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By AnonymJason Aldean
After my first No. 1 song back in 2006, I worried I may never have another one.
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By AnonymJason Aldean
Alabama - they were the masters of that. They could come out with 'Mountain Music' or 'Tennessee River' and then turn around and come out with 'Feels So Right.' Go out and have fun and be those guys that like to party, then turn around and make every woman in America want Randy Owen.
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By AnonymJason Aldean
As a new artist, you come out, and there are so many other new artists. It seems like there's a whole wave of new artists that come along every year. In '05, I was part of the crop. It was a lot harder trying to set myself apart from the rest of the pack.
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By AnonymJason Aldean
Capricorn was one of the homes of the Southern rock movement with the Allman Brothers and Charlie Daniels and the Marshall Tucker Band. I don't think you can come from that area and not be influenced by that stuff a little bit, no matter what generation you grew up in.
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By AnonymJason Aldean
Country music artists are staying true to their roots, keeping it country but throwing a little bit of rock flair in there which I think is a good thing.
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By AnonymJason Aldean
Country music in the mid-'90s was a big influence on my career, and I played all the songs that are referenced in '94' back in my club days. Joe Diffie was rocking a sick mullet, and he was hotter than ever... just putting out monster hit after monster hit. It totally takes me back to those days, and it makes me smile every time I hear it.
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By AnonymJason Aldean
For every album, I look at where I'm at in my career and think of a title that kind of represents that. And for me, 'Night Train' was kind of a metaphor for where things have gone, from being on one bus with 12 other guys, pulling a trailer my first few years on the road, to now. We're out here with six or seven buses and eight or nine semis.
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By AnonymJason Aldean
Gimme some of that you and me, Some of that way back when, A little bit of wild and free I wanna feel that again
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By AnonymJason Aldean
Hearing people clapping draws you in pretty quick. It's like bungee cord jumping - it's a rush; you just want to do it again.
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By AnonymJason Aldean
I didn't get into music to become famous and I didn't get into music to become rich either - I got into because I liked it.
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By AnonymJason Aldean
I didn't want my records to sound like anybody else, and when I've got my guys in the studio, I have a language with those guys because we work together every day. A lot of times, you bring in outside guys, studio players, whatever, and they're great musicians. It's just that they don't necessarily play the way I want it to be played.
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By AnonymJason Aldean
I don't know if Nashville will ever be ousted as the Music City. But I also think that here, over the last few years, Georgia has definitely kind of risen to the top as far as the crop of young artists coming out of this area that are kind of making waves, you know?
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By AnonymJason Aldean
I don't really think that audiences are that much different. I think that a fan is the same whether you are from here or from Japan - you come to a show because you like the music. I don't really see much of a difference anywhere.
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By AnonymJason Aldean
I don't think I really have any wisdom. Stay out of trouble. Good luck. Stay away from women because they will burn you, haha.
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By AnonymJason Aldean
If it takes you a year to cut a record, I don't know, you need to find something else to do. It really shouldn't take that long.
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By AnonymJason Aldean
If the right thing comes along and you get an opportunity to be a part of something you believe in, and you think it's cool and want to put your name on it, then you should.
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By AnonymJason Aldean
If you can go out with your live show and turn people on to that, where you have that fan base that's religious and they're going to come see you when you're in that town, once your radio success is gone and you're not a mainstream guy anymore you can still go out and play your shows.
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By AnonymJason Aldean
If you say, 'I'm going to cut this song because I know the teenagers are going to love it,' well, then you're going to alienate everybody else. When I cut my record, I'm just going to cut the things that I like, and whoever likes it, likes it. That's too much work to try to figure out the demographic. That's too much like a business.
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By AnonymJason Aldean
I got a hat deal with Resistol, where I have my own line of cowboy hats.
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By AnonymJason Aldean
I grew up in an age where I loved going and buying a physical record. Things that were digital and all that stuff, it wasn't around. So I loved going and buying an album and looking through the inserts and reading stuff and seeing pictures.
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By AnonymJason Aldean
I grew up listening to all kinds of music, everything from country to rock, pop, R&B and even rap, so for me, music is music and a great song is a great song.
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By AnonymJason Aldean
I grew up listening to everything. And rock and roll has always been a big, big part of it - as big a part of what I do as any other type of music.
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By AnonymJason Aldean
I had a friend, Melissa, who was 28 years old. She was my best friend's wife, and she was my wife's best friend. She died of breast cancer. When she passed away back in 2004 was the last time I cried.
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By AnonymJason Aldean
I had an opportunity to play baseball in college, but I just didn't want to go to school. I started focusing on my music and it was game over!
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By AnonymJason Aldean
I had no idea 'Big Green Tractor' was going to be as big a hit as it was. You just can't predict those things.
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By AnonymJason Aldean
I have a love of baseball and a love of music.
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By AnonymJason Aldean
I haven't figured out why people like what they like. I don't know. I wish I did. I could sell that to everybody, man, and be a millionaire.
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By AnonymJason Aldean
I love fried okra. The fact that it's okra makes me feel like it's good for you - I forget the fact that it's fried.
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By AnonymJason Aldean
I love playing music. And that's what it's all about.
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By AnonymJason Aldean
I'm a country boy. I'm from Georgia.
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By AnonymJason Aldean
I only took about five guitar lessons in my life from an actual teacher. I learned fast that that wasn't for me. I didn't have the attention span to learn that way. So I learned the basics from my dad, then just from playing on stage, and watching other guitar players.
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By AnonymJason Aldean
It feels good when your hometown supports you, and Macon's always done that with us. Every time we come here, it's an event - which is nice.
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By AnonymJason Aldean
I think country music is obviously a great form of music. I think it's cool and has mass appeal.
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By AnonymJason Aldean
I think every artist wants to have that 'Grammy award winner' tag in front of their name.
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By AnonymJason Aldean
I think from an artist standpoint, you have to put out music that you feel like represents you and things you feel like your crowd wants to hear. And if that drives them to go and download the album or the single, that's what we want.
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By AnonymJason Aldean
I think it's important for artists to work together. It's great for fans to see, like, Ludacris came out to our show in Atlanta and kinda made a surprise appearance there, it shows a mutual respect for what each other does.
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By AnonymJason Aldean
I think it's important to do things that you're interested in. I think it's important to have other outlets away from the music industry.
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By AnonymJason Aldean
I think my music is definitely country but it's got a little bit of that rock flair about it. I always try to find the things that everyday people deal with in their everyday lives and situations in the songs that I sing.
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By AnonymJason Aldean
I think when you wear the brand anyway, why not go out and try to promote it and make it as cool as you can? The fact that I can continue to do what I've always done and kind of become the face of that brand is to me, kind of just makes sense. It doesn't make sense not to do it I guess.
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By AnonymJason Aldean
I try to record music that people can relate to.
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By AnonymJason Aldean
It's the only time that I'm ever nervous on stage, is when we're doing live TV. Especially an awards show, because I know you can't fix it.
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By AnonymJason Aldean
I've been wearing Wrangler jeans for more than a decade now, all the way back to when I first started playing clubs in my teens in Georgia.
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By AnonymJason Aldean
I would say, 'Go ask any couple that's been married for 30, 40, 50 years... It hasn't always been roses.'
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By AnonymJason Aldean
Macon has such a rich musical history - and the state of Georgia, as well.
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By AnonymJason Aldean
My dad encouraged anything I wanted to do, especially music. Actually he drove me around to places where I could play.
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By AnonymJason Aldean
My dad started teaching me how to play guitar when I was 13 years old. When he'd go to work, he'd map out guitar cords on a piece of notebook paper. I'd sit down and look at it every day and practice while he was gone.
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By AnonymJason Aldean
My goal is that when the last song is over, and you're walking back to the parking lot, you're already on your phone searching to find the next show.
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By AnonymJason Aldean
My golf score is really bad. I don't know. I'm definitely not a good golfer. Off the tee box, I can drive it about 275, and I'm in the fairway about 99% of the time. It's my next shot that needs work.
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By AnonymJason Aldean
My mom was a single mom, and she had enough on her plate. I knew when I was doing something I wasn't supposed to, and I tried to keep her from finding out about it. I did a pretty good job of that.
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By AnonymJason Aldean
Now one thing I think is really lame, is if you're an artist and you go to a karaoke bar and sing your own song. I like to get up there and sing stuff that I would never sing on stage anywhere else. Like Neil Diamond.
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