Top 35 Jon Pardi Quotes

I’ve been able to carve my way out with lyrics and melodies.

My California sunrise, there’s a real mist in the air. I think of the mountains. You can smell the farm fields. You can smell the dirt and the lights and the whole sun.

If you get music on a personal level, you are doing something right. It’s not just in one ear and out the other.

I chose to be this guy. It’s who I want to be, and it’s always been me – just keepin’ it country.

It’s been so great to have an album people believe in.

I’m trying to write songs to appeal to everybody.

‘Head Over Boots’ is a shuffle, but it’s more of a Motown laid-back shuffle than, say, a Dwight Yoakam shuffle.

It’s always a good feeling to be recognized for something.

I had a drummer I really wanted to move to Nashville with me, and he’s like, ‘Naw, I can’t go, man.’ He never could pull the trigger. It’s a big move. You just gotta be diehard – you gotta give it your all, you know.

I always want to just stay humble, and I always want to keep climbing.

I can play with Florida Georgia Line. We can throw down with people. I think that’s what sets me apart.

I love the story of the guy coming to Nashville and then kind of getting set down and told, ‘This is how the town works,’ which, I’ve totally been there. But the coolest thing about ‘Out of Style’ is it’s a song within a song.

‘Dirt on My Boots’ was pegged as the second single from ‘California Sunrise’ from the get-go, and we felt like it was just a fun song to go with.

What I can feel the most and what I can remember the most are the melodies I want to write to.

There’s so many great people in Country Radio, and I appreciate all the support they’ve given me.

I lean traditional, but ‘Head Over Boots,’ it’s pretty country.

I was even more country in my college-band days.

As a songwriter, you always want to search for something that’s right in front of you that you can twist into something new.

As a songwriter, we’re looking for a good story, and we’re always looking to push the limits.

Radio has had my back since ‘Missin’ You Crazy,’ which was a very traditional kind of song.

People out west love country music.

Take everything you can from what people say. Keep going and stick to your instincts. And what your soul tells you to do, use that.

California is one of the most country-est states there is. We’re really country.

For my shows, I don’t play too many slow songs.

You gotta do both. You’ve got to be on those big tours, and you’ve got to be in the clubs.

Having two back-to-back No. 1’s is unbelievable.

I have a great band of great guys. We’re a lot of fun.

I’m a guy who doesn’t know the name of the chord, but I know that it sounds good.

My grandmother loved country music, and she’s the one who really got me into country music. She had George Strait tapes, a bunch of them. I remember listening to tapes, taking them out, the covers and the back.

You gotta have a good beat to survive in modern country in general. Everyone wants to feel good, laugh, dance, and cry. But at the same time, they all want it to sound happy.

I started playing guitar by the time I was 9.

I love having those lyrics that at first make you think it’s about one thing, but it’s really about something so much more.

I’m mixing country with kind of a modern twist to it.

There’s so much you can learn from being on a big tour and so much you can learn from being in the clubs.

There’s a connection when people are dancing, laughing, and singing, and that definitely happens with ‘Head Over Boots.’