Ralph Stanley Quotes

Anytime you have a fellow artist say, 'Loving the new Luke Bryan album,' that's awesome.

I've recorded 25 or 30 albums. I know that sometimes when you work with producers who are kinda dictators, it doesn't help you make a better record.

I did this thing with Trisha Yearwood, a song called 'The Price.' I had been sitting on it for a while, because I figured, you know, this really needs a good singer.

My wife grew up loving country music, so I always run songs by her whether I wrote it or if somebody pitched it to me.

Back in I want to say 2011, Taylor Swift was on her 'Speak Now' tour. She was kind enough to bring me out as one of the openers on that tour. Between her and Miranda Lambert, who also helped me out that year, I got a pretty non-typical first tour as a fellow artist.

Snow Tha Product was dope. She wanted me on a song, so I did it for her. I ain't charge her nothing.

It's a beautiful thing to have time in the world, as a singer and as a musician, to make friends with people of the musical caliber of a Tommy Smith, an Arturo Sandoval, a Richard Galliano, a Till Broenner.

We'd love to collaborate with Sam Smith. I've told him. Many times. We've got loads of songs we've written that we can literally just hear his voice on.

Avicii's been a supporter of my music for years, and we've been writing songs together for a long time.

Having Dierks Bentley on a song is one of the coolest things I've ever gotten to experience. For one, him agreeing to do a song with me but two, getting to share that moment in the studio.

I really believed in 2 Chainz, I really believed in Future, and I was going to the studio with them every single day.

When I work with Dre, he usually does more than 100 records and then picks his favorites.

It was ages ago now, but when we started Bastille, I didn't necessarily want people to know or care if it was a band, and it came from a place, really, of just much rather having people listen to the songs rather than caring about the people making it.

I think Kendrick Lamar is great. It would be cool to do something with him.

Music is in Mississippi's DNA, whether it's the blues, country music, folk, or rock 'n' roll. It's not just a source of cultural pride, but also a strong contributor to our economy.

I wanted to work with Diplo for a long time.

Collaborating on 'Tusa' with Nicki Minaj came into my life unexpectedly and I wanted to keep it like that for my fans.

I really don't believe in going too far out of your way to hunt down somebody to do a song.

I done made music with Makonnen, Frank Ocean. We all make great music.

When Taylor Swift was first beginning to really take off, a couple of guys I knew in her band called and offered me a job on her tour playing acoustic guitar and singing background vocals, and they thought I would be a really good fit for it.

Rick Rubin said, well, I don't know that we will sell records. He said, I would like you to go with me and sit in my living room with a guitar and two microphones and just sing to your heart's content everything you ever wanted to record. I said, that sounds good to me. So I did that. And day after day, three weeks, I sang for him.

When it's me in my living room, it's pretty pure, and then what gets recorded involves more people, and it keeps escalating from there.

There is plenty of people I'd love to collaborate with, would love to produce with, would love to write songs with.

All music is based on country music. And that's why so many different kinds of people relate to it. There are more country music fans in New Jersey than there are down South.

I try to deliver because I don't believe that people are deliverin' the same quality of albums.