Brad Paisley Quotes

It was with deep interest that my companion and myself, both now about to see and examine the beauties of a tropical country for the first time, gazed on the land where I, at least, eventually spent eleven of the best years of my life.

I went to Florida when I was 15. That was my first time in America, so you learn about how different the regions are.

I had a good time shooting in New Zealand. I almost bought a home there while I was there, because I loved it so much.

I didn't come east of the Mississippi for the first time in my life until I was 26 years of age, but I knew. I read magazines, I listened to radio, I watched television. I knew there was something out there, and I wanted a part of it.

I try to go out, check out the town, and have a good time. It's a life experience: not everyone gets the chance to see the world and play golf, do the thing you love while travelling.

Each time that I have two or three days off, I'm off somewhere in California.

Waterworld was the best time of my life. It was physically demanding, but it was fun. I mean, you're in Hawaii for nine months shooting on the water every day.

It's been really nice to see different counties that I might never have visited before.

A travel book is about someone who goes somewhere, travels on the ground, sees something and spends quite a lot of time doing it, and has a hard time, and then comes back and writes about it. It's not about inventing.

I traveled enormously during the 1960's, when you measured everything by where you traveled and what you did as travelers.

After college, I drove across the country twice with friends. It was one of the most fascinating experiences of my life. I find it really inspiring seeing the country that way.

For my band's debut tour in 2011, we road-tripped across the country in a 15-passenger van. It was the first time I'd left Alabama. I drove through scenery I'd only ever seen in calendars: auburn leaves falling in Vermont, the sun setting over purple mountains in Arizona. It was incredible.

I've spent the better part of the last twenty-five years doing a lot of traveling.

I don't like going where I've already been. Life is a myriad of territories to discover. I don't want to waste time with what I already know.

I've been to two festivals in my life, and I've never been to Toronto. I haven't really been making festival movies. This is new territory for me.

I collect memories. I look for opportunities to try new things, go to new places, and meet new people all the time.

Just traveling the world, and getting to live the highs and lows of what we do, makes you a better talent and a better performer.

Travel gives a character of experience to our knowledge, and brings the figures on the tablet of memory into strong relief.

If you're offered a seat on a rocket ship, don't ask what seat! Just get on.

And if travel is like love, it is, in the end, mostly because it's a heightened state of awareness, in which we are mindful, receptive, undimmed by familiarity and ready to be transformed. That is why the best trips, like the best love affairs, never really end.

I was facing life for the first time. I was 12 years old, but I felt like a 20 year old. I knew then what life was.

This is what holidays, travels, vacations are about. It is not really rest or even leisure we chase. We strain to renew our capacity for wonder to shock ourselves into astonishment once again.

Me and Ma have a deal, we're going to try everything one time so we know what we like.

The tourist travels in his own atmosphere like a snail in his shell and stands, as it were, on his own perambulating doorstep to look at the continents of the world. But if you discard all this, and sally forth with a leisurely and blank mind, there is no knowing what may not happen to you.

He who travels much has this advantage over others – that the things he remembers soon become remote, so that in a short time they acquire the vague and poetical quality which is only given to other things by time. He who has not traveled at all has this disadvantage – that all his memories are of things present somewhere, since the places with which all his memories are concerned are present.