Gabby Barrett Quotes

With Saint Heron, I really wanted to celebrate and continue to cultivate the community for genre-defying R&B artists.

You should listen to a lot of different music.

My music has always been sort of in between categories. Sometimes record stores - back when there were record stores - they'd put my records in the country music section, but other record stores would put my records in the pop or even the rock section. As long as it's in the store somewhere, I'm OK with it.

I like writing different types of music. I don't like being stuck into one thing.

I love Florida Georgia Line. I love 'Round Here.' So if a fan wants to listen to that, and if a fan that wasn't listening to country music before is listening to 'Cruise' on Pandora, and after that a song by George Jones comes on, they may have never heard George Jones before. I think it's a good thing for the genre.

I listen to all kinds of music - new music, old music, music of my colleagues, everything.

I try to do things that keep me interested. And play music that moves me. I like to move around and play in a lot of different ways.

I've always tried to listen to a lot of different music from around the world.

And obviously, when I started out, I had a little bit more curiosity than some, and went seeking out the original artists, or in some cases searching up country music.

When you travel on a bus with guys who love all kinds of music, you get exposed to some great stuff, man.

What is nice about country music today is that most artists are not trying to do something everybody else is doing. They really are trying to develop their own uniqueness.

I always loved country music. But I didn't even know I could sing. I just knew I loved the music.

Really, I get inspired by just switching projects and instrumentation and things like that - that creative part of just being different every time is really what inspires me.

When some artistes give a hit song, they keep repeating themselves in the same genre. I always try to create something new.

Country music has taken so many forms, and I've always contended that it does not matter if the casual listener falls in love with country music through Florida Georgia Line, Taylor Swift, Old Crow Medicine Show or whomever - just get in and start digging!

Occasionally, I'll want to cover something that's outside of my audiences' tastes or interests. Every week or so I have to try and cover at least one or two of those things to keep my sanity. If you're only reviewing what is in the top album spots on Apple Music every week, you can get kind of jaded.

I didn't grow up on country and blues, I was just a kid listening to VH1 and then I realized I needed to expand my musical horizons. Now I have a deep appreciation for southern heritage music.

Kids don't want to hear the same record. There are a hundred million bands that they could listen to; you want to give them something that they've never heard before.

There's room for everyone. There's room for pop country, for 'rock & roll' country, for stone-cold country, and everything in-between. Great music is great music.

I grew up listening to everything, and when I got signed to a record deal out of Nashville, that was my introduction to what was happening in country music.

The whole cultural diversity and musical diversity, I think they almost go hand in hand, you know? It's like a mind space or a it's having an open mind to what else is out there.

The record is definitely a musical journey. It's kind of all over the place, which I like.

We've incorporated different sounds from different countries and genres, and we've explored widening the range of our music.

Country music has room for a little bit of everything.

I don't believe in making two songs similar. Every composition must have its own unique character.