Cole Swindell Quotes

In a small town, it's either sports or a band with your buddies. I was always athletic. But in college, I was exposed to all this new music, and I was drawn to hip-hop and R&B.

It was my dad who got me into football. One day, he surprised me playing in the garage. He thought I was a thief. I always played football when I was a kid.

I would say I was into two sports as a kid: basketball and baseball.

I always knew music was gonna be my outlet, I just didn't know when, or how it was gonna happen.

I was doing something of my own after I left The Moody Blues, I went away, lived in Spain for a while.

I didn't start off as a bass player, and Guns was the first band I really, like, 'Oh, I'm gonna be a bass player. This is what I'm gonna do.' And I really dove into it head first.

When you are chiselling a sculpture, it won't happen in one day, it happens over a period of time. It's the same way that my personality has changed over the past 15 years. I am not the same person I used to be and my life experiences are what have made me.

But music was never something I saw myself doing.

My father took me to a lot of sports events as a child, and our TV stayed on ESPN.

Well, when I wasn't playing with a football I used to play with 'Star Wars' figures as a kid. Hanging out with Chewbacca and Luke Skywalker is how I passed the time when I wasn't kicking a ball around.

I was cycling until I was 68. I used to play football, cricket, tennis, table tennis. I was into road walking - heel and toe.

Wrestling, football, basketball, and baseball were the four things I was obsessed with as a kid.

My childhood in Adelaide was filled with sport. I played soccer from morning until night.

We play the instruments we love.

I can spend hours and hours and days and days in the studio changing the music, because I love that.

My dad gave my brother and I a camera to film our football games when we were 10 years old so we could see how we could get better. Then one day, we decided to pick up the camera and film whatever we were doing.

I'm definitely somewhat of a tomboy. I grew up a pretty big tomboy, actually, and was really obsessed with basketball.

My brother Barry was into all sports, and so was my late father. For me, hockey was the one sport I loved and played. I didn't really pay much attention to the other sports.

When I was 5 or 6, I was messing around with the piano, and I listened to everything from Chopin to boogie-woogie.

Bears fans... man... I could not have chosen a better place to make my first stop outside of North Carolina.

I watched the Premier League every weekend with my dad - the highlight shows, everything.

Growing up, I didn't like basketball. I played football and baseball and ran some track.

I'm not a story; I'm a person, and my passion is music. And I want your passion to be my music - so, judge me on my music.

I have done nothing my entire life but play music.

I was really into sports, playing track and field, amateur wrestling, volleyball, and soccer. I was a very active kid and teenager.