Words matter. These are the best Kristian Bush Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
You do things for your kids you won’t do for yourself.
I’ve always tried to put a little message in my music.
There’s a social piece to what’s going on in the Sugarland world, but we’ve never been a band that’s political, and I maintain that.
I try to spend a lot of time thinking of what it is I want to say, and how I want to say it. Mainly because I know what it’s like as a fan to hear music that is just exactly what I needed.
With Sugarland, it never felt like we were finished telling our story.
It’s a very sad thing to do, to divorce.
I’m not necessarily in a vocation where I’m at risk; it’s not like I’m a police officer. I’m a musician, so when I leave home, my family expects me to come back.
I get intimidated by famous people. When I’m around them and they look at me like I belong, I’m like, ‘Are you nuts? You’re freakin’ famous!’ Whether it’s Elmo or a Beatle or Vince Gill, it’s humbling to be in a room with these folks.
As a promoter, of course, you’d really want the people who pay for the tickets to come into your venue to really be even more connected with the band.
My voice has a lot of character and kind of doesn’t sound like a lot of people’s.
Each kind of generation of bands forgets how they got here. Waylon Jennings came out and they’re like, ‘That’s not Patsy Cline.’ And everyone panicked, like, ‘I don’t know what happened to country music, but this isn’t it.’
I don’t remember consciously not being able to play an instrument. It’s been kind of like a language for me.
The most inspiring thing as an artist is when someone says, ‘I believe in you’; sometimes that works even better than Grammys.
Billy Pilgrim music is very emotional. It’s one part the craft we learned from people like the Indigo Girls and R.E.M., and one part the Tom Waits craft, where you’re trying to create a moment.
There is a misconception that I’ve experienced in my life about people that live in the South. I got sent away to school in Connecticut in the late Eighties, and kids were honestly asking me, ‘Do people there wear shoes?’
I believe that melody is such a lost part of music and country music. People are either scared of it or not using all the colors that are available.
I’ve tried to start my kids on ‘Doctor Who,’ but they’re just not there yet. Someone had given me these TARDIS stick-em notes, so I gave them to Tucker, and he finally put them all over his locker. I’m like, ‘You’re the coolest fifth grader, ever!’
As soon as I saw tattoos as a way to tell your story, I thought, ‘Oh my gosh, I totally get it.’ So I got my first tattoo a couple of years ago, and it’s the word ‘hope’ on my left arm. It has a couple of dots at the end for each of my kids.
It’s a great place to be as an artist: if you confuse your label, you’re doing your job.
You will do things in private and sing in private and make choices in private that you wouldn’t make if you were observed.
My kids don’t listen to me when I preach at them. But if I tell them a story they can pull something from, that matters.
Music is supposed to make you less lonely – that’s the whole idea.
It’s hard not to go back and look at my songwriting catalog and go, ‘Look, there are 600 to 700 songs here.’
There’s an identity thing that goes on where you spend so much time caring for your child that, after a year or so, you have to shake it off and go, ‘Who am I?’
Sugarland was a band we started to try to make things better. It was in the aftermath of 9-11; it was in the aftermath of my mother dying… there was a lot of weird stuff that had gone on that made you want to start something good.
I come from a food family, so you would think that I would be great at making baked beans or something, but I’m not.
When I got my record deal at Atlantic, at the time, ‘indie’ wasn’t a style of music: it was a kind of label. And I think, eventually, the bands that ended up on those labels began to be branded as ‘indie bands,’ and then it became a genre.
I believe the biggest challenge is just getting the courage to try something different or new. Try to forget the stereotype in your mind. Yoga is for everyone – children, athletes, moms, dads, accountants, truck drivers, even country stars.
I love writing music for film and TV, but putting it into a video game is twice as fun because it needs to be repeatable and joyous.
I spent 25 years clearly understanding that I’m not gonna meet Bono or the Edge. But then it happened at the Grammys when we were all backstage and I just about fell out of my shoes.
