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Walker Hayes Quotes
American
-
Musician
December 27, 1979
Family is first for me.
Walker Hayes
Family
Me
First
In my opinion, my business runs better when my family is a part of it, and I get to see my wife and kids; that makes me a better artist.
Walker Hayes
Family
Me
Business
Wife
In My Opinion
Runs
Artist
Better
Get
Kids
Makes
Opinion
Part
See
Taylor Swift - I don't ever hear anything of hers where I'm like, 'Oh, so-and-so could've cut that.'
Walker Hayes
Like
Anything
Where
Oh
Hers
Swift
Taylor
Taylor Swift
Cut
Ever
Hear
My music is just about that bounce and getting everybody moving.
Walker Hayes
Music
Getting
Moving
Just
Bounce
About
Everybody
Sometimes when you belt, it kinda makes the song more dramatic than it really needs to be. There are certain songs that you hear, and you're like, 'Wow, he's singing about his girlfriend, but he sounds kinda mad the way he's yelling, 'You're so pretty!''
Walker Hayes
You
Song
Singing
Way
Belt
Dramatic
Girlfriend
Kinda
Mad
Wow
Yelling
About
Certain
He
Hear
His
Like
Makes
More
Needs
Pretty
Really
Sometimes
Songs
Sounds
Than
I want to be something that the listeners might not know that they needed but that I fill a lane and that they enjoy it for a while.
Walker Hayes
Know
Want
Something
Enjoy
Fill
Lane
Listeners
Might
Needed
While
When I lost my first record deal, my wife and kids and I lost - I wouldn't say friends, but - we lost a lot people around us. They just vanished! They were nowhere to be found. I couldn't get a break, and I couldn't get people to even respond to my emails about songs, no matter how good something was.
Walker Hayes
Good
Wife
People
Matter
Emails
Nowhere
Record Deal
Respond
Vanished
About
Around
Break
Deal
Even
First
Found
Friends
Get
How
Just
Kids
Lost
Lot
Record
Say
Something
Songs
Us
Were
I'm a tough, tough person. I always have been tough to embarrass, too.
Walker Hayes
Always
Person
Tough
Been
Embarrass
Too
For me, a good show is not a perfect show; it's just one where you connected. It's a show where the fans got to know you, and they realize that you're human, but they also think you're a star and that you're talented and all that good stuff.
Walker Hayes
Good
Me
You
Think
Connected
Just One
Talented
Also
Fans
Got
Human
Just
Know
Perfect
Realize
Show
Star
Stuff
Where
Tragedy levels the playing field.
Walker Hayes
Tragedy
Field
Playing
Levels
Playing Field
I'm pretty chill, but once birth starts, I go the opposite of chill.
Walker Hayes
Chill
Go
Birth
Opposite
Starts
Once
Pretty
I want to be more selfless and look outward.
Walker Hayes
Look
More
Selfless
Want
Outward
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Back home, the Iron Bowl isn't just a football game, it's a phenomenon.
Walker Hayes
Home
Game
Football
Back
Bowl
Football Game
Iron
Phenomenon
Just
That's kind of something we - my team and I - text each other a lot. Anytime something great happens, we're like, 'Hey, look, the song's #17. Boom!'
Walker Hayes
Great
Song
Look
Like
Anytime
Boom
Hey
Text
Each
Happens
Kind
Lot
Other
Something
Team
What's great about being an opener is that even when you lose, you win. There's no pressure. And no expectations. If you sell merch, you're killing it. But when you headline, you have to sell those tickets.
Walker Hayes
You
Great
Lose
Win
Expectations
Headline
No Pressure
Opener
Tickets
About
Being
Even
Pressure
Sell
Those
Most of the time in Nashville, you're so replaceable. Anybody can get another nice-looking guy to sing a country song.
Walker Hayes
You
Time
Song
Country
Nashville
Another
Anybody
Get
Guy
Most
Sing
I always just wanted to write a love song to my wife that wasn't cliche.
Walker Hayes
Love
Wife
Song
Always
Cliche
Just
Wanted
Write
It's relaxing to be around somebody that you don't have to try so hard around.
Walker Hayes
You
Try
Hard
Somebody
Relaxing
Around
My parents once caught me conducting Beethoven's 'Fifth Symphony.'
Walker Hayes
Me
Parents
Once
Caught
Beethoven
Conducting
Fifth
Symphony
I get off on finding new ways to tell my wife 'I love you.'
Walker Hayes
Love
You
Wife
New
Love You
New Ways
I Love You
Finding
Get
I Love
Off
Tell
Ways
Growing up, all I cared about in a song, before I really listened to lyrics, was that beat.
Walker Hayes
Song
Growing Up
About
Beat
Cared
Listened
Lyrics
Before
Growing
Really
Up
I didn't want a pickup with mud tires. I wanted an old blazer with as many speakers in the back as I could afford. I would even steal them out of my brother's car and pack them in there. I remember sitting in a parking lot and turning my radio up and walking down the street to see how far you could feel it.
Walker Hayes
You find yourself writing the truth, because it's like, 'Well, I ain't writing for anyone but myself anyway.'
Walker Hayes
Myself
Truth
You
Yourself
Anyway
Anyone
Because
Find
Like
Well
Writing
When I'm in the studio, I'm very cautious about it because if there's one thing that can destroy music being made, it's any sort of agenda, expectation and/or schedule, or any of that.
Walker Hayes
Music
Being
Expectation
Destroy
Agenda
Cautious
Schedule
About
Any
Because
Made
One Thing
Sort
Studio
Thing
Very
Every time I've gone in to create music and felt free and felt like I was actually creating something, it's turned out something I'm really proud of, so I try to keep that as a tradition.
Walker Hayes
Music
Time
Free
Proud
Tradition
Actually
Create
Creating
Every
Every Time
Felt
Gone
Keep
Like
Out
Really
Something
Try
Turned
When my voice isn't doing what I want it to do, it's crushing in the most heavy way possible.
Walker Hayes
Way
Voice
Doing
Want
Crushing
Heavy
Most
Possible
I actually had publishers that would encourage me at times to keep it simpler, not pack in so much information, but I'm a fan of songs and movies and books that the second time you read them, you find more stuff that you missed, so I like to pay attention to that detail.
Walker Hayes
That's one of the reasons I got into country music: because of the craft of that lyric and how much you could put into three minutes.
Walker Hayes
Music
You
Country
Three
Country Music
Craft
Lyric
Because
Could
Got
How
How Much
Minutes
Much
Put
Reasons
I love clever lyrics.
Walker Hayes
Love
Clever
Lyrics
I Love
What keeps you in this business is the thought that maybe tomorrow will be different.
Walker Hayes
You
Business
Tomorrow
Will
Be Different
Different
Keeps
Maybe
Thought
It's cliche, but everybody says, 'We're all one song away,' and it's so true. The difference between me and the guy down the street busking with his guitar case open is just one song.
Walker Hayes
Me
Guitar
Song
Street
Cliche
Just One
Away
Between
Case
Difference
Down
Everybody
Guy
His
Just
Open
Says
True
I love to watch my kids when they don't know I'm watching.
Walker Hayes
Love
Know
Watching
Watch
I Love
Kids
For years, I wrote songs to try to get cuts or try to have hits or try to appease a label or to be famous. I was learning a lot of valuable tools about structure and how to articulate. I was getting really good at that.
Walker Hayes
Good
Learning
Getting
Tools
Appease
Articulate
Cuts
Hits
Label
Structure
Valuable
About
Famous
Get
How
Lot
Really
Songs
Try
Wrote
Years
For 12 years, I was playing writer's rounds.
Walker Hayes
Playing
Years
Writer
Rounds
I will go down on my deathbed telling my kids to find songs like 'Don't Take the Girl.'
Walker Hayes
Girl
Go
Will
Like
Deathbed
Down
Find
Kids
Songs
Take
Telling
People might get mad at my style or my delivery and say it's not country. But the country music that brought me to Nashville? Man, I will always have that on a pedestal.
Walker Hayes
Me
Music
Man
People
Country Music
Delivery
Mad
Nashville
Pedestal
Always
Brought
Country
Get
Might
Say
Style
Will
I love an imperfect rhyme.
Walker Hayes
Love
Imperfect
Rhyme
I Love
I love lyrics that are not too clever.
Walker Hayes
Love
Clever
Lyrics
Too
I Love
I'm so honored to have so many supporters - from my peers to the industry to country radio - on this crazy journey with me. You all have absolutely changed my life.
Walker Hayes
Life
Me
Journey
You
Honored
Peers
Supporters
Absolutely
Changed
Country
Crazy
Industry
Many
My Life
Radio
I had a lot of wrong preconceived notions about church-y folks, and I'm bad at judging the messenger, not the message.
Walker Hayes
Bad
Wrong
About
Judging
Folks
Messenger
Notions
Preconceived
Had
Lot
Message
I'm not a churchgoer.
Walker Hayes
Talking about my addiction to alcohol is therapeutic. Most definitely telling everyone about it is as well.
Walker Hayes
Alcohol
Everyone
Addiction
Well
Therapeutic
About
Definitely
Most
Talking
Telling
My wife is so sweet... she probably gets tired of me calling her with nothing to say, but she's always there for me.
Walker Hayes
Me
Wife
Sweet
Tired
Calling
Always
Gets
Her
Nothing
Say
She
My dad was listening to me noodle around on the guitar in the house and sing, and he was like, 'Man, you're funny, and you sound good when you do that. You should do that at a bar.' I had stage fright, so I was like, 'No, Dad. Leave me alone.'
Walker Hayes
Funny
Alone
Good
Me
Bar
Fright
Leave Me Alone
Noodle
Stage Fright
Around
Dad
Guitar
Had
He
House
Leave
Like
Listening
Man
Should
Sing
Sound
Stage
You
I was a big athlete, but I think a lot of the things I did were because they were my false identity, if you will. They got me acceptance, and they got me that attention that I craved.
Walker Hayes
Me
You
Think
Will
Acceptance
Athlete
False
Attention
Because
Big
Did
Got
I Think
Identity
Lot
Things
Were
My wife and I started dating in 11th grade.
Walker Hayes
Wife
Dating
Started
Grade
I think every couple should find an artist that they dig together.
Walker Hayes
Together
Think
Artist
Find
Dig
Couple
Every
I Think
Should
Kenny Chesney's music cuts. He gets into those massive ballads like 'There Goes My Life' and 'The Good Stuff' and things like that that just crush you, and delivers them so well. Some of that you can't really put your finger on; it's just magic.
Walker Hayes
Life
Good
Music
You
Ballads
Crush
Cuts
Finger
Kenny
Magic
Massive
Gets
Goes
He
Just
Like
My Life
Put
Really
Some
Stuff
Them
Things
Those
Well
Your
The last thing I want to do is just be another voice on country music radio.
Walker Hayes
Music
Voice
Country
Want
Country Music
Just Be
Another
Just
Last
Radio
Thing
When I was at Capitol - and this was not Capitol's fault - I was aiming, you know. I would listen to country radio and go, 'What version of me does radio want?'
Walker Hayes
Me
You
Go
Country
Aiming
Capitol
Fault
Version
Does
Know
Listen
Radio
Want
Would
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