Gretchen Wilson Quotes (21 Quotes)

It's not my life story but stories from my life. And also stories from a lot of women that I grew up around and that I felt were very pivotal in my life and kind of gave me the courage and the strength to keep going. It's kind of going to be a feel-good book for women.

I got to where I couldn't listen to country radio. Country music is supposed to have steel and fiddle. When I hear country music, it should be country.

Many young people attend your concerts and purchase your music and T-shirts, ... Because your actions strongly influence the youth in your audience ... I ask you to take steps to warn young people of negative health effects of smokeless tobacco use.

As the attorney general of the home state of country music I want to discuss my concerns of your promotion of smokeless products, particularly as it relates to the youth who attend your concerts and who listen to your music,

I don't really think about having had a hard life. It was just my life, and it's all I knew. It made me who I am - all the good and bad - and it's where all of the songs on Here For The Party came from. I've lived them all.

It's a different ball game now. Just walking along and looking at every piece of equipment and every truck pulling it around ... it's all me now. I get the run of the whole stage. It's rock 'n' roll every night.

Every time I hear his voice coming in on that song, I get goose bumps. I still can't believe Merle Haggard is on my record. But I still haven't met him face to face. I've talked with him a lot on the phone, especially in the last few weeks, when we've been editing the video. It's strange to work with somebody without having ever met them. But hopefully, one of these days, I'll talk him into coming out to a show and perhaps jumping onstage to sing the song with me.

Some have a note in their bag. Some put spoons in their hair and money in their underwear, ... Oh yes, our dolls can be very silly.

I didn't feel the pressure that everybody thinks about on sophomore albums. I didn't think about it. I had final approval on all the songs. My label trusted me to know my audience. We recorded 16 songs, and we used them all.

They're the kind of people who were honest. They'd listen and tell me what they thought - the kind of honesty you need when you're trying to perfect your craft.

What I'm doing is a dream come true but at the same time its work. It's like anything else. The only time it doesn't really feel like work to me is when I'm on stage and doing what I've prepared myself for my whole life which is to stand out in front of a crowd and sing.

I wish I could say I've traveled more than I have, but I pretty much stayed in one region and I'm sure there are a lot of places like it. To me it just seems so normal around there. It's my home. It's where I grew up. The faces around there look like my kind of people. I look at faces in other parts of the country and I don't get it right off the bat, but I look at anybody up there and it just looks like home.

It became apparent to me really fast that I wasn't going to be able to make a living and pay my bills playing on Broadway.

At first I didn't think it made sense, ... But we decided if it was a hidden track, it wouldn't disrupt the flow of the record, and it would also give people the insight that there was more to a redneck woman than they might think.

The great thing is getting to play for 8, 10, 12,000 people every night, ... Stepping out on stage and singing for everybody is what it's all about. It's awesome.

I am still nervous when I travel because it is fairly new to me, ... You know, I didn't grow up traveling around the world.

It was the first time in their lives that these Romanian women earned money for their work. And for us to be able to make that happen was amazing.

Word gets around quickly in Nashville. It's a big city, but it's got that small-town gossip aspect to it. If you have something to offer, it doesn't stay a secret for very long. We kept at it ... Sony (Epic Records) turned me down twice before they gave me a record deal.

We do country, jazz, bluegrass, rocknroll with a Pink Floyd-type light show and ACDC-type pyrotechnics. Its full on. The best way I can describe it is as a rock show with country music.

If I stop and think about it, it just blows my mind. It's my stage. No restrictions. It's my party, and I am having the best time.

Honestly, I don't think it could get any better for me. But I feel like my whole team -- my band, my organization, everybody -- is getting better and better at what we do. And it's getting more and more fun as we do it. So we must be on the right track.