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" I'm helping country sound a little more country. "
Jon Pardi
More
Sound
Country
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" You gotta do both. You've got to be on those big tours, and you've got to be in the clubs. "
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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. "
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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 always want to have the traditional country soul while meeting the new standards of country music. "
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" As a songwriter, we're looking for a good story, and we're always looking to push the limits. "
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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 love coming back around Northern California. "
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" I'm just thankful I'm surrounded by good people. "
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" I'm mixing country with kind of a modern twist to it. "
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" I'm trying to write songs to appeal to everybody. "
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" My California sunrise, there's a real mist in the air. I think of the mountains. You can smell the farm fields. You can smell the dirt and the lights and the whole sun. "
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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 writing songs that I want to sing. "
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" Take everything you can from what people say. Keep going and stick to your instincts. And what your soul tells you to do, use that. "
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" 'Dirt on My Boots' was pegged as the second single from 'California Sunrise' from the get-go, and we felt like it was just a fun song to go with. "
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" I always want to just stay humble, and I always want to keep climbing. "
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" My grandmother loved country music, and she's the one who really got me into country music. She had George Strait tapes, a bunch of them. I remember listening to tapes, taking them out, the covers and the back. "
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" 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. "
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Good
Going
" 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. "
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" There's a connection when people are dancing, laughing, and singing, and that definitely happens with 'Head Over Boots.' "
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" I love performing, and if I didn't love it, I wouldn't be doing it. "
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Doing
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" I'm a guy who doesn't know the name of the chord, but I know that it sounds good. "
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" 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. "
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" Radio has had my back since 'Missin' You Crazy,' which was a very traditional kind of song. "
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" I like hearing fiddles, steel guitar, acoustics up loud - really rock & roll stuff but with a country sound behind it. That's just who I am. I'm not trying to prove a point; I am just doing what I like. But I don't have any problems with any other artist coming in and doing their own thing. "
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" '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. "
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" I was a huge Garth Brooks fan. "
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