Eric Church famous quotes

I wouldn't be the man I am today, If not for those I've loved along the way
-- Eric Church

#Men #Today #Way

We're all given a window of opportunity, I think all artists are, of any genre. A window when you're truly relevant, the spotlight's on you and people are watching what you do.
-- Eric Church

#Artist #Opportunity #Thinking

Funny how a melody sounds like a memory.
-- Eric Church

#Memories #Sound #Melody

When you play the bars, you pay your dues. It does matter that you know those things [songs]. And the great thing for me, too, is that I draw on that stuff as influences. It's also stuff that you put in the tank that you pull from to make records.
-- Eric Church

#Song #Play #Pay

There's just a lot of people that hold on to what country means to them. I love fiddle, I love steel, but I don't think it should be a rule that it has to be used in every song. I think that's not what defines or makes country music.
-- Eric Church

#Country #Song #Mean

The evolution of the music is what allows it to survive.
-- Eric Church

#Evolution #Music Is

Many people have come to think they can just wake up and have things handed to them.
-- Eric Church

#Thinking #People #Wake Up

I went to my dad when I was 17 and said, 'I want to be a country music star.' Which every dad loves to hear. And he said, 'I want you to go to college.' So we had a discussion. And I'm pretty stubborn. I'm a lot like him. And he said, 'If you go to college and graduate, I'll pay your first six months of rent in Nashville.' So he bribed me.
-- Eric Church

#Country #Stars #Dad

As far as writing, it's grown because I've really grown comfortable with who I am.
-- Eric Church

#Writing #Who I Am

I can't stand making records.
-- Eric Church

#Records

I don't care if I starve.
-- Eric Church

#Care

I have a huge chip on my shoulder.
-- Eric Church

#Chips #Shoulders

I have a new hobby and it's pretty much logging.
-- Eric Church

#Hobbies #Logging

I want to be the guy out there on the edge.
-- Eric Church

#Guy #Want

I'm going to do everything I can to keep from being mainstream.
-- Eric Church

#Mainstream

I'm not a trust-fund type.
-- Eric Church

#Type #Fund

Stay young and wild as long as you can
-- Eric Church

#Long #Young

Now me and my brother go to see him some times but he don't have much to say anymore. So we sit on his headstone with a fifth of Jack D. Here's to a long line of sinners like me.
-- Eric Church

#Brother #Long #Lines

I'd trusted my fan base, I'd trusted the my gut, and I'd trusted the music. ...the real experts are out there in front of you every night. They're the ones buying the tickets and coming to the shows. They're the professionals in this business, and they're the only ones who can tell you which songs have the ability to move them.
-- Eric Church

#Song #Real #Moving

Man, if anybody knew the path that we've been on, no one in their right mind would ever try to duplicate it. That's something Nashville always tries to do, though. If something is successful, they try to repeat it by telling other people, "Hey, do what that guy did." I just don't think it works that way. The first one who gest there, the one that cuts the path ... it's always the roughest path but I think it's got the most reward at the end.
-- Eric Church

#Music #Successful #Cutting

Bob Seger was a huge inspiration.
-- Eric Church

#Inspiration #Bob

Everybody always tells you what an awesome and unique experience being a parent is. Words can never do the feeling justice.
-- Eric Church

#Unique #Justice #Parent

I am very thankful and blessed to have a healthy and happy baby boy and baby mama.
-- Eric Church

#Baby #Blessed #Boys

If I was concerned about my legacy, there’s no way I would ever sit there [and be a reality-show judge]. Once your career becomes about some¬thing other than the music, then that’s what it is. I’ll never make that mistake.
-- Eric Church

#Mistake #Reality #Careers

I think right now, you've seen these artists pop up over the last decade who've flirted with branching together a lot of different kinds of music. Some of them have been huge, and sold millions of records. And I think over time it's become a little bit of what the industry can be.
-- Eric Church

#Artist #Thinking #Together

The most important thing for me as an artist is having an identity.
-- Eric Church

#Artist #Important #Identity

The key to songwriting is just to be able to observe, and put yourself in situations to be around people, and let those ideas come to you.
-- Eric Church

#Keys #Ideas #People

It's always the roughest path, but I think it's got the most reward at the end.
-- Eric Church

#Thinking #Rewards #Path

I don't use the big video screens that a lot of other artists use because personally, I think it's kind of a crutch. I think sometimes it's like watching television as opposed to really getting involved with what is happening onstage and the people in your section.
-- Eric Church

#Artist #Thinking #People

When I feel like every day when I get up I'm writing songs, that's the time to make a record.
-- Eric Church

#Song #Writing #Records

The town I came from really had one industry, and that was furniture.
-- Eric Church

#Towns #Furniture

Music's cyclical. There's always that next generation that always comes along.
-- Eric Church

#Generations #Next #Next Generation

Life doesn't get more real than having a newborn at home.
-- Eric Church

#Real #Home #Newborn

I've played shows with injuries before but unfortunately cannot overcome having no voice.
-- Eric Church

#Voice #Overcoming #Injury

I've always made music that was representative of real life.
-- Eric Church

#Real #Real Life #Made

If I wanted the ticket to be a $200 ticket, I'd have made it a $200 ticket, but I don't want it to be that.
-- Eric Church

#Want #Tickets #Made