Jason Aldean Quotes

Playing live is a lost art, and you don't see a lot of bands that go out and play the way the older bands do. It's a celebration, and a lot of people treat it like a commercial or a distraction.

There's so much excitement around the Phish tours, and if it stopped feeling that way, it would ruin everything we've done for seventeen years.

I don't know if I miss it per se, but I do miss the fact that there just doesn't seem to be any rock 'n' roll out there anyplace. Everything does seem kind of tame. It's even hard in Manhattan to go out and find a good band to go see.

What turns me on is to walk into a sold-out venue. The audiences are so much the same as they were in the '60s. It's just an amazing thing. I can't explain it, but I hope it never stops.

Festivals are great because you get to just walk around the corner and see a new band that you've heard but not had the chance to check out.

I love watching live music. It's one of the reasons I love living in Austin, Texas, because there is so much live music.

[Brian Hyland autograph] was what got me started on going to concerts, because from then on, I was at every concert for everybody.

I actually don't go to shows anymore. Rock concerts have lost their appeal for me.

Philly has always been one of our favorite towns to play in, and the fans have been very loyal and very supportive over the years.

I'm pretty sure that the Walkmen are the band that I've paid to see the most in my life.

I've never been in a band, but I've hung out with a lot of musicians and helped them with their shows. It's something that I'm really drawn to.

And the live show is still our main thing.

But live shows are cool. I just got back into the idea of enjoying it live.

I played with the Lust-Cats once in Denver. I've seen Happy Jawbone a bunch of times, but I can't remember if I played those shows or not.

When we were 15, my brother and I were getting really into Nirvana, Green Day, and The Beastie Boys. We started going to shows and realized we really wanted to be on stage.

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.

Whitesnake more than most rock bands would get a very significant percentage of women in the audience and those were the ones I'd hear the voices because from where I am on stage is a pretty good spot.

I wish the rock 'n' roll scene to be back in.

I am lucky to live in Austin, so I can enjoy the live music.

I love going to concerts, so that whole environment is something that intrigues me anyway.

For a long time, when I was very young, I went to go see arena rock bands. I was 16, and it was all I could get in to see, legally. And I saw Led Zeppelin and Ted Nugent and Van Halen and all that.

Live shows are really big for me. I want to do as many of those as I can.

I'm a big fan of live music and going to gigs, but I'll leave it to the professionals.

The worst thing for me when I go to a concert is a whole bunch of ballads. You get bored.

We always go out looking for live music after our shows.