American - Musician | March 23, 1981 -
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.
Brett Young
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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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It is such a surreal feeling to have my first single go No. 1!
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I've never seen my dad come home from work and not walk straight to my mom and ask her about her day.
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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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It's funny how God will change your plans for you when he's ready.
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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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I've never been that comfortable with the acting thing. It's difficult for me to separate what's really going on. If there's kissing, that's kissing. I'm not acting; I don't know how.
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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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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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There's room for everybody to have success, but the moment I start slacking is the moment people will forget about me.
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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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