Someday I’m gonna be famous. Do I have talent, well, no. These days you really don’t need it.
BRAD PAISLEYSomeday I’m gonna be famous. Do I have talent, well, no. These days you really don’t need it.
BRAD PAISLEYThis is real, this is your life in a song…this is country music.
BRAD PAISLEYThat there’s no more important decision in life than who you marry.
BRAD PAISLEYI get to cry to Barbara Walters, when things don’t go my way. I’ll get community service no matter which laws I break.
BRAD PAISLEYGuitar playing isn’t really for everybody.
BRAD PAISLEYI 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 Im always looking for that angle in my own work.
BRAD PAISLEYAnytime you do something from the heart, people just know it.
BRAD PAISLEYThere ain’t a woman in the world that wants to hear the word yes when she asks if you think that she looks chubby in that dress. And if she cooks all day you better eat it with a smile; it doesn’t matter if it tastes just like bad gravy on a Goodyear tire.
BRAD PAISLEYI love any and all situations where you celebrate creativity.
BRAD PAISLEYI have a to-do list and I have a farm I care for, and things I like to do for fun – going to movies and all that stuff. It’s a painfully normal life!
BRAD PAISLEYWell one thing’s for sure.. all you really need is love.
BRAD PAISLEYIf there’s a song where there’s a possibility of guitar stuff that would be fun to listen to, go for it. Don’t worry about what anybody thinks.
BRAD PAISLEYCan’t wait to date a supermodel, can’t wait to sue my Dad. Can’t wait to wreck a Ferrari, on the way to rehab.
BRAD PAISLEYIt comes down to building your own world out here on the road. It’s who you surround yourself with. My band and crew are really positive guys.
BRAD PAISLEYThe nice thing about the world that I’ve been able to inhabit for the last couple of years is that I’m given a lot of freedom. Not all artists really get that.
BRAD PAISLEYWhen they say you’re the best, I always remember that the majority of the audience probably thinks someone else should have gotten the award.
BRAD PAISLEY