Top 40 Coy Bowles Quotes

Just to be part of the history of the Hollywood Bowl – so many people have played there; at least, all of my heroes have.

My dad has seen and done a lot. He comes from the hippie era where music and living life to the fullest is more important than stability and playing by the rules.

I live a life of creating, sharing music with wonderful musicians that I love like family, and spreading a message through music that life is yours to live wide open, and do it your way with love.

If the people that love you are the people at your side on your last day, and there’s not a soul in that room that has any bad words to say about you, well, I’d say Heaven awaits you, my friend.

I taught guitar lessons for a long time for a living before I got on the road. I really enjoyed hanging out with kids, talking about music with them, and trying to influence them in a positive way.

Stylistically, we do so many different things.

We listen to so many different types of music, so it’s easy for us to play a different genre or style and it be true to what we do.

I love kids, and I think I would be a great dad. I had great parents, and my mother and father are my best friends, so I’d have good examples to lead from.

God Bless my mother and father for all the hard work they’ve done for our family.

I firmly believe if you start something, you should finish it.

I learned real fast that you need to have a plan of action when changing diapers, or it can get dicey fast.

Carlos Sosa, the saxophone player for Zac Brown Band, and I worked up two songs for ‘When You’re Feeling Sick.’ They were a blast to work on. The songs are real upbeat and silly.

You think you have the most amazing life by having your dreams come true as a musician and marrying the woman of your dreams. But then you add a lil’ baby girl… to the mix, and it’s like you’ve never really lived and loved until she was here.

I’m so grateful to have been raised on love and to be so in love with my wife.

I’m just grateful. I’m grateful for my family, my wife, and our health. I’m grateful to be in a band of brothers that I love so, so, so much. I’m grateful that this magical combination of dudes makes music that people like and moves them.

When I try to be funny, it always makes me more nervous that I’m trying too hard, and then my brain that already thinks too much jumps into hyper drive, and I light-speed start talking ‘Star Trek’ to someone who’s talking ‘Star Wars.’ Anyway, it doesn’t work out usually when I ‘try’ to be funny.

You’re part of the problem or the solution. Solution means, in my opinion, to be taking extra time and energy in trying to give back to the world.

If they keep playing us on country radio and we get to keep doing cool stuff like playing with Willie Nelson, that’s great.

Sometimes I have a little social anxiety, and meeting people can be a challenge for me.

I was raised on nothing but love and support.

I grew up as an only child, so inherently, most of my life was centered around me. My parents taught me to play well with others and to share my toys, but I was still an only child who didn’t have to share my parent’s attention with siblings. As great as my childhood was, I always wanted brothers and sisters.

The recipe to our success is that you have a bunch of different guys who listen to a lot of different music.

We pride ourselves on being great songwriters.

Duane Allman might be my favorite guitar player ever. I’d say I’m influenced by the Allman Brothers more than any other band. When I taught guitar lessons for a living, the students that were interested in soloing had to learn the intro to ‘It’s Not My Cross to Bear’ first thing.

I try as hard as I can to push myself. I try to create as much as I can. I try to grow on a daily basis.

My father is a very skilled carpenter. He can do just about anything with his hands. He is very artistic with his carpentry.

My dad is basically my best friend. I’m that dude’s spitting image and couldn’t be more proud of that. They just don’t come any better than my dad.

My goal for children’s books is to have them become tableside or bedside classics. To me, it would be awesome to write a book that every kid would end up reading at some point in their life because influencing kids in a positive way at such a young age is really cool.

We never think about how many awards we’ve won. We just want to make the best music we can.

We can be whatever we want to be. We can be a country band if we need to be. We can be a rock band if we need to be.

The ‘Will Powers’ story is like my life to a certain degree.

We’re able to play different genres and be very specific in sounding like we know what we’re doing.

I’m a blues guy at heart, so silly music isn’t generally what I do. I’m a I’ll-cry-as-my-guitar-gently-weeps kind of guy.

Life is short, so there is no reason why you shouldn’t live it to the fullest expression of yourself.

I got into writing short stories and blogs while on the road.

I made a promise to be as creative as I could, even outside of music.

I can’t think of anything more important than a kid being sick and making them laugh and making that whole experience a little easier.

You can be as creative as you want to and build all these cool projects, but ultimately, if they’re not successful and you don’t have the business structure in place, everything will flop.

I believe 99% of success is never giving up.

I like music that not only has a pop melody to it but is also deeply about something.