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" I'm not an early riser; I'm a crack-of-noon guy. "
Eric Church
Guy
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" I went to Appalachian State University, which was very bluegrass- and folk-oriented. "
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" I don't really get into that whole red-blue-conservative-liberal because I can't tell them apart. They all seem inept. So, for me, it's not something I focus on at all. I probably should be more political than I am. I just don't care. "
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" I was in Iowa one time, and I kept trying to fire up the crowd, and I kept saying, 'How's Ohio doing?' For some reason, they just weren't coming around! "
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" I would be on the 'anti-reality' show. I can't stand reality TV. I can tell you one that I absolutely would not be on, and that's 'Dancing With the Stars.' If you ever see me on that show, just please understand my family is starving to death, and things are really bad in the Church household. "
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" I want to be the guy out there on the edge. "
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" Music's cyclical. There's always that next generation that always comes along. "
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Always
Along
Generation
" If I wanted the ticket to be a $200 ticket, I'd have made it a $200 ticket, but I don't want it to be that. "
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Made
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Want
" I've played shows with injuries before but unfortunately cannot overcome having no voice. "
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Injuries
Shows
Voice
" The Wall Street Dow Jones up and down thing that's moving when the stock market's open? That thing freaks me out. It's up, it's down, it's just maddening to me. I guess I'm such a super-focused kind of person that I get distracted really easy. I'll watch that thing, and it's like I'm losing money, I'm getting money. It's just crazy. "
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Easy
Money
Me
" To me, the most powerful people in this country, politically, are mayors. If you took all the mayors of the 25 biggest cities and you got them together, you could do more on that level than you ever could through the bureaucracy in Washington. "
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Together
People
Powerful
" The town I came from really had one industry, and that was furniture. "
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Really
Industry
Had
" Life doesn't get more real than having a newborn at home. "
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Life
Home
Than
" I think we make too many records. One record a year is crazy to me. But some people have to sell tickets. The label has to meet their quarterly number: 'We need a record a year.' All of a sudden, the tail's wagging the dog. It's not the music; it's everything else making the music. That's just backwards. It's wrong. "
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People
Dog
Crazy
" Looking back on my career, some of the hardest times - eight people at a show, 12 people on a bus - were some of the most fun. "
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Fun
Back
People
" I signed a baby's head one time, which I thought was an odd situation. I had a guy show me a tattoo one time, and he wanted me to sign the tattoo. So I signed the tattoo, and he went across the street and had the signature tattooed. "
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Situation
Time
Thought
" I don't use the big video screens that a lot of other artists use because personally, I think it's kind of a crutch. I think sometimes it's like watching television as opposed to really getting involved with what is happening onstage and the people in your section. "
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Think
Sometimes
Television
" Coming up in bars and clubs, I would play anything that had a $20 bill attached to it. I did 'Like a Virgin' in a bar one time for a hundred bucks. "
Eric Church
Anything
Like
Play
" Many people have come to think they can just wake up and have things handed to them. "
Eric Church
Just
Up
People
" I grew up listening to The Band. I love Lowell George. I love Little Feat, and I was listening to some Springsteen, some of the deep album cuts. I just like the looseness of that kind of music. It all feels like they did it in one take. They let whatever happened happen. If it felt good, they kept it. "
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Band
Music
Love
" When I feel like every day when I get up I'm writing songs, that's the time to make a record. "
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Every Day
Writing
Up
" My dad was in furniture for 35 years. He got run out of furniture when everything went to China, went overseas. Manufacturing in the country broke down. Everything left. "
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Furniture
Country
Run
" I don't care if I starve. "
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Starve
Care
" I have a new hobby and it's pretty much logging. "
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New
Hobby
Much
" The stigma with country is it's not cool. That's wrong. Country is very cool. I look at award shows, I look at how country is represented. Country is represented with an asterisk. We have to perform collaborations. We have to perform a tribute. We can't perform by ourselves. "
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How
Country
Look
" Music is universal; it speaks to people's souls on the deepest level. "
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Universal
Deepest
Music
" I've always made music that was representative of real life. "
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Real
Real Life
Always
" I'd still stand in line all day to get into an AC/DC show, because that was the one show when I was younger that kind of changed my life. Because it was a little wrong. I think I was 14 or 15, first concert without the parents, you know, and they were all worried because we were going to an AC/DC show, and it was an amphitheater. "
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Know
Think
Life
" Once your career becomes about something other than the music, then that's what it is. I'll never make that mistake. "
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Never
Career
Music
" I'm not a trust-fund type. "
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Type
" Country music is the song that speaks to the American condition. It's middle America. Eight out of 10 people. Maybe it's not the No. 1 choice, but they listen to country. "
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American
America
Music