Hunter Hayes Quotes
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I love flying planes.
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A good album can make your day. A great album can change your life.
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I hope people half my age and twice my age will listen to my music - I want it to live forever and for my audience to feel like they have a friend in my music. Music is a spirit. It heals. It's an amazing thing to be loved and appreciated, and sometimes, music has not just been my best friend, it's been my only friend.
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My favorite song depends on the day, what I’m going through, what I’m feeling.
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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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I'm from Louisiana, and that's where I got my start, in Cajun music. There's a huge music scene down there centered around our culture. Those are people that are not making music for a living. They are making music for the fun of it. And I think that's the best way I could have been introduced to music.
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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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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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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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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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I don't believe in making a record and rushing it.
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All the people I hung out with were musicians.
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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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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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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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I've always been shy, but I see that as a good thing because it kept me focused on music. When I was in seventh grade, I asked my parents for a mobile recording system for Christmas, and I got it. I didn't come out of my room for years after that. I'd get invited to the movies and I'd say, 'I'm gonna finish a couple of demos.'
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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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When I was in high school, I had binders with pictures of tour buses.
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I could be myself. I'm very shy and awkward. I think the best thing is to embrace it.
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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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Encore' was an experiment. 'Encore' was the second chance at a first impression. 'Encore' was not completely planned.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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When you hear his music, mine will all of a sudden make sense.
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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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Singing live is my favorite. When people sing along to your songs, the circle is complete.
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