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" I was four days old when I went to my first bluegrass festival. "
Ashley McBryde
Days
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Four
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" Not everybody is going to like your songs. But you probably wouldn't hang out with those people anyway. "
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" In bluegrass, there's a lot of joke-telling and a lot of banter between bandmates. It's like improv or watching the 'Carol Burnett Show.' "
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" When I was 12, I wrote a legit song - about having my heart broken, of course, because I was 12 years old going on 40. I sang the song for my mom, and she asked, 'Where did you get that song?' I told her I wrote it, and she said, 'Really?' She looked at my grandparents and just said, 'Oh, boy.' "
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" If you've ever been in a bar with a bunch of old sailors and see a guy that has an eagle tattooed across his chest, that guy has seen some stuff. "
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" Everything I ever needed came out of a radio and a dashboard. My Mount Rushmore of what was cool came out of a radio - Trisha Yearwood, Patty Loveless, Mark Chesnutt. "
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" A secret gets bigger and nastier the longer you don't talk about it. "
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" Your fame and your success moves much more rapidly than your ability to fund it. "
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" I'm little. I'm pale. I'm not strong. But bad things are scared of me. I think it's because my dad was a preacher growing up, and I was raised in the Church of Christ. "
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" As I got a little older, I discovered Lori McKenna and Patty Griffin and found out how many other tools we have as songwriters, that there's storytelling and there's ear candy, and that there is a place where they meet, too, and both of those women are really good at doing that. "
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" There's a few people that I write with that we don't stop until one of us cries. "
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" The thing about bikers and truckers is they're just regular folks, and that's definitely my demographic. "
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" I was kind of always the underdog. "
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" I was lucky to grow up in the '90s, when we had just as many strong female artists as male artists. That's a world I would like to live in again. "
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" Your love is your love. It doesn't matter whether you're 18 or 68; there can still be someone that makes you feel that way. "
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" Sometimes choosing to leave a mistake on a track is way cooler than going back and nailing it. "
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" I have a big love for jazz music. The only thing I hated about singing with a jazz band was having to wear a gown to everything. "
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" Being called a new artist doesn't bother me at all. "
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" My hair turned gray when I was 24. "
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" I get recognized more for my tattoos than my face. "
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