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" My favorite artists are the ones that I can take their eight or ten albums, and I can see the arc of their life. "
Eric Church
I Can
Eight
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" 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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" I've always believed that you put everything into making the best record you can make, regardless of how you release it and regardless of the press and the hype - that the music wins. "
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" 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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" You're not gonna write a hundred songs and have a hundred entirely different ideas. It's a matter of finding the ones that are the freshest and most unique. "
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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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" Many people have come to think they can just wake up and have things handed to them. "
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" Music's cyclical. There's always that next generation that always comes along. "
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" 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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" The most important thing for me as an artist is having an identity. "
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Identity
Important
" 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
Ticket
Want
" I have a new hobby and it's pretty much logging. "
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New
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Much
" 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
" I'm not a big TV guy, but I love either 'Auction Hunters' or those repo shows on truTV. It's really just glorified 'Jerry Springer' is all it is. Every now and then, it's just mindless entertainment. We'll be on the bus, and we'll laugh at it. Those are my guilty pleasures. "
Eric Church
Bus
Now
Love
" The key to songwriting is just to be able to observe, and put yourself in situations to be around people, and let those ideas come to you. "
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Key
Ideas
Yourself
" I grew up in North Carolina, and they have a soft drink called Sun Drop. I love the diet version of it. It's the greatest thing on the face of the earth. I always have it in my fridge - bus fridge and home fridge. "
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Earth
Sun
Love
" 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. "
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Anything
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Play
" 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
" I want to be the guy out there on the edge. "
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Out
Want
Guy
" 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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Me
" Music is universal; it speaks to people's souls on the deepest level. "
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Deepest
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" When we go out there, I want to be the act that, no matter who's in that crowd, they've never seen a better act than me. I'm gonna empty the tank. "
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Matter
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" I am very thankful and blessed to have a healthy and happy baby boy and baby mama. "
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Blessed
Thankful
" I've always made music that was representative of real life. "
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Real Life
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" I'm not a trust-fund type. "
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" Bob Seger was a huge inspiration. "
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Bob
Inspiration
Huge
" Country has become too homogenized and too commercial. It has lost what makes it special. It's great that it's popular, but then it starts to become watered down. "
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" I have a huge chip on my shoulder. "
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Shoulder
Chip
Huge
" 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
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Look
" When I'm cutting a tree, if I'm thinking about anything other than that 40-foot oak tree... I'm a dead man. It's a therapy thing for me. "
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Me
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" 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
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