Ashley Monroe Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“I love music so much. I've got something going all the time. I've gotta be singing. I've gotta be creating music, or I'm not happy.”

“Roy Acuff's from Maynardville, and that's where a lot of my family's from. So he's, I've been told, a distant cousin, as well.”

“That can definitely mess with your music - if you overthink. 'What's radio going to think?' or 'What are these people going to think?'”

“The core of me is country. It's what I love. It's what I write. Even when I sing pop stuff, I'm still singing it 'countrily.'”

“What's the point of a song if you can't be honest?”

“Baseball fans! Good lord! I feel like sports fans get mad at you easier than country music fans. It scares me. I'm glad that country fans don't get mad every time I mess up.”

“I had no idea when I moved to Nashville people just were songwriters. I had no idea. So I guess I was selling myself as a singer when I first moved here. But then right after I first moved, I started writing a lot.”

“I make up stories in my head all the time, but I've never written them down. But I write a lot of story songs. Any song I'm singing, I sort of see it like a movie in my head. That's why a lot of times I close my eyes when I'm singing.”

“The first record I made when I was 17. Labels merged and plans didn't work out, but plans never work out as planned. But I never stopped making music. I never had a backup plan. I never thought, 'Maybe I should just write, or maybe I should...' I just kept going.”

“To just get in front of different kinds of audiences is important for me. I do think it's important for music to be a big family. Whether it's country or not.”