Top 78 Hunter Hayes Quotes
#1. All I knew when I moved to Nashville was that I wanted to make music in whatever shape and form I could.
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#2. Don't be afraid to do something different
Dare to be something more.
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#3. I'm a nerd. Total geek. I never went to homecoming or prom or anything.
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#4. In any city or town, you can find a good, rocking Italian place. The most unhealthy thing on the menu? I'll have two of those!
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#5. I like driving around town and listening to new records.
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#6. Yes, I did lock myself in my room for about two years and write some songs and things like that. But I don't feel like I missed out on a whole lot.
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#8. I grew up in a fun-loving environment - you work hard and play hard.
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#9. A good album can make your day. A great album can change your life.
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#10. The stage is my comfort zone, and playing live is what I've always wanted to do. It's why I want to do two hundred dates a year. I wouldn't feel that way if I were nervous onstage.
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#11. There is a bit of a movement as far as younger people in country music. That is cool because people are saying things like, 'I didn't listen to country music until so-and-so came along.' And I'm like, 'Yeah! Now you know why I love it.'
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#12. Anytime I can go fly for a few hours, I go. It's stressful and stress-relieving at the same time.
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#13. I don't believe in making a record and rushing it.
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#15. At 22, there's a lot of trying to figure out love, which at the end of the day, I've realized I'll never figure out, though the process of trying is fun.
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#16. Albums are chapters. They're part of a story.
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#17. The rule of songwriting: say what you want to say, say it again, say it a different way, then say it again.
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#18. All the people I hung out with were musicians.
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#19. Crowded hallways, are the loneliest places, for outcasts and rebels,or anyone who just dares to be different.
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#20. I am, by nature, a guitar player ... I learned all of these other instruments around that, and around the theory that I built learning the guitar.
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#21. If I could make noise with anything, I was going to.
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#22. There's something fun about the road because there's no 9 to 5. But I do find myself making the effort to take some time off. As much as I don't want to, I have to. I need to reset. I love weeks off, because I can go in the studio and just be creative again.
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#23. Dream as big as you want because they come true everyday
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#24. My celebrity crush is not gonna find out who my celebrity crush is anytime soon. I'm so nervous! I may keep that to myself because if I do meet her and she already knows about it, that could be awkward.
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#25. There's so much to life than what you are feeling right now.
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#26. I wanna make you feel wanted
And I wanna call you mine
Wanna hold your hand forever
Never let you forget it
Yeah, I wanna make you feel wanted
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#27. I don't have a girlfriend. I don't know if I have a type, but I really like girls who are driven. I really care about music, so I like it when a girl really cares about something too. Whatever it is they are into, I'll be their biggest fan.
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#28. I could be myself. I'm very shy and awkward. I think the best thing is to embrace it.
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#29. I don't even have a type, I don't think. My type is just whoever can get along with me.
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#30. When I was 13 or 14, I took seven months off from touring. I did a lot of weekend gigs in Louisiana. We have fairs and festivals every weekend. But I took seven months off. That's when I really started digging deep. I wrote a couple songs that year that I still play every now and then for people.
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#31. Music is by no means something I was like, 'I'm going to make a career out of this!' It's the only thing I know how to do, so it was more like, 'I hope to God I can make a career out of this!'
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#32. I am grateful I got the chance to meet Stevie Wonder! He's like royalty to me and is one of my biggest inspirations.
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#33. Unfortunately, I'm more experienced than I care to admit on long-distance relationships. Just because that is my life. I travel because I love to. As a result, I have to sort of make it work when a relationship kind of comes into view.
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#34. I love driving. I've been obsessed with driving something since I was a kid.
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#35. Cause my heart said a long time ago,
Buddy tuck your tail and run.
Cause it ain't love,
When you're stuck on the wrong end of the gun
Well, you put your finger on that trigger
And you shot me where I stood.
I found out the hard way.
I loved you more than I should.
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#36. There's so much more to life than what you're feeling now
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#37. I'm not a photographer, so I need all the help I can get when it comes to make a picture look cool.
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#38. Growing up in Louisiana, my grandmother gave me an accordion because of our Cajun heritage. What ended up happening was I started learning about more instruments, so I just kind of went that route. Music's really all I've ever done.
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#39. My favorite song depends on the day, what I'm going through, what I'm feeling.
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#40. All my band members were old enough to be my dad. It was like this family vibe.
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#41. 'Encore' was an experiment. 'Encore' was the second chance at a first impression. 'Encore' was not completely planned.
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#42. As a new artist - I don't care who you talk to - I think everyone would agree, it's hard to get your expectations right.
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#43. I used to think there was a scientific way to do things. Like a proper way to answer a question or that kind of stuff. It's like, there's not! There's not a method, there's not a science to it.
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#44. There's a lot of people I'd like to write with, like Keith Urban or even as far out as Stevie Wonder.
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#45. I struggled with feeling confident for a long time, but I think it's important to be strong and not compromise for anyone or a relationship - I'm drawn to that.
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#46. Robert Duvall saw me playing at a restaurant in Louisiana and invited me to be an extra in his movie 'The Apostle.' He gave me a guitar for my sixth birthday, and I thought that was the coolest thing in the world.
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#47. I just love music gear, I'm a total geek all around.
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#48. I wrote my first song when I was 6 years old. It was actually called 'Six Years Old.'
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#49. I was born with this love for music, and I say 'born with' because I don't really remember a day waking up and deciding that I'm going do to music. It's been all I've ever done and all I've ever wanted to do.
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#50. I want to find someone who's really into something like I'm really into something, so that I can support them and we can both cheer each other on. I've got a lot of dreams I want to achieve, and I hope someone can cheer me on as I'll cheer them on in their dreams.
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#51. A bass player has to think and play like a bass player. A drummer has to play and think like a drummer, and stay out of the way of the vocalist. The guitar player has to respect everybody else.
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#52. I didn't treat my girl like she was mine
Yeah, I thought I didn't need her at the time
But I changed my way of thinkin' when she left
Yeah, I finally learned my lesson, but I learned it by myself
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#54. When you hear his music, mine will all of a sudden make sense.
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#55. Country music busts the wall between performer and audience. There's a connection because there's a vulnerability, a confessional quality, to so much of the songwriting. Those lyrics take you in.
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#56. I have a string of competitiveness in me. It's really strange 'cause it's not something that I would even expect myself to have, but every now and then it kinda sneaks out, you know.
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#57. My mom makes the best Cajun stuff. I'm a big gumbo guy. I've lost a lot of my Louisiana accent, so now when I say 'gumbo,' I feel like someone who's never said the word before.
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#58. Singing live is my favorite. When people sing along to your songs, the circle is complete.
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#59. I love the practicality of a good car. You know what I mean? And when I say 'practicality,' I mean the complete practicality of a Ferrari 458, a wonderfully fantastic every day car.
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#60. Like a wave on the ocean I will always come right back to you.
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#61. I wrote my first song at 6. I spent every day with the guitar, and I just made up songs.
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#62. I believe when you meet the right person it clicks, and you both know and you start making it work, you know?
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#63. Thank you to country radio for believing in me.
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#64. To be the name on somebody's shirt that they've made themselves in preparation for one of your shows - it doesn't get much cooler than that.
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#65. Any time I write a new song, I am jazzed about it for like 24 hours and then I am over it and want to write another one.
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#66. I want people to say about me, 'I know he's making music because he loves it.'
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#67. I always loved LeAnn Rimes and especially Clint Black for his soulfulness. As I've gotten older, my influences have broadened - John Mayer, Michael Buble, Stevie Wonder, Keith Urban, Stevie Ray Vaughn, the Beatles - all of these artists have somehow been a part of my development as a songwriter.
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#68. Anyone who tells you they're not nervous playing on the CMAs stage, I'm afraid they're not telling you the whole story.
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#69. 'Wanted' is about a girl I was friends with, but at the time it was teetering on the edge of something more. I wanted to show her that I really cared about her. 'Wanted' was my way of saying, 'we're friends and have a great foundation, and this could be something really special.'
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#70. I write for myself. I don't write because I have a record coming out. I write because I want to. I need to.
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#71. I've got some crazy, stupid big goals. I really wanna headline arenas. I wanna have such a big crew that we've got to have 20 or 30 buses on the road because that's how big the show we're putting on is.
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#72. Meeting Stevie Wonder was a massive, lifetime achievement for me. He's one of the sweetest people. I sense a kindred spirit in him, and I hope he'd say the same. Actually, he did.
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#73. When I was in high school, I had binders with pictures of tour buses.
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#74. I truly believe that when you've found the one you're searching for, you become a better version of yourself. You're better for it.
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#75. I am a huge, huge Ronnie Milsap fan. I have been for a long time.
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#76. My first instrument was an accordion. Growing up in Louisiana, my grandmother gave me an accordion because of our Cajun heritage.
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#77. My dad said 'When you love what you do, you never work a day in your life,' and I agree with that.
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#78. I'm very shy and awkward. I think the best thing is to embrace it. It's about accepting who you are and what you want to become and knowing all that you've got to work with, whether it's good or bad. My music was the only place I could be me for the longest time.
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