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" You don't realize how beautiful an idea is until you do it with other people. There's this really shimmery, awesome thing when you start finishing a song - where the song just starts writing itself. "

Coy Bowles

Song

Beautiful

Writing

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Coy Bowles

Giving

Believe

" I try as hard as I can to push myself. I try to create as much as I can. I try to grow on a daily basis. "

" I was raised on nothing but love and support. "

" I live a life of creating, sharing music with wonderful musicians that I love like family, and spreading a message through music that life is yours to live wide open, and do it your way with love. "

" Just to be part of the history of the Hollywood Bowl - so many people have played there; at least, all of my heroes have. "

" You think you have the most amazing life by having your dreams come true as a musician and marrying the woman of your dreams. But then you add a lil' baby girl... to the mix, and it's like you've never really lived and loved until she was here. "

" It's so hard to listen to an album you created and without remembering where you were when you wrote it or referencing the the recording experience. "

" My mother is very good at sewing and makes wonderful quilts. "

" My father is a very skilled carpenter. He can do just about anything with his hands. He is very artistic with his carpentry. "

" I love coming back home and seeing old friends and family. I would say it keeps me grounded. "

" The recipe to our success is that you have a bunch of different guys who listen to a lot of different music. "

" It's kind of a Catch-22. The more successful you get, the less normal you get. "

" Writing children's books all started out as a way for me to give back and make a difference. "

" I've really learned a lot from Zac Brown over the years. He is someone that I consider to be one of my best friends, and besides my parents, he has taught me more than anyone else. Zac is, by nature, a giving and understanding person. "

Coy Bowles

Best

Friends

" Life is short, so there is no reason why you shouldn't live it to the fullest expression of yourself. "

" If you feel like you have no other option in life but to follow your musical path, then do it. If you are talented and focus all your energy on becoming better and furthering your career and never give up, something will happen. I'm not sure what will happen, but it is guaranteed that you will do more than if you didn't do all that. "

" Duane Allman might be my favorite guitar player ever. I'd say I'm influenced by the Allman Brothers more than any other band. When I taught guitar lessons for a living, the students that were interested in soloing had to learn the intro to 'It's Not My Cross to Bear' first thing. "

" I've always been the type of person that thinks, 'If someone else can do it, so can I.' "

" Songwriting is a big deal to me. "

" If they keep playing us on country radio and we get to keep doing cool stuff like playing with Willie Nelson, that's great. "

Coy Bowles

Cool

Radio

" The 'Will Powers' story is like my life to a certain degree. "

" A lot of times, people ask us about being a country band, and we say, 'Well, we're not really a country band.' And we're not knocking country, because we like it, but we don't want to be limited. "

" I made a promise to be as creative as I could, even outside of music. "

" You're part of the problem or the solution. Solution means, in my opinion, to be taking extra time and energy in trying to give back to the world. "

" I've tried very hard to stay grounded with my family, my ol' buddies, nature, music, and creativity. "