Darius Rucker Quotes

He learned through the way that my father and I felt about his songs, his country songs, that they were great songs. And then he went out and sang them for the audiences that we found, and he found a tremendous reaction to that.

'Rather Be' and 'Real Love' are two of the most fun songs to perform; they're such feel-good tracks. 'Rather Be,' especially - I've sung it so many times, but I'm still not bored of it.

'Hell is for Children' is amazing to do every night and 'Promises in the Dark' and 'Love Is a Battlefied,' of course, but my absolute favorite would be 'Heartbreaker.' It's the one that started everything, so it has a very special place in my heart. And it still rocks every night! It's so fun to do.

I don't have a favorite song that I've written. But I do have a favorite song: 'Always on My Mind,' the Willie Nelson version. If I could sing it like he do, I would sing it every night. I like the story it tells.

There's a place for all types of country music as long as there is honesty and realness and a real human experience for the fans.

As a kid I used to pretend I was John Denver, of all people, and play the guitar and sing Take Me Home, Country Roads.

Performing a song is intense. When I see people connecting, it makes it all worthwhile.

I'm not a go-out-with-a-band artist. I'm an intimate, storytelling folk artist. It guides the writing and makes for a concert that I'm proud of.

I'm really taken with 'Calling Me Home' by Alice Gerrard.

Bob Dylan is like an alien on this earth, and I love him! I cried when I saw him play live because I was so close to him.

I love a band that has a banjo, that does group harmonies and yells out the word 'Hey' or 'Woo.' I live for it.

I've always loved the song 'It Might as Well Be Spring'.

Theater is such its own living, breathing animal. You do a show every night, but it's different every night. Being on stage, you're experiencing a journey.

The first time I heard 'Georgia Peaches,' I absolutely loved it.

My favorite Bob Dylan record is the very first one where he sings one Bob Dylan song and the rest of them are his interpretations of the Dust Bowl-era folk songs, or even going back as far as the mass influx of people coming into the U.S. during the gold rush. His interpretations of those songs are incredible.

That's why we do this. In country music, we do this for this very reason... to impact people lyrically, to be a part of their lives.

I think Alison Krauss is one of the most amazing singers ever. As a songwriter - this is gonna sound cheesy - I love Randy Newman. And my mom passed on a love of Bob Dylan and Joni Mitchell. At one point I was so into the Indigo Girls, just like I was so into the Dixie Chicks, those female harmonies.

Jack Johnson, John Mayer, Neil Young and Bob Dylan are my main influences.

I've grown up on American songwriters my whole life - listening to Paul Simon and Bob Dylan and people like John Prine - you know, classic, real songwriters. They've been the lion's share of what I've really focused on as a writer and as influences, too.

I will go down on my deathbed telling my kids to find songs like 'Don't Take the Girl.'

There's too many favorite songs, so I'll just say right now my favorite song of all time is 'Poison' by Bert Jansch.

I've grown up on Bob Dylan and all that, but there was a certain standard set up by people before 1955.

I loved the Everly Brothers better than anybody.

I sing 'Blue Moon of Kentucky.' It's a country song. It's one of my favorites to sing.

I was four days old when I went to my first bluegrass festival.