Quotes by Zac Brown - Page 2

Sir Rosevelt is a little more of a persona, and we dress up, three-piece Tom Ford suits, and it's a little more refined, visually.
Zac Brown /
Persona
Refined
Suits
Ford
Sir
Tom
Tom Ford
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I was a music fan first way before I started creating it, so I still get giddy when I get to be around people that I respect so much.
Zac Brown /
Respect
Creating
Giddy
Music People Way
Fan
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All my siblings being all different ages meant I got exposed to music that was 20-30 years older than me. And that was a big influence.
Zac Brown /
Different Ages
Exposed
Influence
Sibling
Ages
Music Me Influence
Big Influence
Music Me Big
Meant
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I knew that the right person for Crossroads would come along if we were just patient and made sure that we didn't try to force anything.
Zac Brown /
Crossroads
Patient
Trying
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I can't stand having cold air blowing in my ears, so when it's cold at my house, or if I am outside, I am going to have my ears covered up.
Zac Brown /
Covered
Ears
Blowing
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I love to smoke things; there's usually something always in the pot outside. That smell of something in the smoker just reminds me of home.
Zac Brown /
Smell
Smoke
Love Home Me
Reminds
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To get to record and to do things with the legends, and with the people that are your musical heroes, that's the biggest honor as an artist.
Zac Brown /
Honor
Legends
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I don't think a lot of bands and artists work as hard as we do on the creation, on the writing, the arrangements and the recording in our format.
Zac Brown /
Arrangements
Creation
Format
Artists
Work Hard Think
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Everybody in my family cooks, so growing up and being around it... if I was going to spend time with everybody, it was helping them in the kitchen.
Zac Brown /
Cooks
Helping
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Other people pull off amazing festivals and events and things like that. I think ours is a little bit different, and that's what makes us distinct.
Zac Brown /
Amazing
Festivals
Little Bit
People Things Us
Bit
Distinct
Ours
Pull
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When I get drafty cold air in my ears, I would get an earache and get sick. I had to make sure I hustled and stayed well for my shows that I played.
Zac Brown /
Ears
Sick
Hustled
Stayed
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I just hope everybody stays with us. We are not trying to be snobs or jerks. We are in a whirlwind trying to figure out the best way to be accessible.
Zac Brown /
Best Way
Whirlwind
Jerks
Stays
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Clay Cook is a first class musician. Tender tormented genius here in 'North Star'. I will kill him if he leaves my band and he knows it. Great record.
Zac Brown /
Class
Clay
Stars
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Country fans and country listeners deserve to have something better... a song that really has something to say, something that makes you feel something.
Zac Brown /
Deserve
Listeners
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We just couldn't seem to get the love from the Nashville awards shows... So Grammys really gave us validation, and so that's why they're such a big deal for us.
Zac Brown /
Awards
Big Deal
Nashville
Validation
Grammys
Such A Big Deal
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Maybe some people that only listen to electronic music will pick up my record and get turned on to some of the story songs, some of the more country-type stuff.
Zac Brown /
Electronic Music
Music People Will
Electronic
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If we had to pose for every single person at the Eat & Greets, we wouldn't get to speak to anyone that's there, and we definitely wouldn't get to serve them food.
Zac Brown /
Single Person
Pose
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We're fabricating a state-of-the-art concessions system for our touring, so we can feed the people and give them everything they need without having to wait on it.
Zac Brown /
Feed
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It does make me sad that there's a lot of great songs out there, and they're not going to see the light of day because they're competing with these tailgate songs.
Zac Brown /
Competing
Great Songs
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Thanks so much to all the fans. To all our team, to all our wives, especially, that believe in us and that we come home to, and everybody here that's given us a shot.
Zac Brown /
Thanks
Wives
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You have a feeling when you're recording, like, 'This is gonna translate really well,' and when you see it live, and it kind of proves that, that's an amazing feeling.
Zac Brown /
Amazing Feeling
Proves
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I'm gonna tell y'all what we tell the crowd every night when we play back in the States. We tell them to remember people sleeping in a sandstorm so that we can be free.
Zac Brown /
Every Night
Sleeping
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I don't want my children to have any kind of ego or entitlement because of what I do. I want them to be good people, and we fight every day so that they'll be that way.
Zac Brown /
Entitlement
Good People
Good Fight Day
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Some people are gonna hate anything; they're gonna hate when anybody tries to go or do anything, and that's usually the people who don't ever create anything themselves.
Zac Brown /
Tries
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I remember the first time I heard 'The Thunder Rolls.' It was dark, and we were driving to the beach. There was the thunder outside and the thunder in the song. It was eerie.
Zac Brown /
Beach
Eerie
Thunder
Time Remember Song
Rolls
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If I'm chartering in and out and flying home after I play, that doesn't make sense. But where we can bus, then we'll bring the family out and spend time with them during the day.
Zac Brown /
Bus
Flying
Time Family Home
Family Time Home
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When I was growing up, my dad and I would go hunting and camping every weekend. Like everyone in my family, he is an amazing cook, and I've tried to learn a lot from all of them.
Zac Brown /
Camping
Hunting
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The Southern Ground warehouse is rocking and rolling in Atlanta, with a T-shirt shop and a leather shop; everything we're selling at our shows we're making or publishing ourselves.
Zac Brown /
Atlanta
Leather
Publishing
Selling
Southern
Warehouse
Shop
Rocking
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I always thought it was sad that you couldn't get anything really good to eat at concerts, so we sit down with our fans before every show and eat a gourmet meal that we made for them.
Zac Brown /
Concerts
Gourmet
Sad Good Always
Meal
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I love coming to Detroit. First getting to be buddies with Kid Rock in the beginning, and him being really great to us, showing us love, the love of the city. I feel like it's our city now, too.
Zac Brown /
Detroit
Love Great City
Beginning
Buddies
In The Beginning
Rock
Showing
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Our boundaries have dissolved, and we're going to still do things that are somewhat familiar that people like, but we're also going to stretch out and take chances beyond what we've done before.
Zac Brown /
Boundaries
Familiar
Chances
Done People Things
Somewhat
Dissolved
People Done Things
Stretch
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We're not just going to take some songs from a focus group in Nashville where people are sitting around in a circle having appointments trying to write catchy songs so they can sell them to a band like us.
Zac Brown /
Appointments
Catchy
Nashville
Circle
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Everybody in my band is a lion, and everyone's mastered their own domain... And we have a platform, and we have built it painstakingly and punched ourselves in the face every way we could to get where we are.
Zac Brown /
Band
Domain
Face
Everyone
Own
Could
Lion
Mastered
Platform
Punched
Where
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I have seen a lot of people, including myself, make a lot of tip money because of 'Black Water,' so this is a full circle moment. To collaborate and recreate this iconic song is just an amazing moment as an artist.
Zac Brown /
Iconic
Including
Water
Circle
Recreate
Tip
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If you break down most rock songs and look at the lyrics on a piece of paper, it's all about melody. It's all about presentation. And a lot of bands are really great, but you can't understand a word of what they say.
Zac Brown /
Melody
Presentation
They Say
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To be a Southern Ground artist, you have to be a lifer. It's not about winning a karaoke contest or a television show to become famous. It's about really paying your dues. It's people I'm fans of and want to help in the business.
Zac Brown /
Dues
Southern
Contest
Paying
Television Show
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I was probably 21 or 22 years old when I realized the prose that I live by, which is, 'You get what you give.' The more good deeds that you could do in your life, the more fulfilling and enriched your life is going to be. I truly believe that.
Zac Brown /
Deeds
Fulfilling
Good Deeds
Prose
Years
Life Good Believe
Could
Old
Enriched
Give
Realized
Truly
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Where there is a will there is a way. Have faith in oneself and productivity will follow. nothing can stop you once you realize what it is you are trying to do. there will always be a way, given the right amount of time one can do anything. Never hesitate to do what it takes.
Zac Brown /
Have Faith
Trying
Way
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It doesn't seem expected for us to do something like that, but I love electronic music. I spend a lot of my time listening to that and just trying to understand what makes it work - what makes it move people the way it does and why they have some of the best-selling festivals in the world.
Zac Brown /
Electronic Music
Expected
Festivals
My Time
Love Time Work
Electronic
Love Work Time
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We've gone further on this album, where we have a Big Band song, kind of a Sinatra-type song; we have a couple songs that have electronic music on them. We've got a couple rock songs, maybe a little heavier than what we've done. So the title 'Jekyll & Hyde' really covers the breadth of the record.
Zac Brown /
Breadth
Electronic Music
Hyde
Big Band
Covers
Electronic
Further
Heavier
Title
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We ended up New Year's Eve playin' a show. My date had stood me up, and I remember walkin' back to my friends with, like, two minutes before midnight and thinkin', 'I'm not gonna have anybody to kiss on New Year's.' And there she was, standin' right there, and I remember kissin' her, and then that was game over.
Zac Brown /
Midnight
Minutes
Date
Game Me Remember
Ended
Eve
Stood
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It's always humbling, knowing where we came from. From being friends with the janitor in the bar and being friends with the waitress - because they were some of the only people that were listening when we finished playing - to this, we are able to appreciate every single person and every single piece of it, because we came from nothing to this.
Zac Brown /
Appreciate
Finished
Humbling
Janitor
Single Person
Waitress
Always People Nothing
Bar
Piece
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