American - Musician | October 28, 1972 -
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
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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.
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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.
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I've always known from the time I was eight years old what I wanted to do. I would have been fairly content to be someone's lead guitar player.
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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.
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I try to write like the writers I admire - I rip them off in form. It comes from George Strait and Merle Haggard records, and country music in general is really good at that, the twisted phrase... So I'm always looking for that angle in my own work.
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Date night is important, even if it's going to Schlotzsky's.
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When you're old-fashioned like I am, you know marriage is forever. Those vows are a promise.
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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.
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When you're a creative person, there are just times when you're not listening. You know, I could be looking right at you and thinking about something else.
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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.
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When I made 'Who Needs Pictures,' my first album, I had been west of the Mississippi River one time in my life, and that was in fourth grade. We traveled to California for vacation and stayed with some friends of my parents. It was culture shock, and it was different.
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