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It turns out, the bikers and the truckers and people in dive bars are the nicest people in the world.

- Ashley McBryde

World, Dive, Nicest, Bars

I grew up listening to an album start to finish, and you don't skip songs. You don't listen to a Paul Simon record and skip a song: you listen to it the same way you would eat a meal... the way the person who prepared that meal for you means for you to experience it. That's how you should do it before you add salt and pepper to it.

- Ashley McBryde

Prepared, Before, Pepper, None

Singing 'Family Tradition' with Hank Jr. was a pee-your-pants moment. Hank comes over while I'm singing and puts his arm around me, and my knees nearly buckled. You can put off the fact that this is reality, but when he came over, there was just no denying. I just lost cabin pressure.

- Ashley McBryde

Fact, Knees, Hank, Family Tradition

It's humbling when people sing back to you!

- Ashley McBryde

People, Back, Sing, Humbling

In bluegrass, there's a lot of joke-telling and a lot of banter between bandmates. It's like improv or watching the 'Carol Burnett Show.'

- Ashley McBryde

Like, Show, Improv, Burnett

Everything I ever needed came out of a radio and a dashboard. My Mount Rushmore of what was cool came out of a radio - Trisha Yearwood, Patty Loveless, Mark Chesnutt.

- Ashley McBryde

Cool, Needed, Mount, Patty

As I got a little older, I discovered Lori McKenna and Patty Griffin and found out how many other tools we have as songwriters, that there's storytelling and there's ear candy, and that there is a place where they meet, too, and both of those women are really good at doing that.

- Ashley McBryde

Doing, Other, Discovered, Patty

You know me: jeans, T-shirts, boots, all the time.

- Ashley McBryde

Time, Me, Know, Boots

I keep a $2 bill rolled up in every pair of boots I own because one time, an older guy came up to me at a farmer's market I was playing in Memphis, handed me a $2 bill, and said, 'Stick this in your boot.' And when I stood back up, he handed me a $100 bill and said, 'Thanks for listening to me. Stick this in your pocket.'

- Ashley McBryde

Own, Back, Stood, Boots

In my musically formative years, I grew up listening to Suzy Bogguss, Trisha Yearwood, Terri Clark.

- Ashley McBryde

Listening, Years, Grew, Terri

If you've ever been in a bar with a bunch of old sailors and see a guy that has an eagle tattooed across his chest, that guy has seen some stuff.

- Ashley McBryde

Some, Been, Tattooed, Sailors

When I was growing up, radio DJs were celebrities, not just the people singing the songs.

- Ashley McBryde

Singing, People, Celebrities, DJs

I have a big love for jazz music. The only thing I hated about singing with a jazz band was having to wear a gown to everything.

- Ashley McBryde

Love, Big, Having, Gown

I started playing mandolin when I was three or four years old because I was too small to be playing guitar. As I got older and more responsible with holding instruments, I was allowed to play my mom's guitar that she had.

- Ashley McBryde

Small, Play, Allowed, Mandolin

I love to think on my feet, and I love to be able to feel from a close proximity how things are going.

- Ashley McBryde

Love, Feet, Think, Proximity

When you see a chick that's not the skinniest girl in the room, covered in tattoos, you go, 'That girl wants to stick it to the man.' But we don't give a damn about the man. At all. We just want to make music.

- Ashley McBryde

Want, Give, Go, Chick

The thing about bikers and truckers is they're just regular folks, and that's definitely my demographic.

- Ashley McBryde

About, Definitely, Folks, Regular

I listened to a lot of No Doubt stuff when I was in high school - or maybe it was middle school... I don't want to age myself too much!

- Ashley McBryde

Want, Middle, Maybe, Middle School

I do know where I'm from, and I'm proud to be an Arkansan and to represent country music.

- Ashley McBryde

Music, Proud, Country, Represent

I grew up playing bluegrass as a youngster, and I'm happy that I did.

- Ashley McBryde

Happy, Bluegrass, Playing, Youngster

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

- Ashley McBryde

Old, Four, Festival, Bluegrass

I get recognized more for my tattoos than my face.

- Ashley McBryde

Face, More, Get, Tattoos

Nothing lights a fire under you like somebody saying, 'You're not going to be able to do it.'

- Ashley McBryde

Nothing, Like, Going, Lights

The day Guy Clark passed away was the day we wrote 'Girl Goin' Nowhere.' It was the first day I had met Jeremy Bussey, who I wrote the song with.

- Ashley McBryde

Song, Away, Wrote, Clark

That's what you do with the worst day ever: you flip it on its back.

- Ashley McBryde

Back, Worst, Ever, Flip

I haven't shut up, I think, since I was born. I tend to talk a lot, and I sing constantly, and I know that it can be kind of annoying, but I would say I sound a lot like my mom.

- Ashley McBryde

Sound, Shut, I Think, Annoying

I'm little. I'm pale. I'm not strong. But bad things are scared of me. I think it's because my dad was a preacher growing up, and I was raised in the Church of Christ.

- Ashley McBryde

Strong, Bad, I Think, Pale

Your fame and your success moves much more rapidly than your ability to fund it.

- Ashley McBryde

Success, Moves, Fund, Rapidly

I've been in T- shirts and jeans since I was a kid. I don't have to show you a bunch of my skin for you to listen to my songs.

- Ashley McBryde

Kid, Show, Been, T

I was lucky to grow up in the '90s, when we had just as many strong female artists as male artists. That's a world I would like to live in again.

- Ashley McBryde

Strong, Grow, Lucky, Female Artists

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