Top 33 Jason Aldean Quotes

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.

That’s kind of fuse for the show – those first 10-15 seconds you’re onstage. The curtain drops and you see the crowd for the first time and they see you for the first time. The response and the energy that’s going on right there – to me, that sets the tone for the rest of the night.

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.

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.

Our first No. 1 was ‘Why’ and we waited two years to have another one. It felt like forever, and now I feel like I’m celebrating one every few months, which I love.

In the music business, especially the country music business, every 10 years or so you’re going to have this changing of the guard, this wave of new artists that comes in.

I would say, ‘Go ask any couple that’s been married for 30, 40, 50 years… It hasn’t always been roses.’

Entertainer of the Year, to me, there’s never been any question that that’s one on my bucket list that I want. I’m not going to sit here and lie to you. If there’s one that I ever could get – I would trade all the rest of them in for that one.

I love playing music. And that’s what it’s all about.

‘She’s Country’ obviously changed a lot of things for us and pretty much, I think, doubled our crowd size in just a few months time.

Macon has such a rich musical history – and the state of Georgia, as well.

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.

The worst gig story I have is from a club in Alabama that I think is still up and running, so I won’t name the name of the club. We got hired in there to play, and the owner was pretty annoying. He kept coming up to me during the show and asking me to play ‘Purple Rain.’

It’s one of those things where if I do a movie, I don’t even know if I’m any good. So, I may do one and it sucks and I’m a horrible actor, and I’ll never do another one.

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.

I’m a country boy. I’m from Georgia.

My producer, Michael Knox, he’s kind of my eyes and ears on Music Row. While I’m out on the road, he’s looking for songs, and then he and I will get together and go over songs.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Records are one thing, and obviously, without hit songs, you don’t have the opportunity to do your shows. But my live show has always been my selling tool.

There’s nothing cooler than a good fitting, worn-in pair of Wrangler jeans, so it’s great that with the new Retro line, my fans can go out and rock the same styles that I love.

People see you onstage and the glamorous side, but they don’t see you traveling 600 miles a night, eating truck stop food and spending by yourself staring at walls.

I know I’m not gonna please everybody when I make a record. I don’t let that affect any of my decisions.

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.

Playing a stadium is a big adrenaline boost for me and I dig it. It keeps me on my toes and makes me revamp everything I’m doing and not get stagnant with how I approach every show, which is something I like.

The ‘Night Train’ has already been a crazy ride for me. We flew around making TV appearances and stadium announcements all over the country, fueled by little more than coffee and adrenaline… so many fans jumped on board with us, and I couldn’t be more thankful.

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.

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.

It’ll be my luck that the worst candidate will pick up ‘Fly Over States’ as his election song. Then I’ll be forever linked to that guy, whoever he is!

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.