Top 187 Quotes & Sayings by Brad Paisley - Page 3

I had an old, red-covered '63 AC30 - one of the best AC30s I've ever heard. I cut the whole of the first record with it.

A hat has to be shaped to a person's face so it fights just right. It has to be done right. If you put my hat on, with my shape, you'd look like an idiot. If the bill is too high or too saggy, you look like a European tourist going to their first country concert.

A creative space is an important thing. There are so many studios that feel like doctor's offices in Nashville. I couldn't write there.

I think if you ignore the generation after yours, you will be obsolete very quickly.

The artists who stick around for a while are the ones who go, 'Oh, that's cool, never thought of that. Ought to do that.'

I'm somebody who likes to gravitate toward people who aren't necessarily famous.

I really believe you'll get a music video one of these days that I shot with an iPad because it's that consistent and that good. It's HD.

Our songs aren't metaphorical, normally: they're literal in their interpretation.

Country music's always had the best musicians in any format of music, and I always gravitated toward that, stuff that was musically interesting.

I like it when two sounds complement each other but are way different on a record.

I listen to the same things that a lot of my fans do, and I grew up in much the same way they're growing up.

If a little kid picks up Guitar Hero and learns 'Smoke On The Water,' he soon finds out that if he wants the chicks to look at him, he'd better learn it on the guitar!

Surprise is important. I think that's the essence of entertainment, really.

That's why we do this. In country music, we do this for this very reason... to impact people lyrically, to be a part of their lives.

You have different stages in your career where you have different things to prove. And early on, like most people who move to Nashville, I wanted to prove that I belonged here, that I belonged in this format, that I had a love for it.

At certain times, your career should be a party.

I have two little boys, and I want them to feel like this is the nation that I know. That this is the nation that isn't petty.

I wanted to be Buck Owens and Bill Anderson and Roger Miller. With a higher-resolution video screen. And lasers.

Our business has changed so much. Do people even want albums, or do they just buy singles now? You sort of feel like you're the last guy manufacturing VCRs... but I really like albums, and so I like doing them. I'll be the last one making them, even when no one's buying them.

I really like Ed Sheeran.

It would be neat to sing with Roger Miller.

The Stones were a big influence on me and the Beatles, obviously.

I'm sick of feeling like we're in a decline. Let's look at the good.

When you see Obama and Trump shake hands and seem to show respect to one another - that is what we need.

By no means do I try to go out and hang out with famous people.

When you discuss racism, it's almost a no-win scenario - but I don't think that means we shouldn't be discussing it.

It's interesting to hear what somebody does when they have no interest in playing by the rules.

I live in the extremes.

We have to be as good as we want to be as a nation.

If somebody says, 'Do you remember the first time you heard a Rolling Stones song?' if you say you do, you're crazy. You've just always heard them. You might remember the first time it impacted you, but the first time you heard one, you were in a cradle.

When you're with somebody as iconic as Mick Jagger or John Fogerty, I'm really aware that, in asking these guys to collaborate with me, I don't want to add a footnote to their career that's like, 'Shouldn't' have done that.' It's important to make sure that they're well represented.

You're a sitting duck in a mall if you're a celebrity. It's like that scene from 'Guarding Tess,' I think it is, where Shirley MacLaine goes to the mall just to feel good about her celebrity.

Something about cactuses and rock music is a good combination.

I'm always trying to think of things we haven't done.

When you hear a banjo through stutter edit, it's the coolest thing you ever heard.

I try to be careful how much I sing about the suburban house or whatever.

I like Katy Perry. I like Kesha.

I hope I'm at least half the dad that he didn't have to be.

You can't kill it with goodbye; It always finds a place to hide inside your heart for your whole life. Love is never-ending.

I try to write like the writers I admire - I rip them off in form. It comes from George Strait and Merle Haggard records, and country music in general is really good at that, the twisted phrase... So Im always looking for that angle in my own work.

I can't see this world unless I go/ outside my southern comfort zone.

She's a yellow pair of running shoes, a holey pair of jeans. She looks great in cheap sunglasses, she looks great in anything. She's, "I want a piece of chocolate cake; take me to a movie." She's a, "I can't find a thing to wear." Now and then she's moody. She's a Saturn with a sunroof with her brown hair blowing. She's a warm conversation I wouldn't miss for nothing. She's a fighter when she's mad and she's a lover when she's lovin'.

When a single mom goes out on a date with somebody new. It always winds up feeling more like a job interview.

Playing live is about going for it .. it's about bringing it ... you should see a bunch of people trying out stuff, actually performing, instead of learning the record and recreating it note for note. I can't play the show the same way every night .. I really need to be in a creative environment, every night or I'll go nuts ... my manager accuses me of singing just long enough to get me to my next guitar solo - which is true.

Jackass millionaires, hey, hey, Hollywood, here we come.

Can't wait to date a supermodel, can't wait to sue my Dad. Can't wait to wreck a Ferrari, on the way to rehab.

Well one thing's for sure.. all you really need is love.

There ain't a woman in the world that wants to hear the word yes when she asks if you think that she looks chubby in that dress. And if she cooks all day you better eat it with a smile; it doesn't matter if it tastes just like bad gravy on a Goodyear tire.

This is real, this is your life in a song...this is country music.

Yea there ain't nothing not affected when two hearts get connected. All that is will be or ever was; every single choice we make; every breath we get to take is all because two people fell in love.

... there are a lot of shredders in country music - Redd Volkaert, Brent Mason, Dan Huff .. and guys like that

We're all about trying to play better every night, not just singing hit songs ... we ad lib, and every night there's jamming .. it's almost like the Grateful Dead meets Buck Owens some nights, because we'll go off on little adventures and sometimes we do crash the bus!.

She's not perfect, but she tries so hard for me. And I thank God, that she isn't, cause how boring that would be.

You think back to Tele players, and James Burton was the one who started it all. He inspired Roy Nichols (guitar for Merle Haggard & the Strangers), Don Rich (guitar for Buck Owens & the Buckaroos), and guys like that to push the envelope and expand on that sound... I really identify with that kind of thinking ... those guys to me are the reason why any of us do this.

Rock Band never got anybody a date. Never.

When every memory has been made and the pages start to fade. And every prayer you ever prayed is heaven bound. When you think the ride is over, you're back at the beginning. Love is never-ending.

Tomorrow is the first blank page of a 365-page book. Write a good one.

Today she met me at the door, said I would have to choose, if I picked up that fishing rod today, she'd be packing all her things and she'd be gone by noon....well I'm gonna miss her when I get home tonight.

Someday I'm gonna be famous. Do I have talent, well, no. These days you really don't need it.

Pilgrims travel to Jerusalem to see the Holy Land, and the foundations of their faith. People go to Washington, D.C. to see the workings of government, and the foundation of our country. And fans flock to Nashville to see the foundation of country music, the Grand Ole Opry.