Jon Pardi Quotes

I had a drummer I really wanted to move to Nashville with me, and he's like, 'Naw, I can't go, man.' He never could pull the trigger. It's a big move. You just gotta be diehard - you gotta give it your all, you know.

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'Swagger' would be the word for 'Dirt On My Boots.' With the real funky drum loop and the ganjo rolling down, and then the fiddles and the guitar and steel, it really took an old school style where it's fiddle, steel, guitar, and mixed it with a drum loop.

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My California sunrise, there's a real mist in the air. I think of the mountains. You can smell the farm fields. You can smell the dirt and the lights and the whole sun.

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I chose to be this guy. It's who I want to be, and it's always been me - just keepin' it country.

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At 14, I was in my own little classic rock country band. Then, after high school, I started another band called Northern Comfort. That was based out of Chico, Calif.

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It's always a good feeling to be recognized for something.

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I love the story of the guy coming to Nashville and then kind of getting set down and told, 'This is how the town works,' which, I've totally been there. But the coolest thing about 'Out of Style' is it's a song within a song.

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I'm mixing country with kind of a modern twist to it.

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As a songwriter, you always want to search for something that's right in front of you that you can twist into something new.

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You gotta have a good beat to survive in modern country in general. Everyone wants to feel good, laugh, dance, and cry. But at the same time, they all want it to sound happy.

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I can be a traditionalist but also play with Luke Bryan and get the crowd to go crazy. I think that mix is a lot of what has kept me going and kept people fired up about the music.

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There's been a lot of wedding songs and proposals. It's cool because when they play it at weddings so, it means a lot to them. That's a big deal. They're always going to remember 'Head Over Boots' as played at their wedding.

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'Dirt on My Boots' was pegged as the second single from 'California Sunrise' from the get-go, and we felt like it was just a fun song to go with.

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I lean traditional, but 'Head Over Boots,' it's pretty country.

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There's a connection when people are dancing, laughing, and singing, and that definitely happens with 'Head Over Boots.'

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'Dirt On My Boots' is a very different song. I heard the melody, and I heard the lyrics, and I heard the drive of that song. I totally related. It was kinda me when I was on my bulldozer working for my dad.

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'Head Over Boots' is a shuffle, but it's more of a Motown laid-back shuffle than, say, a Dwight Yoakam shuffle.

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A lot of my fans, and a lot of country music fans, they still wear boots.

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I've really been studying lyrics, printing out lyrics to songs I love and reading them like a letter.

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I grew up in rural Dixon, CA, and I've been hunting with my father ever since I was a young boy. He taught me how to hunt and shoot, firearm safety, and have respect for the outdoors.

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I always want to just stay humble, and I always want to keep climbing.

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I love having those lyrics that at first make you think it's about one thing, but it's really about something so much more.

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I've been able to carve my way out with lyrics and melodies.

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You've got these guys that have this fresh, street, hip-hop country that sells a zillion. Keep doing that. I'll keep doing my stuff. We'll see how it goes.

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As a songwriter, we're looking for a good story, and we're always looking to push the limits.

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Take everything you can from what people say. Keep going and stick to your instincts. And what your soul tells you to do, use that.

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I can play with Florida Georgia Line. We can throw down with people. I think that's what sets me apart.

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There's so many great people in Country Radio, and I appreciate all the support they've given me.

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I'm more of a songwriter. I love writing songs. I love writing my songs. It's always been writing for me, and it makes it different when you're writing for yourself.

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As a songwriter, you always look for guys that you can write good with. Show up, have an idea, knock it out of the park.

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I like hearing fiddles, steel guitar, acoustics up loud - really rock & roll stuff but with a country sound behind it. That's just who I am. I'm not trying to prove a point; I am just doing what I like. But I don't have any problems with any other artist coming in and doing their own thing.

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I'm a guy who doesn't know the name of the chord, but I know that it sounds good.

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You gotta do both. You've got to be on those big tours, and you've got to be in the clubs.

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I'm a funny guy. You've got to be able to make fun of yourself. We only live once.

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If you get music on a personal level, you are doing something right. It's not just in one ear and out the other.

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I always want to have the traditional country soul while meeting the new standards of country music.

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Getting a beginner publishing deal really helped me gain the skills. I just kept writing and writing. You just take everything out of life and turn it into an idea or a melody or a song and find the best writers you can to write with that fit you and know what you want to do.

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There's so much you can learn from being on a big tour and so much you can learn from being in the clubs.

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My grandmother loved country music, and she's the one who really got me into country music. She had George Strait tapes, a bunch of them. I remember listening to tapes, taking them out, the covers and the back.

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I played the bars in northern California since I was 18. We played at least three hours, and there's no which-way about it: That definitely helped.

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We travel so much as touring musicians and artists that sometimes, when you hear a great song that you really think could be on your project, you go ahead and record it instead of try to write it.

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I started playing guitar by the time I was 9.

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I was a huge Garth Brooks fan.

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People out west love country music.

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I love traditional country music, and I feel like there's a need for it and a want for it. But I enjoy everybody in country music.

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I'd like to start a tradition of getting No. 1s - how 'bout that?

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If you can take a piece of life and put it in a song, it's going to be a good song - especially if it's from the heart.

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Radio has had my back since 'Missin' You Crazy,' which was a very traditional kind of song.

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Having two back-to-back No. 1's is unbelievable.

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I love coming back around Northern California.

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California is one of the most country-est states there is. We're really country.

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I'm trying to write songs to appeal to everybody.

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I'm just thankful I'm surrounded by good people.

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For my shows, I don't play too many slow songs.

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I love performing, and if I didn't love it, I wouldn't be doing it.

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What I can feel the most and what I can remember the most are the melodies I want to write to.

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It's been so great to have an album people believe in.

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I'm helping country sound a little more country.

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I'm moving forward and getting new fans at every show.

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I just have fun on stage. There's nothing premolded out there. I try to always do something different.

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My music is my No. 1, and I've got people who believe in me and keep me going. I'm thankful.

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