Jon Pardi Quotes

Most people think a song is a song - three minutes, and you're done. I don't think this way. Songs are my wings. They're what I use to fly. It's very important for me to put everything in the right place.

I have been writing songs since I was 9 years old, so writing has and always will be my first love and passion.

Coming where I'm coming from, really, my family name isn't a pressure because, you know, music is not like sports, where you can go and do a hundred reps in a gym and come out and be all buffed up. Music is an expression of what's inside of you. And that's how I make music.

Acting is awesome, but I'm really, really able to express myself creatively in music.

Songwriting is what I do, and there could be worse burdens to carry.

Since I was 9 years old, I knew how to make a song. But when I got older, I used it as a way to express myself.

My outlet is my music, and it's been this way since I was 4 years old.

When you find a song that you love, you just have to do it - why would I try to match it? When I wrote more of the songs in the '90s - 'Nick of Time' and other songs I was surprised I came up with - it was because nobody else was saying what I wanted to say.

Sometimes I feel like I'm taking on a role when I'm writing a song, and it doesn't always have to be true. I'm not sitting in my room crying with my guitar, writing a slow solo about a depressing breakup; that's not me.

To me, the guitar is a tool for songwriting, and it's fun, too. The day that it's not fun, that's when I'm not gonna play guitar anymore.

I've always written songs since I was a kid - always.

When I was a kid, I wrote music - from the age of 11 until the age of 18.

It wasn't until I wrote 'Hideaway' that I found the song I related to as an artist.

I think it's important to really press on with the song writing and just go with it. There's no code, there's no craft... it's just let yourself shine through your music. If it's meant to be loved and heard, it'll happen.

I've been writing songs since I was 14 years old, and that's my true love.

I started writing songs at age 15.

When I got into music, I wanted to learn guitar just enough to be able to write songs. I wanted to be able to express myself.

My darlings, if I can't write dark, epic music, I can't live!

My favorite music to sing would be my own songs, my original songs, just because I know them, you know I write the tunes, so my favorite songs are the newest ones that I write. That's what I like to sing the most, because it means something, it's real, it comes from me.

No one can attack you when you're songwriting; it's you and a song, which is a great place to be.

I just always wanted to write my own album and play my own music.

I've been writing all my life, and playing bass came later on, when I was about 26. What I recognized with poetry and music that I had a different voice - there were things I wanted to express that I could not as an actor or even as a director. It was another avenue of expression that my soul needs.

I started playing and writing songs when I was eight.

I've always loved both writing and songwriting. The journey is fascinating to me.

Being in a band was so fun and exciting, but I was just kind of focusing more on performance and wasn't really writing the songs - I didn't really think I had a voice.