Quotes by Brett Young - Page 1

It's really hard to chase a lofty dream.
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Lofty
Chase
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I have always been a super-emotional dude.
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Always Been
Dude
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My first concert was Boyz II Men and Mariah Carey.
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Concert
Mariah Carey
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The only way to have longevity is to have good songs.
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Longevity
Good Way Only
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I'm personally a hopeless romantic. I always have been.
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Hopeless
Hopeless Romantic
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It is such a surreal feeling to have my first single go No. 1!
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Surreal
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It's funny how God will change your plans for you when he's ready.
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Plans
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John Mayer will be around forever, like the Eagles and Eric Clapton.
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Eagles
Mayer
Clapton
Eric Clapton
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The first country song I ever heard was Tim McGraw's 'Don't Take the Girl.'
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Tim
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I was writing and playing in California for 11 years before I moved to Nashville.
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California
Nashville
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'In Case You Didn't Know' was written in Mexico, actually, on a songwriter's retreat.
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Mexico
Retreat
Written
Actually
Case
Songwriter
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I always loved music, I just never thought of it as a career. Baseball was always my thing.
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Baseball
Music Always Never
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I don't know what it is in me that refuses to quit, but I think it's kind of like, dare to dream.
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Dare
Quit
Refuses
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I had the best example set by my parents for what a couple can - and, in my opinion, should - be.
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In My Opinion
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I turned on 'One Tree Hill,' heard the opening song, and went, 'I got to know whose voice that is.'
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Opening
Tree
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I'm still obsessed with the beach whenever I'm home; when I'm on the beach, it feels like home to me.
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Beach
Home Me Like
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It might be a little embarrassing, but I never ever missed an episode of 'Dawson's Creek' growing up.
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Embarrassing
Growing Up
Might
Never Growing Up Up
Creek
Dawson
Episode
Missed
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In Nashville, everybody just wants to write the best songs. So it's a very inviting songwriting community.
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Inviting
Nashville
Songwriting
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I say this all the time: I've always been really good at managing my expectations so that I'm not let down.
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Let Down
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It is such a crazy idea that maybe something that I wrote or something that I put on a record would affect people at all.
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Affect
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There is a lot of California in my... sound, and a ton of it is the laid-back nature of Southern Californians and the beach.
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Beach
California
Ton
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I surfed until I was 18, and being the athlete that I am, I got really frustrated with how I wasn't really getting any better.
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Athlete
Frustrated
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I always say, 'If you want to make God laugh, tell Him your plans.' I couldn't be happier with where I ended up and how it worked out.
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Plans
God Always Your
Ended
Happier
Laugh
Worked
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Californian artists are kind of willing to push the limits a little bit further just because that's kind of our mentality in that state.
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Limits
Mentality
Further
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My dad's a pastor; I grew up in the church, and it's really easy to just have a healthy respect for what some people might be sensitive to.
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Pastor
Sensitive
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I like the idea of a relationship where you can need and rely on each other and not feel needy and not feel like that makes you not independent.
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Needy
Rely
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For me, I never really understood why certain lines had to be crossed in order to get a point across. There's a PG way to say everything, in my opinion.
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Me Way Never
Crossed
In My Opinion
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The fact of the matter is, if music is something that you want to do, you need to stick with it with the idea that you're going to do it until it works.
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Music
Matter
Works
Idea
Fact
Stick
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Country music isn't about being better than the guy next to you - it's just making sure that you keep working hard enough to deserve the position that you get in.
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Deserve
Country Music
Working Hard
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In a very broad statement, or mentality, you just want as many fans as you can have of your music. You want people to write songs for and connect with and play shows for.
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Mentality
Music Your People
Broad
Connect
Music People Fans
Statement
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My very first tattoo was a crown of thorns around my upper left arm that I have since gotten covered up, because I got it right before Pamela Anderson came out with 'Barb Wire.'
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Covered
Tattoo
Thorns
Wire
Anderson
Arm
Crown
Upper
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While I don't feel like I'm an evangelist, country music is about to give me a platform, and so keeping it topically acceptable for everybody, I hope that sets some sort of example.
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Acceptable
Give Me
Hope Music Me
Country Music
Evangelist
Platform
Sets
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I think Valentine's Day is one of those holidays like New Year's where people develop such high expectations that even if it's a decent day, it doesn't live up, and it's disappointing.
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Valentine
Valentine's Day
Decent
Disappointing
High Expectations
Holidays
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I knew I would always be an artist, but when you move to Nashville, this is a writer's town. I moved here to focus on that and started pitching demos and immediately was asked to be an artist.
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Demos
Nashville
Pitching
Immediately
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I tried to mix country music into my sets in L.A., and I noticed that was when people checked out. And I was like, 'That doesn't make sense. The genre that I love the most is the one that doesn't work.'
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Love Work Music
Checked
Country Music
Mix
Noticed
Sets
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When I was young, I would just write poems into textbooks in class. Everybody needs that outlet. For me, I think it's less about learning about myself and more about just needing to get things out sometimes.
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Textbooks
Learning Myself Me
Needing
Outlet
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I think I realized my parents' relationship was special when I had my first girlfriend, and she came from a broken marriage. I watched how much closeness there was between her and her mom, and also how much bickering.
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Bickering
Broken
Closeness
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I don't really see why some of those topical lines have to be crossed to get a point across. I want a mother and daughter, a teenage girl and her mom, to be able to come to the show and both enjoy it on the same level.
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Teenage
Teenage Girl
Crossed
Same Level
Topical
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I moved to Nashville with the same kind of mindset that I had in L.A., and that is to make sure you don't get outworked by anybody and make sure you're always writing songs and take every opportunity to play that you can.
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Mindset
Nashville
Every Opportunity
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Gavin DeGraw - his first record is the reason that I wanted to start writing music. The way that he says something that everybody says on a regular basis but he says it differently. It makes you kind of perk up and listen.
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Perk
Regular
Regular Basis
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If something's gonna make you happy, and you know it's gonna make you happy, and it's what you want more than anything in the world, don't let someone else discourage you and talk you out of doing it just because they're doubters.
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Discourage
More Than Anything
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I try not to take any liberties when it comes to being factual. Sometimes you have to, just to make the song sound good. But I feel like, personally, if you've lived it, then you shouldn't stretch the truth. It should be that experience.
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Factual
Song
Liberties
Personally
Stretch
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If I want people to connect to my words and my stories, I need to tell them where they came from. Because then, when you break into song, they have kind of a blueprint for why I wrote that song, so they can come to it with something they went through that helps them connect to it.
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Blueprint
Connect
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The power of a label and radio and a booking agency and all that - you never know until you experience it the first time, but being able to have a song on radio, but then go play a show for people that have heard the song on radio, and having it sung back to you, is - I don't know how to describe it.
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Agency
Booking
Describe
Label
Sung
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We've gotten to play shows where I'm the headliner, so people are buying tickets to come see me, and that's when you really learn, 'Okay, who's listening to this music?' That and social media. But I couldn't feel luckier about the fan base that is starting to grow... People have just been super, super supportive and awesome.
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Buying
Social Media
Supportive
Tickets
Awesome
Base
Music Social Media Me
Fan Base
Luckier
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When it's your words, and then you watch it connect with an audience as the artist, I kinda reflect back on the writing process and why those words were important to me. And to watch people sing it back, I mean, that kinda means everything because that's the whole point for me - performance and songwriting - is to connect with people.
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Songwriting
Writing Process
Your Me Important
Connect
Reflect
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My parents' example of a loving, caring relationship, I think, has affected my songwriting a ton and allowed me to start writing love songs that people could connect to without sounding like you're being cheesy, because they're coming from a real place, something that I saw coming up. I think they're a huge influence on my songwriting.
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Affected
Caring
Cheesy
Example
Influence
Songwriting
Love Relationship Me
Allowed
Connect
Huge Influence
Love Songs
Real Place
Ton
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There's a fundamental difference between how often men remember to say 'I love you' and how often women want to hear 'I love you.' For the most part, it's on the guy. He's not withholding it intentionally. It's just that we kind of miss the point sometimes, that even in the most nonchalant way, telling the person how you feel is important.
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Withholding
Love Women Men
Fundamental
Fundamental Difference
Intentionally
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