Top 106 Quotes & Sayings by Brantley Gilbert - Page 2

It's been cool to catch up, but I think I'm done with my exes. To be honest, I went out with flying colors on the majority of them.

The first time I went to Sturgis, I remember thinking, 'This motorcycle thing, this is me.'

It's not just music. To me, it's songwriting more than anything. A lot of people say it's expression, but to me, it's more than that.

I still live in the same town where I grew up.

We're gonna raise some big bucks and breed 'em and that sorta thing. Pretty excited about that.

Don't get me wrong. There's always situations where when it gets bigger than me, it's time to go talk to mama and daddy and God.

Songwriting has always been close to me.

I'm not too good at being fake or being somebody else.

It's a little less stressful as a support act, because the headliner carries the majority of the weight. But as a headliner, we get to play a little bit longer.

If I read a script in the future that I feel like I could have a little fun with or that reflects me well, it may be one of those things that I try out. But, of course, music's my number one priority.

I'm sticking true to my roots.

I'm as honest as I can possibly be when I write.

If I'm down about something or having problems with something, I can write it down and get it out.

Cardio's not really my deal.

What you see is what you get, and the majority of people in my life that loan me clothes know that they've never seen me in a suit.

We try to put on the same show regardless of what stage or platform we're on.

For me, a show's a show. I try to put on the best show I can for whatever audience or time slot I get.

The girls from my hometown are so over me.

Those people are the lifeblood of what we do. We don't have fans. We have friends.

Some people wear their heart on their sleeve; I do that in more ways than one.

I've been asked a million times to move to Nashville, but I just can't seem to do it.

Looking back, we had the hard time, but the privilege, of actually coming up playing biker bars and little bitty college bars.

My fiancee's the one that's picture worthy.

I write about things and put things into my albums that I don't talk to people about. I don't hold back or sugarcoat anything.

I always knew I wanted to be a performer. I started playing when I was in third grade, but I wasn't very good at all.

I don't try to be somebody I'm not.

I sing about the things that I don't have conversations about.

A friend is someone who supports you. And these people are buying tickets at outrageous ticket prices. If that ain't support, I don't know what is.

If I'm ever having a good time, I'll write about it so I'll remember it.

We've got a lot of friends. We take care of them because they take care of us.

Not to take anything away from artists who don't write their own songs, but it's always been important to me to make sure it's my story.

I don't sit down to write a number one hit. I'm not that good at my job - I don't know how to do that.

I tell everybody, 'If you want to get to know me, if you listen to those three records, you'll have a really good idea.' They were released at different time periods in my life, and those are the things I was going through.

I don't write about anything I haven't been through.

I'll flip a stupid tire. But I ain't running.

I just sit down and write the best song for the best moment, and however it comes out, it is what it is.

I try to just encompass the entire feeling and emotion behind the song the best way possible, and if that's 100,000 screaming guitars right in your face, then that's what's going down.

It's real easy in a lot of businesses for your head to swell up, and you become somebody else. So that's one of my main goals in the business - to continue to be me.

When people ask me why are you singing a drinking song if you don't drink anymore, because when I did drink I drank enough to sing drinking songs for the rest of my life!

I can honestly say that everything I've ever listened to has influenced me or motivated me in one way, form or fashion.

Country music has its way of getting into the minds and hearts of people. I will say - you never know how long it's gonna take something to grow, you never know if you're gonna hit in a certain market.

We weren't raised to take, we were raised to give the shirt off our back to anyone in need.

I think it's just a conglomerate of everybody's influences that comes out on the record, and live as well.

If you can't live it down, might as well live it up.

My life is like a Harley Ride. When I'm on my bike that's really one of the places I feel completely at home.

Yeah and she's my kinda crazy The little games she plays Lord they'll never get old She's too cute to get on my last nerve The way she throws her little fits Pokin' out her lip and bitin' mine when we kiss There ain't a fight that she can't win That's my baby And she's my kinda crazy