Shooter Jennings Quotes

I learned at an early age that I was given something special when I was born, and that was the gift of music.

I remember li'l ol' Hank Jr. - he was just a baby back in them days, you know - but he used to hang around. His mama would bring him around. He was just a natural.

My dad recently reminded me that my grandfather's cousin was Lefty Frizzell.

Conway Twitty was always our local hero while I was growing up. He had a series of good bands. I wanted to sit in, if Conway would let me. And he did a couple of times.

I was living on the wrong side of the tracks in Evanston, Illinois, in a home for boys. We had these Jackson 5 records. I really related to their voices - they were about my age, but they were doing it.

My father had slowed down playing a little... I was 'round 10 or 12 years old. Every time he put his guitar down, I pick it up.

Irving Berlin was the greatest songwriter of all time. I was in awe of him. But his music wasn't my music. My music was the blues.

I take my hat off to people like the Stones, but it's not for me. I couldn't do that. Jagger is brilliant and long may he rock. I couldn't make my career out of old songs; it would do my head in.

I started off as a kid singing with my dad. My dad was my best pal. But he had seven kids, and I was the only one who was kind of interested in what he was playing and singing at the piano. And he was not only my dad, but he was my best pal, and I was interested in doing whatever he wanted to.

My mother and father didn't know anything about instruments. Me just see a man in the country play guitar one time and say, 'My, the man play that guitar nice.'

Growing up and playing guitar with my dad and stuff like really influenced me. It definitely must've had an impact on why Miley wanted to sing and why I wanted to sing and play guitar as well.

I did not want to go onstage and play Led Zeppelin songs; there has to be more than that. I wanted to create a complete experience of what Led Zeppelin means to me, growing up around them and being part of it all my life.

My dad was a big influence because he did a lot of music.

I was conscious of vocalists from an early age.

I had admired Waylon [ Jennings], but I never expected to meet him and get to know him. When I finally moved to Nashville years later, one night I went to a Harlan Howard Guitar Pull thing, and there was Waylon. He started talking about how much he loved my work and how great I was, and I couldn't even get a word in.

All my life I have regarded myself as one of Mozart's greatest admirers, and I will remain one until my last breath.

I started writing songs after I heard Hank Williams.

When I was nine, I was passing by a drum class and saw them playing and I was moved. That's why I started making music.

Chris Young was a big influence of mine, and he's one of my good friends now.

I knew music was for me from an early age.

I've always had music in my blood.

I leave everyone to have their own opinions of my music and my influence - or not - on others.

My dad is my biggest musical inspiration.

Everyone in my family, they do music, and they love music; it's all about the music.

At 12 or 13, I picked up a guitar because my mother made me learn how to play.