Paisley Quotes

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
~ Brad Paisley

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. ~ Brad Paisley

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

I love any and all situations where you celebrate creativity. ~ Brad Paisley

I love the city and the people here. I've been with them for many years and I fought alongside them. ~ Bob Paisley

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

Paisley shivered. "So much for a relaxing stroll before dinner. Wait 'til I tell Gram about this. We've landed smack dab in the middle of the Scottish Twilight Zone. ~ Vonnie Davis

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. ~ Brad Paisley

The infant mortality rates are insanely high. The obesity epidemic is on the rise. It is all related. ~ Kimberly Williams-Paisley

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. ~ Brad Paisley

Do as I say, not as I do ~ Paisley Kirkpatrick

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

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

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. ~ Brad Paisley

Expanding further on his own observations of Prince's writing style(s) during the course of the album's recording, fellow Paisley Park engineer Eddie Miller, who engineered the recording of 'Electric Chair' among other Prince recordings during the Batman era, recalled that "he would write all sorts of ways. I have to admit that I listened to some of his cassette demos that he would sometimes bring into the studio to reference (as I remember, he would hold the cassette player up to his ear, so you couldn't really hear it.). They were fascinating. His cassette demo technique was extremely crude but ingenious - it's like something you'd do if you had no access to any equipment. He'd use two cheap cassette recorders. If he wanted to hear drums, he'd record a human beat box rhythm for the length of the song - and most likely, he'd have the form of the song in his head while he was recording this. By the way, it was the same in the studio when he'd do his one man band approach to recording a song. He'd know the song in his head, and start out recording the drums for the song (it would essentially become the 'click track' - the way a click track should be). Back to the cassette demo - he'd then play his beat box groove over the speaker on the cassette recorder and sing the bass line while recording all this onto the second cassette machine. He'd build up a rhythm track this way, and then add vocals. And there's your demo. ~ Jake Brown

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. ~ Brad Paisley

It looked like a piano sounds shortly after being dropped down a well. It tasted yellow, and felt Paisley. It smelled like a total eclipse of the moon. Of course, nearer to the tower it got really weird. ~ Terry Pratchett

Bottom line: you never ever saw him looking wrong. Knowing this, I felt a cold shiver down my spine when I read in the Minneapolis StarTribune that when his body was found in the elevator at Paisley Park, "Prince was wearing a black shirt and pants - both were on backward - and his socks were inside out."

This made no sense to me. The sheer irony of it broke my heart all over again. ~ Mayte Garcia

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. ~ Brad Paisley

Down the Peninsula at Cypress Lawn Cemetery, a woman in a paisley turban climbed out of a battered automobile and trudged up the hillside to a new grave.
She stood there for a moment, humming to herself, then removed a joint from a tortoise-shell cigarette case and laid it gently on the grave.
"Have fun," she smiled. "It's Colombian. ~ Armistead Maupin

I'd like to play Ian Paisley, actually. I'd need building up, though he's very frail now. ~ Liam Neeson

At the highest level the first two yards are in your head. ~ Bob Paisley

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

Liverpool wouldn't be the club it is today without Bill Shankly and Bob Paisley and the players who played there. When I first went there it was a typical Second Division ground, and look at it now! ~ Ian Callaghan

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. ~ Brad Paisley

I believe that Northern Ireland has come to a time of peace, a time when hate will no longer rule. ~ Ian Paisley

I go by records and Bob Paisley is the No 1 manager ever! ~ Alan Hansen

My mom wanted to be a country singer, too, so country was always being played. And my girlfriends and I used to go to concerts, like Brad Paisley, in middle school and high school. ~ Jana Kramer

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

The whole of my life, what they wanted was honesty. They were not concerned with cultured football, but with triers who gave one hundred percent. ~ Bob Paisley

Wisteria hangs over the eaves like clumps of ghostly grapes. Euphorbia's pale blooms billow like sea froth. Blood grass twists upward, knifing the air, while underground its roots go berserk, goosing everything in their path. A magnolia, impatient with vulvic flesh, erupts in front of the living room window. The recovering terrorist
holding a watering can filled with equal parts fish fertilizer and water, paisley gloves right up over her freckled forearms, a straw hat with its big brim shading her eyes, old tennis shoes speckled with dew
moves through her front garden. Her face, she tells herself, like a Zen koan. The look of one lip smiling. ~ Zsuzsi Gartner

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. ~ Brad Paisley

I think football management has obviously changed and evolved in terms of practices and methods, but I would say the values we strive to hold are the same as great men like Bill Shankly and Bob Paisley. ~ Brendan Rodgers

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. ~ Brad Paisley

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

Rock Band never got anybody a date. Never. ~ Brad Paisley

Obviously, Ian Paisley and I were regarded as very bitter opponents. When we decided in March 2007 to govern together, both of us understood that we weren't going to change our views but that we had to work with one another if we were to end the conflict and move forward. ~ Martin McGuinness

I've known men who fought in wars to liberate the Jews from Hitler. I've known men who sewed their own buttons on their clothes. I've known men who talked with a lisp and wore paisley shirts, and men who could chop down trees, and run heavy equipment. Other men were more comfortable in a suit and tie, with soft hands, and a penchant for math, or words. Some men are adventurers, others prefer comic books. Masculinity has never just been one thing. ~ Josh Hatcher

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.' ~ Brad Paisley

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.. ~ Brad Paisley

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. ~ Brad Paisley

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 ! ... ~ Brad Paisley

I need to go to my yoga class - I love hot yoga! ~ Kimberly Williams-Paisley

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. ~ Brad Paisley

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. ~ Brad Paisley

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

Come on, Paisley. What's the worst that could happen?"
Aria meant it as a joke,but her voice sounded too high so she tacked on a laugh. That came out sounding mildly hysterical.
"What could happen in a damaged dome?"
Paisley counted on her slender fingers. "Our skin could rot off. We could get locked out. An Aether storm could turn us into human bacon. Then the cannibals could eat us for breakfast. ~ Veronica Rossi

Catholic homes caught fire because they were loaded with petrol bombs. ~ Ian Paisley

Jackass millionaires, hey, hey, Hollywood, here we come. ~ Brad Paisley

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

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. ~ Brad Paisley

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

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

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. ~ Brad Paisley

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. ~ Brad Paisley

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. ~ Brad Paisley

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

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

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

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. ~ Brad Paisley

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

People don't expect to die tomorrow, but they do take out insurance, don't they? ~ Ian Paisley

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

Firmin, might I remind you that we are the Paris Opera House. Drama is our bread and butter! ~ Paisley Swan Stewart

I knew from that moment on that all the fairy tale bullshit I was fed by Disney and everyone else was nonexistent. I stopped looking for it, got more realistic, and I've been fine. Until now," I look up into Corbin's eyes. "Until you. ~ Kandi Steiner

Here are a few of the actors who have brought my novels to TV life: Bill Pullman, Holly Hunter, Frances McDormand, Julian Sands, Gena Rowlands, Rob Lowe, Julia Ormond, Chelsea Hobbs, Tate Donovan, Anne Heche, Max Martini, Campbell Scott, Kimberly Paisley-Williams, Alexa Vega, and the late legends Richard Kiley and Kim Hunter. ~ Luanne Rice

Line dancing is as sinful as any other type of dancing, with its sexual gestures and touching. It is an incitement to lust. ~ Ian Paisley

I would never repudiate the fact that I am an Irishman ~ Ian Paisley

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. ~ Brad Paisley

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 ... ~ Brad Paisley

What a ghastly place this is! It is perhaps fortunate I am not wearing my white pantaloons. ~ Paisley James

Oh, no, my dear Captain Sandry. Miss Sandry has already managed to shoot two men. I shiver with terror to think what she may do given more time. ~ Paisley James

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. ~ Brad Paisley

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

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! ... ~ Brad Paisley

I nominate the Reverend Ian Paisley for the position of First Minister of northern Ireland ~ Gerry Adams

I love to be able to do something positive with what celebrity I have. I like to be able to make it about something bigger than me; if I can help in some way, I'm happy to do that. ~ Kimberly Williams-Paisley

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

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. ~ Brad Paisley

There's more likelihood of Ian Paisley being the next pope, than of me agreeing to a fix or a stitch-up. ~ Rhodri Morgan

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. ~ Brad Paisley

Ronnie Moran, Joe Fagan, Bob Paisley, Roy Evans - they were hard on us young players. If you got a 'well done' off Ronnie Moran, you must have played well ... They never used superlatives at Liverpool. ~ Paul Jewell

Guitar playing isn't really for everybody. ~ Brad Paisley

If the word 'No' was removed from the English language, Ian Paisley would be speechless. ~ John Hume

Don't come crying to me if your homes are attacked. You will reap what you sow. ~ Ian Paisley

Steve Durkee had left not on friendly terms, which is not unusual in the Paisley world. ~ Matt Thorne

You could've turned the air conditioning on!" Evaline said from down the hall.
"Oh! You let Sophie turn the AC on but I can't!" Paisley shouted back.
"You're surrounded by spirits! You should be cold enough!" - Evaline ~ Tovaley B. Kysel

I was aggressive but I played the game because I loved and enjoyed it. I might have hurt people and I got hurt myself a few times, but not with any malice. When I went on to the field I just wanted to play football. I didn't go out to kick anybody purposely. I just enjoyed playing and if that's aggression, then I'm guilty of that. ~ Bob Paisley

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

The gun is not out of Irish politics. ~ Ian Paisley

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. ~ Brad Paisley

People were always asking me who I wanted to tour with, and I always said Jason Aldean or Brad Paisley. ~ Jana Kramer

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

I have always preferred to liken the championship to a marathon. You have to know how to start the race, how to take the strain when problems come along and to make sure you don't give any potentially dangerous rivals an advantage. My policy is to ideally have five or six men around the age of 26, a couple of youngsters, a couple round the 28 mark and one or two in their 30s. But the nucleus of the team should be experienced and not too old. ~ Bob Paisley

Brad Paisley has always been really great to me, and that's no secret. ~ Carrie Underwood

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. ~ Brad Paisley

The physio side probably stemmed from the knocks I got as a player. ~ Bob Paisley

I will walk on no grave of Ulster's honoured dead to do a deal with the IRA or the British government. ~ Ian Paisley

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

Lori's stomach let out a growl of anticipation as she walked up Jenny's front path, the smell coming from inside was mouth-watering, and having only eating a few slices of bread she was ravenous.
Just as Lori went to knock on the door, Jenny pulled it open with a flourish. Dressed in head to toe paisley, great swathes of silk and chiffon billowed around her.
'Va va voom! You look absolutely stunning darling. Now come straight in and help me with Skippy. I'm having a little trouble getting him into the oven. ~ Bec Johnson