Brad Paisley Quotes

Tomorrow is the first blank page of a 365-page book. Write a good one.

Even on the most serious ballads, I'll throw in a tongue-in-cheek remark.

She's a yellow pair of running shoes, a holey pair of jeans. She looks great in cheap sunglasses, she looks great in anything. She's, "I want a piece of chocolate cake; take me to a movie." She's a, "I can't find a thing to wear." Now and then she's moody. She's a Saturn with a sunroof with her brown hair blowing. She's a warm conversation I wouldn't miss for nothing. She's a fighter when she's mad and she's a lover when she's lovin'.

Anytime you do something from the heart, people just know it.

You can't kill it with goodbye; It always finds a place to hide inside your heart for your whole life. Love is never-ending.

I hope I'm at least half the dad that he didn't have to be.

You look out there and there's people that, their day is changed because of your contribution to it.

Country music has become the music that best represents the reality of American life.

I don't stare at a sheet of paper and try to think of a good word to use. I try to see where the story should go.

If there's a song where there's a possibility of guitar stuff that would be fun to listen to, go for it. Don't worry about what anybody thinks.

I love any and all situations where you celebrate creativity.

As a guitar player, it's harder for me to impress somebody than it is to write a song that they like.

When a single mom goes out on a date with somebody new. It always winds up feeling more like a job interview.

I like to look at the songs like they're little movies.

Playing live is about going for it .. it's about bringing it ... you should see a bunch of people trying out stuff, actually performing, instead of learning the record and recreating it note for note. I can't play the show the same way every night .. I really need to be in a creative environment, every night or I'll go nuts ... my manager accuses me of singing just long enough to get me to my next guitar solo - which is true.

Rock Band never got anybody a date. Never.

Alison Krauss is definitely my favorite singer that's ever lived. I've never heard anyone like her.

If you fall in love with somebody, then you're not even worried about your bills. Love can take your mind off of anything.

Yea there ain't nothing not affected when two hearts get connected. All that is will be or ever was; every single choice we make; every breath we get to take is all because two people fell in love.

It comes down to building your own world out here on the road. It's who you surround yourself with. My band and crew are really positive guys.

This is real, this is your life in a song...this is country music.

Even in your darkest moments, you'll think of something that'll crack you up.

Deep down, I'm just a West Virginia hillbilly.

I'm sure there are a few things in my CD collection that might surprise people. I like classical music, the blues, and I'm a big fan of alternative rock.

I go to eat dinner with my folks when I'm home. I think that's the trick.

I really worked to try and be creative enough on the guitar parts so those who aren't real educated would know that there was some difficulty in doing it.

When they say you're the best, I always remember that the majority of the audience probably thinks someone else should have gotten the award.

The nice thing about the world that I've been able to inhabit for the last couple of years is that I'm given a lot of freedom. Not all artists really get that.

Willie Nelson, out there 200 days a year, calls his band family. And it is.

If I get an idea for a song, I have a melody for it. I'm a musician first. I'm not limited by the fretboard.

If you're really on top, you probably didn't do that great, 'cause you have to water it down a bit for it to get that mass appeal

Guitar playing isn't really for everybody.

I changed my mindset and figured, Why not try to be really entertaining instrumentally?

Albert Lee and I have become real close friends, and he comes out anytime I'm in the L.A. area, and he'll sit in for the whole show ! ... we've got a habit of doing that ... in Austin Redd Volkaert does the same thing ... it's fun ... I love to make it a guitar thing and the audience doesn't know any different - they think he's some new band member they don't know. They don't realize Albert's the reason we all play Teles!.

Today she met me at the door, said I would have to choose, if I picked up that fishing rod today, she'd be packing all her things and she'd be gone by noon....well I'm gonna miss her when I get home tonight.

Pilgrims travel to Jerusalem to see the Holy Land, and the foundations of their faith. People go to Washington, D.C. to see the workings of government, and the foundation of our country. And fans flock to Nashville to see the foundation of country music, the Grand Ole Opry.

Someday I'm gonna be famous. Do I have talent, well, no. These days you really don't need it.

That there's no more important decision in life than who you marry.

... there are a lot of shredders in country music - Redd Volkaert, Brent Mason, Dan Huff .. and guys like that

I can't see this world unless I go/ outside my southern comfort zone.

In the past, I tried to be more of a typical session guitarist. I wasn't so concerned with impressing anybody.

Jackass millionaires, hey, hey, Hollywood, here we come.

I get to cry to Barbara Walters, when things don't go my way. I'll get community service no matter which laws I break.

I'm aware of the fact that a lot of talented people out there will never get this chance.

I imagine there's a market for total depression. I grew up on George Jones and that really dark stuff.

I have a to-do list and I have a farm I care for, and things I like to do for fun - going to movies and all that stuff. It's a painfully normal life!

Can't wait to date a supermodel, can't wait to sue my Dad. Can't wait to wreck a Ferrari, on the way to rehab.

We're all about trying to play better every night, not just singing hit songs ... we ad lib, and every night there's jamming .. it's almost like the Grateful Dead meets Buck Owens some nights, because we'll go off on little adventures and sometimes we do crash the bus!.

You think back to Tele players, and James Burton was the one who started it all. He inspired Roy Nichols (guitar for Merle Haggard & the Strangers), Don Rich (guitar for Buck Owens & the Buckaroos), and guys like that to push the envelope and expand on that sound... I really identify with that kind of thinking ... those guys to me are the reason why any of us do this.

I can fall in and out of love, have marriages that barely last a month. When they go down the drain, I'll blame it on the fame.