Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
" 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. "
Coy Bowles
Opinion
Energy
Problem
Related Quotes:
" It's always hard for me to put the pieces together when listening to a finished album that I was a part of writing and playing. There are so many memories wrapped up in each note and each song that it's hard not to constantly flash back to what made that musical event happen while listening. "
Coy Bowles
Together
Writing
Memories
" I taught guitar lessons for a long time for a living before I got on the road. I really enjoyed hanging out with kids, talking about music with them, and trying to influence them in a positive way. "
Coy Bowles
Positive
Music
Road
" The recipe to our success is that you have a bunch of different guys who listen to a lot of different music. "
Coy Bowles
Listen
Success Is
Success
" God Bless my mother and father for all the hard work they've done for our family. "
Coy Bowles
Hard Work
Work
Family
" Life is short, so there is no reason why you shouldn't live it to the fullest expression of yourself. "
Coy Bowles
You
Yourself
Life
" When I try to be funny, it always makes me more nervous that I'm trying too hard, and then my brain that already thinks too much jumps into hyper drive, and I light-speed start talking 'Star Trek' to someone who's talking 'Star Wars.' Anyway, it doesn't work out usually when I 'try' to be funny. "
Coy Bowles
Me
Funny
Drive
" Sometimes I have a little social anxiety, and meeting people can be a challenge for me. "
Coy Bowles
Challenge
Me
Meeting
" It's kind of a Catch-22. The more successful you get, the less normal you get. "
Coy Bowles
You
Successful
Get
" 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. "
Coy Bowles
Love
Music
Sharing
" The coolest thing for me to do was listen to Pearl Jam's 'Ten,' Nirvana's 'Nevermind,' or Soundgarden and play along to it and think about how awesome it would be to be in one of those bands and be up on stage. When I'd close my eyes at 13 and dream of being in Pearl Jam or one of those bands, it was exactly like how it is now with the band I'm in. "
Coy Bowles
Eyes
Band
Dream
" 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. "
Coy Bowles
Dreams
Life
Woman
" I've always been the type of person that thinks, 'If someone else can do it, so can I.' "
Coy Bowles
Always
Thinks
Someone
" We pride ourselves on being great songwriters. "
Coy Bowles
Great
Pride
Ourselves
" We are all big Motown fans. "
Coy Bowles
Motown
Fans
Big
" My father is a very skilled carpenter. He can do just about anything with his hands. He is very artistic with his carpentry. "
Coy Bowles
Just
Hands
Father
" We can be whatever we want to be. We can be a country band if we need to be. We can be a rock band if we need to be. "
Coy Bowles
Band
Country
Want
" 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
Me
Best
Friends
" My dad is basically my best friend. I'm that dude's spitting image and couldn't be more proud of that. They just don't come any better than my dad. "
Coy Bowles
Friend
Proud
Best
" Stylistically, we do so many different things. "
Coy Bowles
Stylistically
Different
Many
" My mother is very good at sewing and makes wonderful quilts. "
Coy Bowles
Good
Mother
Makes
" 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
Like
" I grew up in a really small town in Georgia, so the idea of knowing people who are actors or who are just involved in the Hollywood and movie scenes, that's far beyond anything I ever thought would happen in my life. "
Coy Bowles
Life
My Life
People
" I can play in front of 30,000 people at Fenway and not be nervous at all. But I get really nervous in front of kids. "
Coy Bowles
I Can
People
Get
" I believe 99% of success is never giving up. "
Coy Bowles
Giving
Up
Believe
" Whether there's 100 people or 100,000, we bring our 'A' game every single time. We're full-speed on stage. We kick the audience's butt. "
Coy Bowles
Stage
Our
Game
" I got into writing short stories and blogs while on the road. "
Coy Bowles
Stories
Road
Got
" We're able to play different genres and be very specific in sounding like we know what we're doing. "
Coy Bowles
Doing
Know
Like
" I like music that not only has a pop melody to it but is also deeply about something. "
Coy Bowles
Melody
Something
Music
" My mom used to cut out articles from the 'Atlanta Journal Constitution' when I was in high school. She would either give them to me to read or she would post them on the fridge. These articles would usually be stories of someone inventing something, breaking records, or achieving some kind of success. "
Coy Bowles
Success
Me
School
" I grew up as an only child, so inherently, most of my life was centered around me. My parents taught me to play well with others and to share my toys, but I was still an only child who didn't have to share my parent's attention with siblings. As great as my childhood was, I always wanted brothers and sisters. "
Coy Bowles
Childhood
Great
Life