Music Quotes

I love to write honest songs that name real people, then get up onstage and live out those emotions in front of 15,000 people.

I really believe we in the music industry can work together to find a way to bond technology with integrity and just really hope we can teach the younger generation the value of investment in music rather than the ephemeral consumption of it.

My favorite place in the whole world is Nashville. Because it's my home, it's Music City. It's like, everybody there is so artistic and so creative, and nice! Everybody's really friendly.

My definition of country music is really pretty simple. It's when someone sings about their life and what they know, from an authentic place.

Poetry and lyrics are very similar. Making words bounce off a page.

In my opinion, the only way to conquer stage fright is to get up on stage and play. Every time you play another show, it gets better and better.

Love Story' I wrote on my bedroom floor in about 20 minutes.

There's a lot of pressure putting an album out all over the world and hoping people everywhere like it.

I've never gotten thick skin. If you close yourself off and you get this protective armor, there is a price you pay with that - of not feeling. And feeling is important when you are a songwriter.

I think Kenny Chesney or Garth Brooks would be the coolest duet partners. I look up to them so much for their work ethics.

I have so many playlists full of Rihanna, Nicki Minaj, Lil Wayne, Chris Brown.

I didn't want to just be another girl singer. I wanted there to be something that set me apart.

Everybody has that point in their life where you hit a crossroads and you've had a bunch of bad days and there's different ways you can deal with it and the way I dealt with it was I just turned completely to music.

I have been singing randomly, obsessively, obnoxiously for as long as I can remember.

If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once a week.

The loss of these tastes [for poetry and music] is a loss of happiness, and may possibly be injurious to the intellect, and more probably to the moral character, by enfeebling the emotional part of our nature.

Only picture to yourself a nice soft wife on a sofa with good fire, & books & music.

Over the years I have discovered that ideas come through an intense desire for them; continually desiring, the mind becomes a watch-tower on the lookout for incidents that may excite the imagination - music, a sunset, may give image to an idea.

Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned. May not one lost soul be permitted to abstain?

Without music we shall surely perish of drink, morphia, and all sorts of artificial exaggerations of the cruder delights of the senses.