Brad Paisley Quotes

When I started out, I was what they called corny. After a week in Nashville they were calling me hillbilly.

I like this town, it's really great. They've put me in The Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame. This town is about music. It's about the kind of music I like.

I love Nashville. It's such a great town, and I'm a huge country music fan. That's what I listen to on the radio in the car.

Nashville was totally different than I ever dreamed. I had only seen the music business on television and been to a couple of concerts. I had no clue.

As a child, I was always very interested in music and had friends who were in the music business. I kind of accidentally fell into it and loved it. There was no reason not to - it was a great career.

Being called 'conscious' is a great thing to be, but it's the connotations and preconceived notions that come with the buying audience about what conscious music can be.

One of the reasons I wanted to do a show about Nashville in Nashville was because when I lived here, the hardest thing to go out and hear was country music. Country was taking place inside the studio and it was an export.

One of the great reasons to be in Nashville is, you get guys like Shane McAnally to write songs with.

You don't start to play your guitar thinking you're going to be running an organisation that will maybe generate millions.

I think the future looks great for music, musicians, bass players, and all we love about music.

I never gave up on country music because I knew what I was doing was not that bad.

My producer, Michael Knox, he's kind of my eyes and ears on Music Row. While I'm out on the road, he's looking for songs, and then he and I will get together and go over songs.

Right now it seems like the girls are drawing more attention to country music.

I moved to Nashville at 17 to make music, and since then I've put everything I have into doing it right.

Holland is to dance music what Nashville is to country.

As a city, Chicago really affords me an environment that I am really happy creating in. It's an easy place to live in a lot of ways; it's a great community to be making music in.

And I got to know Red Foley well. And I got to know Lefty really well, he was a great guy.

Eye was a great discovery. He is one of the great vocalists of all time.

I even have nephews who make music, my daughter makes music. I don't know what advice to give them these days. It's really a tough industry to break into.

The world is full of musicians who can play great, and you wouldn't cross the road to see them. It's people who have this indefinable attitude that are the good ones.

I remember times when the whole music scene was just flourishing.

Musicians play music because you love... I loved to play drums since I was five. It's all I ever wanted to do. Rock stars, or as we call them, posers, guys who want to just look great, dress great. They're not musicians; they're looking for the fame.

For about seven years. I really like it there. There are a lot of great musicians. The scene is very open. A lot of stuff going on. People's ears are really open, they are not closed. A lot of scenes here, people just get tunnel vision and are into one thing.

You seldom hear any young artists in country music.

My parents played the radio, but music was never an obsession or something that I thought I could call a career.