Top 22 Tracy Lawrence Quotes

Toward the end of the ’90s, it got pretty rough for me – a lot of emotional unrest and problems with my relationships. That affected my career.

Performing live is a part of who I am.

If you just focus on making singles, you lose the personality of the record. Because everything is not meant to go to radio.

Everyone wants to be an arena act, and it’s making country music evolve. People are cutting things more for that arena environment. But who’s to say that that is a sign of any more of a successful career than what James Taylor has been able to do, when he still comes and plays the Ryman every two years?

The group of guys I came up with in the 1990s were very innovative. I remember some of the older guys were complaining about how the music had changed, and they were being left behind. I didn’t want to be one of those guys who sat around and complained because they weren’t growing and evolving.

I remember a song I did called ‘If the Good Die Young’ – I wanted to have a lead guitar solo on there, and the label flipped out! It was too rock and roll. They made us go back and put fiddle on the solo.

I’ve never been one to stay in a complacent place where I just let the grass grow around me.

I always wanted to be in charge of my own career. I like having my own imprint.

I grew up in a very Christian household. We went to church every Sunday whether I wanted to or not.

I listen to everything from Lady Gaga to Lady Antebellum. I’ve got Frank Sinatra. I’ve got old stuff, new stuff. Iggy Azalea. I’ve got everything.

Fame and fortune and the interstate is great and fun, but it ain’t life.

I do feel like I’ve changed a great deal, but not anything outside of the norm of what most people experience as they grow and they take on the responsibilities of parenthood and being more engaged in their business and all that stuff. I think it’s a pretty natural evolution.

I grew up very heavily involved in a United Methodist Youth organization. I grew up going to church camp for years. I ministered, and country music stole me away. It was just where my heart wound up. It’s what I wanted to do.

I love to sing swing and shuffle stuff. Radio may not play it coast to coast, but I love playing them. Man, they fill the dance floor up. People who live the night life at these honky-tonks eat this stuff up.

I definitely do live my life at a different pace now than I used to… I feel like I’m guilty of all the overindulgences of a guy in his 20s and early 30s could’ve gone through, but I look back on it with great fondness. I don’t have a lot of regrets.

I don’t think there’s any substitute for experience.

I got an opportunity to be on a tribute to the Rolling Stones in the late ’90s and did a rockin’ version of ‘Paint It Black’ – that’s probably the biggest stretch of anything that I’ve personally done. I listen to a lot of different kinds of music, but I understand where my parameters are.

Having children has been one of the biggest things that has happened to me in my life.

I’ve found, as I’ve gotten older, it’s really difficult to write on the road. There are so many distractions, so many people in and out of the bus. It’s really difficult to do. So I just keep a notebook with me, and I jot down ideas. I schedule appointments to write.

I’ve never been an artist that really got into fluff songs. I like songs that have substance to them. I think sometimes that may hurt me commercially a little bit. But I like to cut things that have the power to speak to people on an emotional level. That’s the power of country music to me.

I’m like an old turtle these days. I don’t run wide-open everywhere, but at the end of the day, I’ll be where I’m supposed to be.

Things are always going to evolve and change. You might not always like the direction of it, but people’s tastes change.