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" I've never felt the least bit entitled to airplay. Each spin I get means the world to me. "

Frankie Ballard

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" It's amazing how the biggest things in our lives - when we're around the fireplace and talking about them when we're older - the things that matter the most to us start off amazingly small and in a humble way. "

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" My biggest turn-on is a fine pair of athletic legs. A girl with a fine pair of athletic legs who is not afraid to show them off. Turn-offs? A girl who doesn't like country music is a huge turn-off, and girls who don't take care of themselves. "

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" Before you have a hit song, all you're doing is banging on the door and screaming, 'I've got something I want to play...' Now with the hit songs, they're like, 'Okay man, we're listening. Whaddya got for us?' "

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" That's what music-making is: a dialogue. "

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" I believe it's possible to have hit songs and popular music that's recorded by human beings. "

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" I collect hotel keys. I hope to make something out of them someday. It would be cool to make a bar at my house and, like, the bar is all the hotel keys: lay them down and put glass over them. Or maybe even a coffee table. "

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" I want to be the guy with the fresh new sound. I can remember as a kid thinking about a DJ going, 'Ladies and gentlemen, here's the new one from Frankie Ballard. He's the guy with that hot new sound.' That's the dream. "

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" Life is relationships and what we're trying to do together. And please, that's what people have been singing about forever. That's what the blues is all about - the good, the bad, the fun, all of it - that lies there in between a man and a woman. "

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" I like going to the movies by myself. I love going late at night when there's barely anyone in the theater. It's very relaxing. "

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" All my influences go into a pot like a big ole stew, and it tastes like all the years I spent trying to play the guitar like Stevie Ray Vaughn. It tastes like Allman Brothers and Lynyrd Skynyrd. And if it comes out bluesy, then so be it. "

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" My dad is a big Outlaw country guy - Johnny Cash, Johnny Horton, Waylon, Willie. He loves Elvis and turned me onto Elvis. He was always playing me stuff. He and I would sing and entertain the family. We'd have a little skit on Thanksgiving or whatever. "

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" I've never been a morning person, ever. I hate the morning. I have more energy at night. "

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" I definitely respect the men and women who came before me and how much those people gave to me musically. "

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" I don't really have any hobbies. "

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" I'm a huge Travis Tritt fan. I'm a big Southern rock guy. "

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" I probably would have never made it through college without baseball, so I'm thankful for that. I really am proud that I got to play on that level. "

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" I've always been a band guy. That's my wheelhouse. That's what I do. "

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" I'm a Detroit Tigers fan through and through. "

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" I started off as a bar band. We played ZZ Top, Bob Seger, Waylon Jennings, the Rolling Stones - everything and anything people wanted to hear. You're not really selling yourself back then; you're selling beer. "

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" I'd like to wrestle an alligator and fly a fighter jet. "

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" I was born in Battle Creek, Michigan, about 20 miles from Kalamazoo. I lived around there for about seven years. That community is one that I really care about. "

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" Someone might look like an overnight success, but there's a lot of hard work that goes into it, and rightfully so. That's the way it should be. There are exceptions to that rule, but in country music, people really have to pay their dues. "

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" 'You'll Accomp'ny Me' is a song I've always really cherished. The guy in that song is just so courageous. He's saying this to the girl, 'I know you've got to go do your thing, but eventually, we'll be together. I feel that strong, and I know it in my soul.' And there's something really cool about that. "

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" I've always expressed myself on guitar, and so I look at it as another voice that is available to say what you need to say. "

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" It really stresses me out to think about what other people think about me. "

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" I'm a big 'Cosby Show' fan. "

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