Sam Hunt Quotes

I've never paid too much attention to what other people have said or to what other people have tried to make me be. I've always just tried to be myself, which is such a weird thing to say.

What I would tell everyone is don't lose your sense of individuality.

You cannot live your life looking at yourself from someone else's point of view.

I intend to be me. Whatever that is.

You don't want to spend your life explaining yourself.

But for everyone, I think, there is always a pressure to conform, and I guess as you get older you realize it's less interesting to do that. It starts with you, though, saying, 'I know what I like doing and that's what I'm going to do.'

If you can understand the inner life, then you can wear the uniform, the tattoos, or whatnot and realize that the things that are different about us become superficial.

I learned, when I look in the mirror and tell my story, that I should be myself and not peep whatever everybody is doing.

My philosophy is to be me.

A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug.

I'm just going to do what I do and be who I am.

Be You, Live Civil was a tour that I started, and it's just always something that I've been to myself. 'Be you, live civil' is like 'live my life.' That was my short version of saying to live my life.

To transcend and be yourself... I have no reason to tell you, and others, something that is not of interest to you.

Who knows, maybe I'm just a stubborn jerk? Maybe the other people who do stuff they don't want to do, maybe they're doing the right thing. Who am I to say? I'm just doing my thing and being myself, and I've been given the incredible, fortunate opportunity to play roles that I frickin' care about and enjoy playing. And it might not last forever. That's okay. That's what it is.

I have never regarded myself as this or that. I have been too busy being myself to bother about regarding myself.

No one should part with their individuality and become that of another.

It may be that the most interesting American struggle is the struggle to set oneself free from the limits one is born to, and then to learn something of the value of those limits.

I think it's really easy to just get caught up in what everyone else is doing, so I think the most important thing to remember is to be really strong in your own shoes. That is the main thing for me. The one thing that kind of gets in my way sometimes is when I'm a little too aware of everybody else.

At which point should we let go and do what we want to do, and when should we submit to rules? Coming to terms with our true natures and who we really are has always been a fascination to humans. I know it fascinates me.

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

It's not always easy to identify your own voice. It comes with time.

When I was young, I had this contrarian thing, and my music for a long time was an extension of that. I didn't want to entertain people; I had too much vanity to be an entertainer. I think that some layers of vanity came off.

If you let society and your peers define who you are, you're the less for it.

I would say trust your own judgment and develop your own style that is true in your heart and don't be deterred from that. Just develop that something that's unique to you that you feel you can give. Be true to yourself, trust your own judgment; that's all.

I want to be defined by my own essence.