Then Brad Paisley Quotes & Sayings

I have a very down-to-earth father. My wife is an actress and famous herself is more down-to-earth than anyone I know. — Brad Paisley

No one dislikes LL Cool J. If you meet LL Cool J, you fall in love with LL Cool J. LL and I had mutual friends, and he and I had always talked about doing something. My fans know LL's music. And I love him - we're blood brothers at this point. We've been through the fire together. I know no finer person. — Brad Paisley

She's not perfect, but she tries so hard for me. And I thank God, that she isn't, cause how boring that would be. — Brad Paisley

When I was a teenager, my biggest lessons came from Kenny Chesney, Tim McGraw, George Strait, Rascal Flatts and Brad Paisley. I learned so much from opening up for those artists, and it also taught me how to treat your opening acts and make them feel like they're part of a family, not just a tour. — Taylor Swift

My father's a firefighter. He was my whole life. And my brother-in-law and several family members are firefighters. — Brad Paisley

Well one thing's for sure.. all you really need is love. — Brad Paisley

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 and Luke Bryan and Miranda Lambert. — Jason Aldean

It's a very smart, progressive bunch, these people that make country music. They're not country hicks sitting behind a desk with a big cigar giving out record deals and driving round in Cadillacs with cattle horns on the front grille: it's a bunch of really wonderful, open-minded, great people down on Music Row that make this music. — Brad Paisley

I love any and all situations where you celebrate creativity. — Brad Paisley

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

I'm a huge, huge fan of almost everything British. I love 'The Office' - I was a faithful follower of that show before the American version. — Brad Paisley

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. — Brad Paisley

Guitar playing isn't really for everybody. — Brad Paisley

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. — Brad Paisley

When Ray Flacke came out, it was like 'What in the heck is this?' ... there's a guy who had that Tele players attitude, and he plugged straight into that amp with a delay, and it was unbelievable the way he would bend those big strings ... he was really unique ... — Brad Paisley

What good is all that knowing the best thing that I had going is gone? — Brad Paisley

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. — Brad Paisley

I've heard my share of Van Halen. I never liked rock. — Brad Paisley

I've been on the road I think probably three years. — Brad Paisley

I jetset around and play these songs and get to hang with some pretty amazing people, then I go home to a really great farm, though actually it's a disaster area of a farm at the moment. But it's certainly a blast. I wouldn't trade lives with anyone right now. — Brad Paisley

If you were to hold me to a standard of, 'What are you doing, singing about a scratch-off ticket at your level of success?' then my music's gonna be ridiculous. — Brad Paisley

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'. — Brad Paisley

I tended to lean towards the guys who both sang and played, such as Ricky Skaggs, Vince Gill, Steve Wariner ... And at the other end of the spectrum, I had Eric Clapton in a rock and blues sense, jazz guys such as Tal Farlow and Les Paul ... Then Chet Atkins-type stuff. — Brad Paisley

To be a true artist, I have to be true to who I am now and write that way. — Brad Paisley

Jackass millionaires, hey, hey, Hollywood, here we come. — Brad Paisley

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

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

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. — Brad Paisley

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

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

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.. — Brad Paisley

I love being an enigma. Every time I'm tempted to respond to someone who tries to put me in a box, politically - you know, someone who gets on the Internet and says, you're pro-gun, or you're anti-gun - I stop and say to myself, 'This is great; this is what I wanted. I wanted to be the guy you can't figure out.' — Brad Paisley

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

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

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. — Brad Paisley

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. — Brad Paisley

When I got married, I hired a great choir - the St. James Choir, an all-black gospel choir - to sing at my wedding. — Brad Paisley

I take his talent and his passion with me - to the stage of the Opry, to the podium at the CMA Awards, to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, into my own living room. I am the realization of my grandfather's dream. I am a player. — Brad Paisley

People were always asking me who I wanted to tour with, and I always said Jason Aldean or Brad Paisley. — Jana Kramer

Rock Band never got anybody a date. Never. — Brad Paisley

Tomorrow, is the first blank page of a 365 page book. Write a good one. — Brad Paisley

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! ... — Brad Paisley