Top 60 Sam Hunt Quotes

Prior to getting into music, I interacted with, on a daily basis, about 5-10 percent of the people that I’ve interacted with since then. I’ve been meeting people from different backgrounds and different cultures. That did allow for a lot of change. I’ve changed as a product of that, but it’s been positive.

I had some interesting costumes… the one that I remember right offhand is Zorro when I was a lot younger. I was a big time Zorro fan. My mom helped me make it, and I remember having a big issue with the fact that she wouldn’t let me carry around a real metal sword; it just had to be plastic.

I love what Drake does, but I don’t want to be called the Drake of country.

By no means do I want to try to leave country music. That’s absolutely where I want to stay.

I still get excited about it. I miss playing ball.

New experiences give you new perspectives on life.

Obviously, I love country music, so I wanna be able to live in the country music genre and then play to country music fans.

I’m not really a piano player, but I play enough to get away with it.

I’ve had a lot of folks tell me that my songs weren’t quite country because they didn’t really sound like anybody that had come along and done it before me. I felt a little out of place for a while.

My dad is a football guy, not a music guy. He didn’t totally understand when I decided to be a musician.

There’s this sort of model that exists in Nashville that we think we have to abide by: You put out a record, and in two years you have to put out another one and have three or four singles. There are all these rules that I’ve just sort of thrown out the window.

On my teams, as a guy who grew up hunting and fishing, I was in the minority in terms of music and lifestyle. I became good friends with people who listened to R&B and rap. But it wasn’t just an issue of being around it – I was naturally drawn to it right off the bat.

I wish I could make multiple records, stylistically. The way that I’m gonna remedy that is to make a diverse record with a lot of different styles on one record.

I love all kinds of music, and I would write really traditional country songs and songs that were just really out there, that didn’t sound country at all, and everything in between.

I realized after writing songs for years how important it is. Whether it provides a living for me or not, that creative outlet is something I need.

I drove right into the music with the same sort of attitude as I went into the football stuff with. Just found a routine and hard work, and it helped me progress a lot faster.

At heart, I’m a relationship guy, but my adventurous side makes it hard. I hope I’ll find a balance.

I never thought of myself as a performer or songwriter or singer.

I think of a song in terms of lyrics and stories, and that’s what keeps it country for me.

I definitely grew up as a small-town… I guess you could call it the ‘small-town football player,’ according to the stereotype. I wasn’t involved in music at all.

I wasn’t intentionally trying to be different, but that was an element of what I naturally do that happened to be unique enough to spark a curiosity for people.

When I was really young, my babysitters had horses, and I started riding them.

I can’t play guitar if I blow my arm out.

I didn’t really know you could make a living in songwriting. I was just very fortunate to have the opportunity to play a few songs for a guy there named Jimmy Ritchey. Through that meeting, I met another couple guys and ended up getting a publishing deal in Nashville.

I connect music to the emotions that come from relationships, so most of the songs that I write are inspired by those circumstances, emotions, feelings, all that kind of stuff.

I’ve always really liked the rhythm element of songs.

My golf game is lacking big time.

I’m going to put music out when I feel like it’s ready.

I was a product of the relationships with my family, the environment I grew up in; all those things I kind of put on the back burner when I got into music, and my life all changed dramatically.

A lot of the lessons that are taught in football will promote success in anything you get into after football; for me, it just happens to be music. Being disciplined. Good character. Trying to do the right thing, and working hard.

I had a couple CDs. But I never had that first concert experience, that first record thing.

It wasn’t in the cards to work out in football.

People throw things at me sometimes, at big festivals.

I don’t get irrational about it, but I do have a deeply-rooted competitive spirit. Not necessarily towards other people, but towards any obstacle that I set for myself.

I have a whole, whole lot of respect for the men and women that serve our country.

You think about the artists I look at as icons, and you assume they were instantly embraced. That’s usually not the case. In reality, they had to overcome a lot of noes to get where they wanted to be.

Any chance to get out and play live for some people and get out of the studio is nice.

I don’t like the idea that in music, clothes, taste or anything, we are limited to a certain style, because we need to maintain an identity, maybe between some subculture group. Hopefully, all those walls break down, and music is just music.

To all my people back in Nashville who have been there from the start, you put your faith in me. You were there for the long haul.

The first song I learned on the guitar was a Kenny Chesney song called ‘What I Need to Do’; it was just an easy song to play… and it was really cool to see that come full-circle a few years later and have him record a song that I was part of.

It’s liberating to wear clothes that are outside the boundaries of what I’m supposed to wear, ya know, based on the traditional model, whether that be a country music singer, or being from the country. It’s not a rebellious thing.

I experimented and explored ways to find my own niche in Nashville, and I was having trouble with it for a while because stylistically, I didn’t feel like I necessarily fit in.

It’s just really fulfilling to celebrate with a group of folks, a team, than it is personally.

People sniff out when you try to fake something or be something you are not.

Sometimes I’m not even aware of some of the issues going on with me in my life until I sit down and start kind of looking for inspiration, trying to find something that inspires that creativity.

I try to make music that’s relevant to my life and relatable to the culture I live in.

I learned from making a few of these low-budget videos early on that the best way to go about doing it is just to keep it honest and real.

In a small town, it’s either sports or a band with your buddies. I was always athletic. But in college, I was exposed to all this new music, and I was drawn to hip-hop and R&B.

My style, in terms of what I wear, is kind of representative of the music.

I realized that I could try to sound like Waylon Jennings, or I could try to be like Waylon Jennings… but it’s impossible to do both.

We try not to pull any punches and be straightforward, and I think that’s what helped us connect with everybody across the board.

Some people don’t like long bus rides, but I love them. There’s sort of a sense of solitude.

I’m not trying to become a pop artist, and I’m not trying to make sure I stay a country artist. I’m just trying to make sure I make the best music I can, according to my way.

I like disagreement because it forces both sides to question their own opinions and why they feel that way.

The things that are going to be in all my records, for as long as I’m making them, are going to go back to who I am and where I’m from and the lifestyle that I live and come from – and I don’t know how I could ever get any of that close enough to pop to be considered a pop act.

I love being outside, I do a lot of hunting.

I wanted to be a bull rider when I grew up.

I do feel pressure internally and externally to put out music, but that excites me because I love songwriting, and this brings me back to why I got in music in the first place, so I’m excited about that.

There’s not a day goes by that I don’t appreciate the freedom that I have to make music and tour and spend time with my family.

I could probably recite just about every song that was on country radio between 1990 and 2000.