Words matter. These are the best Zac Brown Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I always thought it was sad that you couldn’t get anything really good to eat at concerts, so we sit down with our fans before every show and eat a gourmet meal that we made for them.
It’s an honor to live on a legacy, getting to do what we love to do and try to be the best musicians that we can possibly be.
You have a feeling when you’re recording, like, ‘This is gonna translate really well,’ and when you see it live, and it kind of proves that, that’s an amazing feeling.
We just couldn’t seem to get the love from the Nashville awards shows… So Grammys really gave us validation, and so that’s why they’re such a big deal for us.
To me, country music has always been the home for a great song.
I don’t think a lot of bands and artists work as hard as we do on the creation, on the writing, the arrangements and the recording in our format.
We just kept going down the road, we kept trying to make the next record, the right choices to get there.
When I was growing up, my dad and I would go hunting and camping every weekend. Like everyone in my family, he is an amazing cook, and I’ve tried to learn a lot from all of them.
If I’m chartering in and out and flying home after I play, that doesn’t make sense. But where we can bus, then we’ll bring the family out and spend time with them during the day.
We don’t want to abandon any of the market we have now. We just want to gain new market.
Everybody in my family cooks, so growing up and being around it… if I was going to spend time with everybody, it was helping them in the kitchen.
Getting to have a higher purpose other than just being successful is very necessary for me.
The Southern Ground warehouse is rocking and rolling in Atlanta, with a T-shirt shop and a leather shop; everything we’re selling at our shows we’re making or publishing ourselves.
If I hear one more tailgate in the moonlight, Daisy Dukes song, I wanna throw up.
Our boundaries have dissolved, and we’re going to still do things that are somewhat familiar that people like, but we’re also going to stretch out and take chances beyond what we’ve done before.
If we had to pose for every single person at the Eat & Greets, we wouldn’t get to speak to anyone that’s there, and we definitely wouldn’t get to serve them food.
We’re fabricating a state-of-the-art concessions system for our touring, so we can feed the people and give them everything they need without having to wait on it.
Not a lot of the country format I enjoy listening to.
I have an outdoor kitchen at home in Georgia, and I try to never eat inside.
I have seen a lot of people, including myself, make a lot of tip money because of ‘Black Water,’ so this is a full circle moment. To collaborate and recreate this iconic song is just an amazing moment as an artist.
In my opinion – in Georgia, there’s a town called Lula. And Lula, Georgia, has the best peaches.
Our music has been an incredible gift to help us make a difference.
People come up to me sometimes and ask for a picture but don’t even say hello. They sort of forget that I’m a person.
I just hope everybody stays with us. We are not trying to be snobs or jerks. We are in a whirlwind trying to figure out the best way to be accessible.
It does make me sad that there’s a lot of great songs out there, and they’re not going to see the light of day because they’re competing with these tailgate songs.
I was a music fan first way before I started creating it, so I still get giddy when I get to be around people that I respect so much.
We’re not just going to take some songs from a focus group in Nashville where people are sitting around in a circle having appointments trying to write catchy songs so they can sell them to a band like us.
My brother’s 21 years older than me, so I grew up doing more adult things. Like listening to old music.
When we cover a Chainsmokers song in our live show with ZBB, people are dancing and going crazy.
I remember the first time I heard ‘The Thunder Rolls.’ It was dark, and we were driving to the beach. There was the thunder outside and the thunder in the song. It was eerie.
If you break down most rock songs and look at the lyrics on a piece of paper, it’s all about melody. It’s all about presentation. And a lot of bands are really great, but you can’t understand a word of what they say.
The lyrics are so important to me. And that there is something going on in the lyrics. That the song actually has something to say.
Country fans and country listeners deserve to have something better… a song that really has something to say, something that makes you feel something.
I hope everybody enjoys our input on ‘Black Water’ – it sure was a lot of fun getting to record it.
We’re proud to be lifetime musicians and a band that lives like a band and loves the music and gives our lives to it.
When you’re wearing a motorcycle helmet, people don’t know who you are. So I just wander around and, yeah, it’s pretty awesome.
We’re really blessed that we’ve been as well received as we have been.
I try to be really conscious. I don’t want to ever look back and regret not raising my kids and not being around.
‘A Pirate Looks at 40,’ we had to do that song. I’ve been covering that forever.
I don’t like cooking just for myself; I enjoy feeding other people, particularly outdoors.
We ended up New Year’s Eve playin’ a show. My date had stood me up, and I remember walkin’ back to my friends with, like, two minutes before midnight and thinkin’, ‘I’m not gonna have anybody to kiss on New Year’s.’ And there she was, standin’ right there, and I remember kissin’ her, and then that was game over.
Family comes out whenever we know it’s gonna be steady on a run that’s continuous.
To be a Southern Ground artist, you have to be a lifer. It’s not about winning a karaoke contest or a television show to become famous. It’s about really paying your dues. It’s people I’m fans of and want to help in the business.
Some people are gonna hate anything; they’re gonna hate when anybody tries to go or do anything, and that’s usually the people who don’t ever create anything themselves.
Visually, a lot of the electronic artists have really interesting video and interesting things like that.
It’s important that people come see our show, because we are performers. We wanted people to see that.
It doesn’t seem expected for us to do something like that, but I love electronic music. I spend a lot of my time listening to that and just trying to understand what makes it work – what makes it move people the way it does and why they have some of the best-selling festivals in the world.
Other people pull off amazing festivals and events and things like that. I think ours is a little bit different, and that’s what makes us distinct.
I’m from Georgia, and everybody gathers around food in the South.
Good music makes you feel something.
When I get drafty cold air in my ears, I would get an earache and get sick. I had to make sure I hustled and stayed well for my shows that I played.
I try to get away and take my motorcycle on a ride whenever I can. I’ll take my bike out before the show and just cruise.
I never get used to going out and seeing 20, 30,000 people that are there to see us play. It’s kind of surreal.
I love coming to Detroit. First getting to be buddies with Kid Rock in the beginning, and him being really great to us, showing us love, the love of the city. I feel like it’s our city now, too.
When you are a singer, you have to nurse yourself and make sure you don’t get a cold.
Everybody in my band is a lion, and everyone’s mastered their own domain… And we have a platform, and we have built it painstakingly and punched ourselves in the face every way we could to get where we are.
I don’t want my children to have any kind of ego or entitlement because of what I do. I want them to be good people, and we fight every day so that they’ll be that way.
The world needs some help.
You can tell all our songs come from us and from our artists, the people we write with and travel with.
The Doobie Brothers are one of my favorites of all time.
