Top 187 Quotes & Sayings by Brad Paisley
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Last updated on December 23, 2024.
Anytime you're in West Virginia or near it, and you sing, 'Take Me Home, Country Roads,' it's a sight to behold.
The late-sixties Teles are the best value you can get for a vintage guitar.
I'm sure there are a few things in my CD collection that might surprise people. I like classical music, the blues, and I'm a big fan of alternative rock.
Anybody can be a star with the right song.
I jetset around and play these songs and get to hang with some pretty amazing people, then I go home to a really great farm, though actually it's a disaster area of a farm at the moment. But it's certainly a blast. I wouldn't trade lives with anyone right now.
If you make the mistake of looking back too much, you aren't focused enough on the road in front of you.
I like to look at the songs like they're little movies.
I've heard my share of Van Halen. I never liked rock.
If you were to hold me to a standard of, 'What are you doing, singing about a scratch-off ticket at your level of success?' then my music's gonna be ridiculous.
My life would be very puzzling to most people if they had to follow me around for a day or two.
Country music has become the music that best represents the reality of American life.
It comes down to building your own world out here on the road. It's who you surround yourself with. My band and crew are really positive guys.
As long as you continue to have new songs, there's usually some new topic or something to present.
In the past, I tried to be more of a typical session guitarist. I wasn't so concerned with impressing anybody.
As a guitar player, it's harder for me to impress somebody than it is to write a song that they like.
I'm going to obviously do my best as a father to set a good example for my children, and I want them to see good examples from our leaders.
I changed my mindset and figured, Why not try to be really entertaining instrumentally?
If there's a song where there's a possibility of guitar stuff that would be fun to listen to, go for it. Don't worry about what anybody thinks.
Willie Nelson, out there 200 days a year, calls his band family. And it is.
There may be people in my audience who may not agree with me on some particular issue - you know, say, as a gun owner, they may not agree with me, or, you know, someone may not agree with me on a gay marriage topic. Any of those things. But those shouldn't be the reasons you listen to my music.
When you fall in love, you don't have a whole lot of time. But when it comes to a heartache, all of the sudden you have time on your hands, and it's an outlet for you to write.
I have a to-do list and I have a farm I care for, and things I like to do for fun - going to movies and all that stuff. It's a painfully normal life!
You look out there and there's people that, their day is changed because of your contribution to it.
To be a true artist, I have to be true to who I am now and write that way.
Some of the worst selfies I've ever seen are at Auschwitz or Ground Zero.
That there's no more important decision in life than who you marry.
I imagine there's a market for total depression. I grew up on George Jones and that really dark stuff.
Even on the most serious ballads, I'll throw in a tongue-in-cheek remark.
I love any and all situations where you celebrate creativity.
The nice thing about the world that I've been able to inhabit for the last couple of years is that I'm given a lot of freedom. Not all artists really get that.
With my guys and with the way that we live out there, we work out a lot and try to eat right, but we try to basically keep it our own rhythm and our own world.
I love to play. When I'm off, I feel a little lost - like, shouldn't I be on stage somewhere?
If I get an idea for a song, I have a melody for it. I'm a musician first. I'm not limited by the fretboard.
If you fall in love with somebody, then you're not even worried about your bills. Love can take your mind off of anything.
There are phrases that are totally cliche that we, as songwriters, owe it to ourselves to not use again.
I go to eat dinner with my folks when I'm home. I think that's the trick.
I don't want to do risky. I want to do important. And lovable. Important and lovable.
Even in your darkest moments, you'll think of something that'll crack you up.
No one dislikes LL Cool J. If you meet LL Cool J, you fall in love with LL Cool J. LL and I had mutual friends, and he and I had always talked about doing something. My fans know LL's music. And I love him - we're blood brothers at this point. We've been through the fire together. I know no finer person.
I'm aware of the fact that a lot of talented people out there will never get this chance.
Alison Krauss is definitely my favorite singer that's ever lived. I've never heard anyone like her.
Anytime you do something from the heart, people just know it.
It just gets easier in that you become more you in the process.
I've always known from the time I was eight years old what I wanted to do. I would have been fairly content to be someone's lead guitar player.
When I got married, I hired a great choir - the St. James Choir, an all-black gospel choir - to sing at my wedding.
I'm the smart aleck. The class clown. I'm the guy who does the song nobody expects.
If you're somebody that gets a chance to go somewhere... that has to work somewhere or go to another city, then do your best to see it. Because I just think that's the best way to have an interesting life.
My first tweet was at the CMT Awards when I won an award and typed, 'Thank you.' Then I was hooked because the followers started multiplying. It's a great tool.
If you're really on top, you probably didn't do that great, 'cause you have to water it down a bit for it to get that mass appeal.
Deep down, I'm just a West Virginia hillbilly.
I don't stare at a sheet of paper and try to think of a good word to use. I try to see where the story should go.
I've been on the road I think probably three years.
When you're old-fashioned like I am, you know marriage is forever. Those vows are a promise.
I'm done with rules that are there just to be rules.
Guitar playing isn't really for everybody.
Life isn't always black and white. You're not always sure you're right. At least I'm not.
I love being an enigma. Every time I'm tempted to respond to someone who tries to put me in a box, politically - you know, someone who gets on the Internet and says, you're pro-gun, or you're anti-gun - I stop and say to myself, 'This is great; this is what I wanted. I wanted to be the guy you can't figure out.'
I really worked to try and be creative enough on the guitar parts so those who aren't real educated would know that there was some difficulty in doing it.
When they say you're the best, I always remember that the majority of the audience probably thinks someone else should have gotten the award.
I defuse everything I can with it. Humor is such a great shield.
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