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Gary Allan
American
Musician
Born:
Dec 5
,
1967
Always
Me
Music
People
Think
You
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Life ain't always beautiful, but it's a beautiful ride.
Gary Allan
Life
Beautiful
Ride
Always
No matter who you meet in life, you take something from them, positive or negative.
Gary Allan
Positive
Life
You
Matter
Negative
Meet
Something
Take
Them
Who
When my wife passed, I stopped doing interviews and I stopped doing meet-and-greets, mostly because I sort of became this suicide ambassador. Everybody wanted to tell me their story.
Gary Allan
Me
Wife
Suicide
Everybody
Interviews
Tell
Mostly
Sort
Became
Because
Passed
Doing
Ambassador
Stopped
Wanted
Story
Shoot, there's a committee to tell you everything at a record label. You definitely have to know who you are if you want to look like you at the end of the process. We've all seen people get record contracts, and by the time they're spit out by the machine, we don't even recognize them.
Gary Allan
Time
You
People
Seen
Everything
Machine
Definitely
Recognize
Out
Tell
Record
Record Label
Spit
Like
Know
Look
Label
End
Contracts
Get
Shoot
Committee
Want
Process
Them
Who
Even
By The Time
I think you need to do something new to keep reinventing yourself.
Gary Allan
You
Yourself
Think
Something
Something New
New
Keep
Reinventing
Need
When you take other people's opinions, you end up flailing and you have no center.
Gary Allan
You
People
Other
Take
Opinions
End
Up
Flailing
Center
To me, country music's about life. It's about Monday through Friday. It's the blue-collar, 40-hour week, songs about life. It used to have more of a sound, but I think the heart of that's still the same. It's still American music.
Gary Allan
Life
Music
Me
Heart
Country
Monday
Think
About
More
Week
Through
Songs
Sound
Still
Friday
American
Same
Blue-Collar
American Music
Used
I've never listened to an album once I've finished it. All I hear is what I should've done different. I beat myself up over it.
Gary Allan
Myself
Finished
Once
Beat
Never
Over
Over It
Hear
Up
Done
Listened
Different
Album
Country was about character. Country's changed because of monsters like Clear Channel who bought up all the stations and sliced them up into formats. Our demographic is now the soccer mom.
Gary Allan
Mom
Character
Country
Changed
Channel
Monsters
Our
Sliced
Stations
About
Clear
Bought
Like
Because
Demographic
Up
Formats
Soccer
Them
Who
Now
It's always performing for me. I write and I record so I can perform. It all ties to that. I've done it since I was a little kid. That's my absolute rush, is playing for different people every night, bringing something else to the table they've never seen.
Gary Allan
Me
People
Seen
Every
Else
Kid
Table
Record
Rush
Something
Something Else
Absolute
Write
Never
Perform
Since
Performing
Ties
Always
Done
Different
Little
Little Kid
Different People
Bringing
Playing
Every Night
Night
If you're truly in a band and you guys have been together for a long time, there's a family bond that you have. In fact, I've talked about this with therapists, especially if you're talking about a relationship, because when you're with somebody, you're going to your family, and she's alone.
Gary Allan
Alone
Time
Family
Relationship
You
Together
Somebody
Long
Long Time
Band
About
Guys
Fact
She
Talked
Talking
Because
Been
Truly
Going
You Guys
In Fact
Your
Therapists
Bond
If you date a musician, you're never, ever really gonna be first either. You're gonna be right behind the music and maybe right close.
Gary Allan
Music
You
First
Musician
Date
Never
Close
Behind
Maybe
Either
Gonna
Really
Ever
Right
I've had fans come and knock on my door. I'm usually polite, but I'm usually very direct and say, 'It's not cool that you come here uninvited.'
Gary Allan
You
Fans
Say
Direct
Had
Knock
Come
Polite
Very
Door
Uninvited
Cool
Here
If you come on my property, I've got you from the second that you enter on. There's little lasers... my TVs come on in my room and fall just right on you. So, there's no way to sneak up on me. And I've got a loud dog.
Gary Allan
Me
You
Property
Dog
Fall
Way
Enter
Come
Got
Sneak
Up
Loud
Just
Little
Room
Right
Second
Anytime something starts to feel like a popularity contest or not about the music, I'd rather just not be involved. I'm not a big high-fiver. That really gets to people around me when we have a No. 1 or something big happen. I'm not a big, 'Let's go have a party about it!'
Gary Allan
Music
Me
People
Big
Party
Starts
About
Something
Rather
Feel
Like
Involved
Around
Contest
Go
Gets
Just
Happen
Anytime
Really
Popularity
Popularity Contest
I try to write relevant songs about life and whatever I'm going through and whatever people are going through.
Gary Allan
Life
People
Try
Whatever
Relevant
About
Through
Write
Songs
Going
I try never to focus on the radio, just find great songs, find emotion and just write the best songs you can. I think when you get fixated on trying to do something too accurate, it becomes more washed out and less what you intended it to be. So I think each time the challenge for me is to try and reinvent a little bit.
Gary Allan
Time
Best
Great
Me
You
Try
Challenge
Focus
Think
Too
Bit
Out
Find
Something
More
Emotion
Write
Never
Songs
Great Songs
Becomes
Fixated
Accurate
Get
Trying
Intended
Just
Little
Little Bit
Less
Radio
Washed
Each
Each Time
Reinvent
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