "
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Patience
Me
You
" Your family are people you lean on and learn from. When I told my family I wanted to do music, they were really supportive. "
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People
You
Your
" Social media is a very, very powerful tool. It also gives power to tools. "
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Power
Media
" 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. "
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