Brad Paisley Quotes

I don't have, you know, an 'overcoming addiction' story, other than the guitar itself, and I haven't overcome that. I don't have a jail time, you know, story, or any arrests.

Date night is important, even if it's going to Schlotzsky's.

You've got so much up ahead
You'll make new friends
You should see your kids and wife
And I'd end up saying have no fear
These are nowhere near the best years of your life

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.

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.

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.

I get to cry to Barbara Walters, when things don't go my way. I'll get community service no matter which laws I break.

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.

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.

In the past, I tried to be more of a typical session guitarist. I wasn't so concerned with impressing anybody.

I've been on the road I think probably three years.

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! ...

I like to look at the songs like they're little movies.

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

Even on the most serious ballads, I'll throw in a tongue-in-cheek remark.

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.

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.

I've heard my share of Van Halen. I never liked rock.

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.

Guitar playing isn't really for everybody.

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 I'm always looking for that angle in my own work.

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

Deep down, I'm just a West Virginia hillbilly.

To be a true artist, I have to be true to who I am now and write that way.

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.

When I got married, I hired a great choir - the St. James Choir, an all-black gospel choir - to sing at my wedding.

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.

I take his talent and his passion with me - to the stage of the Opry, to the podium at the CMA Awards, to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, into my own living room. I am the realization of my grandfather's dream. I am a player.

I'm a huge, huge fan of almost everything British. I love 'The Office' - I was a faithful follower of that show before the American version.

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.

It's a very smart, progressive bunch, these people that make country music. They're not country hicks sitting behind a desk with a big cigar giving out record deals and driving round in Cadillacs with cattle horns on the front grille: it's a bunch of really wonderful, open-minded, great people down on Music Row that make this music.

You look out there and there's people that, their day is changed because of your contribution to it.

The big problem here is that getting any young person with a short attention span to spend ten thousand hours doing something can be an uphill battle. That's never been more true than these days when whatever kids do has to compete with so many attractive options. It can be surfing the Web, playing video games, tweeting, or Facebook. Back in my day, I confess that I played my fair share of Donkey Kong, but even than there was no Web for me to surf and I didn't have a status. Well, yes I did, it just wasn't posted anywhere yet.
Whatever you want to do in this life, I'm here to encourage you not to lose hope or give up during the first hundred or so of those ten thousand hours that it takes to get good. You should know that in my case it took me a while to "get the bug" for guitar, as my grandpa used to call it. He always said it would happen, almost like a slow sickness. And he knew it would take time.

I go to eat dinner with my folks when I'm home. I think that's the trick.

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..

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.

Rock Band never got anybody a date. Never.

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 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.

When Ray Flacke came out, it was like 'What in the heck is this?' ... there's a guy who had that Tele players attitude, and he plugged straight into that amp with a delay, and it was unbelievable the way he would bend those big strings ... he was really unique ...

Anytime you do something from the heart, people just know it.

It just gets easier in that you become more you in the process.

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

My father's a firefighter. He was my whole life. And my brother-in-law and several family members are firefighters.

I love any and all situations where you celebrate creativity.

When I made 'Who Needs Pictures,' my first album, I had been west of the Mississippi River one time in my life, and that was in fourth grade. We traveled to California for vacation and stayed with some friends of my parents. It was culture shock, and it was different.

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.

If you fall in love with somebody, then you're not even worried about your bills. Love can take your mind off of anything.

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.

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.

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

When you're old-fashioned like I am, you know marriage is forever. Those vows are a promise.

Alison Krauss is definitely my favorite singer that's ever lived. I've never heard anyone like her.

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 can fall in and out of love, have marriages that barely last a month. When they go down the drain, I'll blame it on the fame.

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

I imagine there's a market for total depression. I grew up on George Jones and that really dark stuff.

As a guitar player, it's harder for me to impress somebody than it is to write a song that they like.

I love to play. When I'm off, I feel a little lost - like, shouldn't I be on stage somewhere?

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

Albert Lee and I have become real close friends, and he comes out anytime I'm in the L.A. area, and he'll sit in for the whole show ! ... we've got a habit of doing that ... in Austin Redd Volkaert does the same thing ... it's fun ... I love to make it a guitar thing and the audience doesn't know any different - they think he's some new band member they don't know. They don't realize Albert's the reason we all play Teles ! ...

Country music has become the music that best represents the reality of American life.

She put him out like the burning end of a midnight cigarett.
She broke his heart.
He spent his whole life trying to forget.
We watched him drink his pain away a little at a time.
But he never could get drunk enough to get her off his mind until the night.
He put that bottle to his head and pulled the trigger.
And finally drank away her memory.
Life is short but this time it was bigger,
Than the strength he had to get up off his knees.
We found him with his face down in the pillow.
With a note that said: I love her til' I die.
And when we buried him beneath the willow,
The angels sang a whiskey lullaby.
La la la la la la la. La la la la la la la.
La la la la la la la. La la la la la la la.
The rumors flew,
But nobody knew how much she blamed herself for years and years.
She tried to hide the whiskey on her breath.
She finally drank her pain away a little at a time,
But she never could get drunk enough to get him off her mind until the night.
She put that bottle to her head and pulled the trigger.
And finally drank away his memory.
Life is short but this time it was bigger,
Than the strength she had to get up off her knees.
We found her with her face down in the pillow.
Clinging to his picture for dear life.
We laid her next to him beneath the willow,
While the angels sang a whiskey lullaby.
La la la la la la la. La la la la la la la.

Love Sadness Song Lyrics Tragety

What good is all that knowing the best thing that I had going is gone?

No one can make the album they made 10 years ago with a straight face. There are two reasons: one is you change as a person. To be a true artist, I have to be true to who I am now and write that way. And the second thing is these are different times.

I'm aware of the fact that a lot of talented people out there will never get this chance.

That there's no more important decision in life than who you marry.

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.