Top 55 Dierks Bentley Quotes

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I still feel like that 17-year-old-kid that fell in lov

I still feel like that 17-year-old-kid that fell in love with country music, but I also am allowed to write songs about being a man, too, which I think is the coolest place I’ve ever been in my life.
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When I got to Nashville, people started asking me about how I got into country music. I’d tell them I came from a place where people wore cowboy hats for a real reason.
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I like big shows, a lot of volume and a lot of energy. I love electric instruments. But I do love mixing those with bluegrass instruments and cranking those up, too, with a little bit of that rock energy.
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I have so much respect for the genre of country music and for all the greats that have been a part of it. I’m a country singer, I’m a country fan, and I’m a student of country music.
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I’ve had fans and friends in the business say, ‘Oh man, you’ve made it.’ I still don’t feel like I’ve made it. I still feel like I’m as good as my last show, as good as my last single.
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As soon as I got into country music, it was like hook, line and sinker. I was so focused on country, I ended up leaving all those ’80s hair-band CDs behind – which now I still wish I had, but I was done with it.
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I wrote that song ‘Black,’ and it was just this idea that I had been married for 10 years. Everyone talks about ‘happily ever after,’ but there’s so much more to it than that.
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I try to make an album that reflects what I love about country music. It’s not just all about happy parties all the time. There are some sad songs.
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I’m a member of the George Jones fan club, and I’m a member of U2’s fan club.
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I discovered early on that I was more of a strummer than a picker.
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That’s how I feel, oddly, when I walk on stage in front of 20,000 people, and it’s crazy, the madness: I feel the most relaxed and free, and all of my worries and troubles just are gone. Just I feel the most present in that moment.
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And I’m the biggest country fan there is, but I’m always a little cautious of a slower song or just a song with subject matter.
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I was 17, and a friend said, ‘Man, you’ve got to listen to this song,’ and he played ‘Man to Man.’ From there on, I was hooked on country. Garth Brooks, Alan Jackson, Clint Black. Every show that came through America West Arena, I was there.
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I try to make my box as big as it can be because I never want to do the same thing twice.
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I really love flying, but it’s really nice to jump on a plane, sit back, and let someone else do the heavy lifting, but flying is my main passion for sure.
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I ask myself all the time, ‘Why keep doing this?’ If I wasn’t exploring or finding something to write about that was personal or meant something, there’d be no reason. If I was ever making a record just to make a record, or ever just like, ‘Just put something out there that someone will buy,’ I would quit.
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If I’m not on stage, I’m a pilot. I like flying planes; I have a little plane back in Nashville.
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Meeting my wife changed everything; it really, in the long run, made me a much better artist, a much better songwriter, a much better maker of albums.
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When you go to the Opry for a show or hear it on the radio, you get the whole circle of country music.
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I don’t think my music has changed to reflect getting married or having kids. But… if you want to continue to write your own songs, you’ve got to find deeper stuff to write about. You’ve got to go to different places.
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Some people associate red with love, but to me, red is for an earlier stage of a relationship. Black is much deeper, to me. It’s certainly the sexiest color.
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It’s not that you can do this calculated move to try to further your career. You just follow what’s in your heart, and later you look back and go, ‘I was either really dumb or really smart, I can’t believe I did that.’
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I met Michael Jordan on a golf course! I don’t even know what to say. I’m still freaked out that I met him.
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I get nervous playing the Opry still. You take that nervous energy and channel it into being amped.
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Music is my first love, and I can’t step away from her. I love music, and I love playing and living the dream, but I also miss my family.
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Whether lyrically or musically, it reaches in there and grabs your soul. That’s the stuff I gravitate toward.
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I don’t tour to make money: I do it because I love it. When I’m putting a tour together, I’m not sitting with number-crunchers, having them tell me I can’t do this or that.
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My dad and grandpa were in the army and as a country singer you’re constantly playing at military bases all across the country and meeting soldiers and their families and hearing their stories.
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That’s what we get to do as songwriters, right? You get to explore stuff.
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Most of my read on America is through looking through the front windshield of a bus and hanging out with country music fans backstage.
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Hey, if someone is crushing on me, and it brings them out to the show, so be it!
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In my 30s, I became more open to music other than count

In my 30s, I became more open to music other than country or bluegrass.
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If someone wants a picture, I’m so honored and so flattered, and I hope I have a reputation as someone who goes out of his way to do those kinds of things.
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A Sunday morning spent reading the paper together, maybe drinking some mimosas, alone, and talking until noon. That would be pretty amazing. Married couples with kids will understand.
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I remember somewhere in his 70s, my dad started wearing a nightgown – like an old-school grandpa gown! I can see how that might be somewhere in my future.
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I love singing fun songs; I’ve built a career on them.
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I also was a huge ‘Dukes of Hazzard’ fan. I used to have T-shirts that said ‘Dierks of Hazzard’ custom-made.
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People are gravitating towards Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders because they are doing their own thing. I think people are trying to cut out the middle man and just get to the source and get away from Washington politics.
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I think I’ve claimed the right to be any version of me that I want to be.
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I think the great country songs mixed with some of that bluegrass instrumentation – and surrounding all that with a little bit of a rock vibe and energy – is the kind of music I make.
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When I’m done with all of this, I’m going to write a book on it: have a guide to having a life and being on the road. Especially having a family and being on the road.
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I was like, ‘Man, bluegrass – that’s like Roy Clark playing banjo on ‘Hee Haw.’ I’m a huge ‘Hee Haw’ fan. But I didn’t know about bluegrass. It seemed like old people’s music.
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Love always had my number. I could never patch a breakup together with whiskey and a one-night stand. I took them real hard.
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I put a lot of time into making sure my relationship with my family is well taken care of because I want to be as successful as a father as I am as an entertainer.
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I go from being in front of 2,000 people, shot-gunning beers on stage and acting like a complete idiot, to being in a Mommy and Me class, waving a little pink handkerchief around 12 hours later!
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No, as an artist, you have to be free to explore all the corners of your heart. There are no boundaries.
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Growing up in Arizona, I love fireworks, shooting off bottle rockets and M80s.
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Patty Griffin is iconic, and there’s no other word to really describe her. She is iconic for a lot of people – not only for me but for a lot of fans. Her voice is one of a kind, and she’s such an important figure in the American music scene.
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Only in country music can you compare an old pickup truck and an old guitar to your wife and turn it into a love song… Thank God for country music.
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I mean, the last thing I want to do is be involved in politics.
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If you got in my truck, you were listening to country music, and that’s the way it was for a long time. I’m a little more open to other sources of music now, a lot more. But for the formative years, I was just very into country.
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I wrote a song called ‘Here on Earth,’ and the hook is, ‘There’s no answers here on earth.’ Basically, searching for the ‘why’ when someone passes away, and I feel really fortunate that my dad lived as long as he did. But no matter what happens or how it happens, it’s certainly a stinker.
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I think about me and my dad taking a road trip from Phoenix to Nashville when I was 19. He’s no longer here with me, but I still drive that same 1994 Chevy truck. I never have bought a new car.
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I do see the world as being different for girls – especially now, having daughters.
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I can act… well, kind of. I’m comfortable in front of a camera.
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