I grew up listening to everything. And rock and roll has always been a big, big part of it - as big a part of what I do as any other type of music.
Country music in the mid-'90s was a big influence on my career, and I played all the songs that are referenced in '94' back in my club days. Joe Diffie was rocking a sick mullet, and he was hotter than ever... just putting out monster hit after monst...
I had an opportunity to play baseball in college, but I just didn't want to go to school. I started focusing on my music and it was game over!
Alabama - they were the masters of that. They could come out with 'Mountain Music' or 'Tennessee River' and then turn around and come out with 'Feels So Right.' Go out and have fun and be those guys that like to party, then turn around and make every...
There are people out there who are into traditional country music and for those people you have artists like Brad Paisley and Josh Turner and Alan Jackson. Then you have artists with a progressive style of country music, like myself and Eric Church a...
My producer, Michael Knox, he's kind of my eyes and ears on Music Row. While I'm out on the road, he's looking for songs, and then he and I will get together and go over songs.
I'm a singer and performer in a hybrid show that's standup, music and audience participation.
I had a portable 8-track player under all my ramps, cranking one of my four 8-tracks - Cars/'Candy-O,' Ramones/'Road To Ruin,' Cheap Trick/'Heaven Tonight' and the first Devo record. I don't remember skating without music.
I feel like in a lot of ways I can relate to the fans, just being a fan of music myself.
While I'm writing YA, I can't read YA, and the same with adult. I usually only listen to music while I'm writing YA.
Classical, Romantic, and Baroque music, that's what I really like.
Writing music is just something that I was born to do.
I get a lot of calls from families and people who have served time and they say, 'Thank you, Sheriff. I hate the tents.' That's music to my ears.
If you listen to a lot of music, it gradually seeps into your consciousness or your unconsciousness and comes out in your music.
You're just sort of searching for this 'thing' and sometimes you get it and sometimes you don't. All music is imperfect, but in jazz since you're improvising, at least the way I play, I'm trying to follow my train of thought in a solo.
Hunting, fishing, drawing, and music occupied my every moment. Cares I knew not, and cared naught about them.
Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense.
I always listen to music while I draw.
Because of the Thames I have always loved inland waterways - water in general, water sounds - there's music in water. Brooks babbling, fountains splashing. Weirs, waterfalls; tumbling, gushing.
I was lucky enough to be the lady that was asked to be Maria in the Sound Of Music, and that film was fortunate enough to be huge hit. The same with Mary Poppins. I got terribly lucky in that respect.
The role of Barbara, in Music for Millions, was literally a tonic for me.
