Top 33 Quotes & Sayings by Shooter Jennings
Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American musician Shooter Jennings.
Last updated on September 17, 2024.
Dave Cobb is someone who shows up every day and is playing guitar and never takes his eye off the ball. That's what the greats in music do. The music is in great hands as long as he's making it.
I feel comfortable in my own skin writing about the things that I like because I know that there are other people out there that understand what I'm talking about.
I was able to be more reckless and now I still make mistakes, but having kids, you have a responsibility and these little people who are looking up to you for everything.
My generation is so tied up in television, computers, and video games. When we were born, MTV was already there. It was normal.
The biggest misconception my whole life is that I'm rich, that I had all this money from my dad, which I did not.
I don't care if people like Trump or hate him, if they voted for him or not; people just want to have a good time. They don't want to hear about immigration or whatever on a record or at a show.
Being with my kids is really important to me, being a good dad and being around a lot.
There was something about Hank Williams, Jr. that I really latched onto from an early age.
I've had my fair share of words being twisted and articles being sliced and diced.
If you are close to your parents or a grandparent, you watch as they get old and you learn so much from that, and it makes you want to learn more while you have time.
I would be happy to be a footnote in my dad's bio. I don't care about trying to be famous or prove that I didn't need him. Even if they say I'm riding his coattails, I'm confident enough in my own music that I don't worry about that.
I can't get booked on the Fourth of July, or it'll be, 'Do you want to open for the opener for Toby Keith?' Hell, no.
I'm usually pretty punctual. I'm not one to like to be late. When I was younger, I was the guy who'd leave the house early if I had to get somewhere and drive around for a while until it got to be time to show up.
My kids are deep. My daughter plays music. My son, Black Jack, doesn't forget anything.
A lot of people that I've met who don't like country music just haven't been introduced to the old country.
It took me a little while to get sorrow under the belt enough to understand country music's lyrics and strengths.
Me and my wife watch laser discs, and I collect old computers. And one of my regular models is a 1993 computer with Windows 98 on it. I just love old technology, and I don't know what you would call that. I'm just stuck in 1991, '92.
My dream was always to be on the production side of things. Even as a little kid, when my dad would bring me to the studio, I always loved that.
I won't say I'm analog. I'm not like Jack White. I'm more like 1991.
You know, when I was younger I was into all kinds of art - drawing, painting, all that stuff. But I played drums, played piano forever.
I don't think I thought I was going to go into music, and I don't think it hit me until I was 13 or 14, and then I was gone. Just like that. At that point, there was nothing else that could keep my attention.
I'm in control of my musical career, which means more than awards and record sales. And that freedom is exactly what my dad fought for, too.
All of my records have been very personal, just writing more and more songs, you get better at being able to say what you feel.
My dad never liked labels, and neither do I.
My favorite bands are Hank Williams Jr. and Led Zeppelin. When it's rock, it's '70s rock, and when it's country, it's '70s country. For me, it's the grit and dirt of music that I love so much.
The smartest thing I've done for my kids is writing a song about a holiday. Every year after that, even after I'm gone, they'll get a small check from the play it gets around the Fourth.
I misfired and said some things in the past about people, namely John Mayer. And I didn't have the guts to apologize.
I think the first older artist I related to and loved was Bowie.
That's the thing I love the most - making records and creating new things. That's always the thing that grabbed me. Making records is the thing that I really love.
L.A.'s cool; I had a run with it to where it just pretty much wore me out. I love the weather and I have great friends there, great family, but I really cannot take a lot of the culture. Like Nashville, where everybody's a songwriter, everybody out there is an actor.
Anything I write is going to be autobiographical and true to some degree.
Albums like 'Major Moves' or 'High Notes' - those still sound good to me.
All those songs are totally timeless. They'll always stand up because they came from a real place. They weren't crafted songs. They were written from the heart.
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