Words matter. These are the best Ashley McBryde Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I’ve heard that the true love of country music is alive and well. That gives me so much hope and so much happiness.
Country music is – can be – a loving industry.
I’m just going to do what I do, and people will like it, or they won’t.
There’s a few people that I write with that we don’t stop until one of us cries.
Your fame and your success moves much more rapidly than your ability to fund it.
As I got a little older, I discovered Lori McKenna and Patty Griffin and found out how many other tools we have as songwriters, that there’s storytelling and there’s ear candy, and that there is a place where they meet, too, and both of those women are really good at doing that.
Not everybody is going to like your songs. But you probably wouldn’t hang out with those people anyway.
You should read a crowd like you read a magazine.
I’m little. I’m pale. I’m not strong. But bad things are scared of me. I think it’s because my dad was a preacher growing up, and I was raised in the Church of Christ.
I have a soul the devil wouldn’t buy.
If you can sing to a room of 60 people who don’t give a damn, then if, someday, you’re playing to people who really want to hear your music, that’s not hard.
You don’t change country music; it changes you.
There’s not a lot to do in a small town, but i grew up on a cattle farm… some people would say there’s nothing to do on a cattle farm, but I’d say there’s everything to do.
It’s humbling when people sing back to you!
Nothing lights a fire under you like somebody saying, ‘You’re not going to be able to do it.’
There’s always going to be people that say you’re a sellout – anyone who knew you back when or who wants to begrudge you for having success. That’s OK. Their opinion of me, and the box they want to put me in, is just simply none of my business.
I grew up playing bluegrass as a youngster, and I’m happy that I did.
In my musically formative years, I grew up listening to Suzy Bogguss, Trisha Yearwood, Terri Clark.
Singing ‘Family Tradition’ with Hank Jr. was a pee-your-pants moment. Hank comes over while I’m singing and puts his arm around me, and my knees nearly buckled. You can put off the fact that this is reality, but when he came over, there was just no denying. I just lost cabin pressure.
In bluegrass, there’s a lot of joke-telling and a lot of banter between bandmates. It’s like improv or watching the ‘Carol Burnett Show.’
I get recognized more for my tattoos than my face.
I do know where I’m from, and I’m proud to be an Arkansan and to represent country music.
The thing about bikers and truckers is they’re just regular folks, and that’s definitely my demographic.
I was lucky to grow up in the ’90s, when we had just as many strong female artists as male artists. That’s a world I would like to live in again.
It turns out, the bikers and the truckers and people in dive bars are the nicest people in the world.
A secret gets bigger and nastier the longer you don’t talk about it.
Eric Church knocks down doors everywhere he goes.
You know me: jeans, T-shirts, boots, all the time.
Being called a new artist doesn’t bother me at all.
I was a terrible student, but I never missed a music class. In fact, I don’t even think I attended most of my gen-ed classes, but I never missed a single music class.
When you see a chick that’s not the skinniest girl in the room, covered in tattoos, you go, ‘That girl wants to stick it to the man.’ But we don’t give a damn about the man. At all. We just want to make music.
I was lucky that my parents listened to really good music. My dad loved Kris Kristofferson.
It’s all been guerrilla warfare trying to get my name out there.
I have a big love for jazz music. The only thing I hated about singing with a jazz band was having to wear a gown to everything.
Love songs are all about how I’ll move a mountain for you and I’ll never hurt your feelings. I’ve never been given a mountain, and if you love me, you should hurt my feelings sometimes. If I walk outside looking ugly in that shirt, you don’t love me if you don’t hurt my feelings a little bit and tell me.
