Zitat des Tages von Jon Pardi:
I'm helping country sound a little more country.
I can be a traditionalist but also play with Luke Bryan and get the crowd to go crazy. I think that mix is a lot of what has kept me going and kept people fired up about the music.
Sing your heart out and write the best song you possible can.
I always want to have the traditional country soul while meeting the new standards of country music.
I like hearing fiddles, steel guitar, acoustics up loud - really rock & roll stuff but with a country sound behind it. That's just who I am. I'm not trying to prove a point; I am just doing what I like. But I don't have any problems with any other artist coming in and doing their own thing.
My grandmother loved country music, and she's the one who really got me into country music. She had George Strait tapes, a bunch of them. I remember listening to tapes, taking them out, the covers and the back.
For my shows, I don't play too many slow songs.
My music is my No. 1, and I've got people who believe in me and keep me going. I'm thankful.
I will never, ever speak out against somebody who is living the dream and doing what they want to do, because that's what I'm doing.
Having two back-to-back No. 1's is unbelievable.
At 14, I was in my own little classic rock country band. Then, after high school, I started another band called Northern Comfort. That was based out of Chico, Calif.
Radio has had my back since 'Missin' You Crazy,' which was a very traditional kind of song.
A lot of my fans, and a lot of country music fans, they still wear boots.
As a songwriter, you always want to search for something that's right in front of you that you can twist into something new.
I love having those lyrics that at first make you think it's about one thing, but it's really about something so much more.
I love performing, and if I didn't love it, I wouldn't be doing it.
I'm trying to write songs to appeal to everybody.
There's so many great people in Country Radio, and I appreciate all the support they've given me.
If you get music on a personal level, you are doing something right. It's not just in one ear and out the other.
You gotta have a good beat to survive in modern country in general. Everyone wants to feel good, laugh, dance, and cry. But at the same time, they all want it to sound happy.
I'm mixing country with kind of a modern twist to it.
I'm a funny guy. You've got to be able to make fun of yourself. We only live once.
There's been a lot of wedding songs and proposals. It's cool because when they play it at weddings so, it means a lot to them. That's a big deal. They're always going to remember 'Head Over Boots' as played at their wedding.
I was even more country in my college-band days.
I started playing guitar by the time I was 9.
My California sunrise, there's a real mist in the air. I think of the mountains. You can smell the farm fields. You can smell the dirt and the lights and the whole sun.
