Quotes About Honesty

I hate the business part of music. Music is just like the streets. There's loyal and disloyal people, people saying one thing and then don't do it.

Country music is completely punk-rock. It's the original punk-rock.

My music is some of the most honest music that's been released and I think that's why people buy it.

I try to make music that's really real. I've always liked music that makes me feel something. I'm not a brain first, music second person.

I'm not out there trying to change the world. I'm just out there trying to sing country music the best way I can.

Measure a man by his actions fully from the beginning to the end. Don't take a piece out of my life or a song out of my music and say this is what I'm about because you know better than that.

I want everything, no matter what concept or genre, to feel real, because it is real. I want to keep making real music, I hope people remember me for that, that's a good thing to be remembered for.

Being honest is my job. That's what music is for me.

Anyone who tells a lie has not a pure heart, and cannot make a good soup.

I know absolutely nothing about music.

The most important things are that you are honest with yourself and that making music comes from your heart

Music is the one thing in which there is no use trying to deceive others or make false pretenses.

True country music is honesty, sincerity, and real life to the hilt.

To be honest with my music... for me to expect anyone to connect it has to come from a place of honesty.

It was my Fat Elvis period. I was eating and drinking like a pig. I was depressed and I was crying out for help. It's real. And I meant it.

My musical ambitions are not that great. I make music I like, and thankfully - for my ability to make an (fairly...) honest living - at least some others like the music too.

You shouldn't be in the music business if you're posing.

It's more difficult to write a song about having your heart ripped out of your chest while you're in love. Because it lacks honesty. And the honesty comes through in the music, it really does.

The singing of the songs of Zion, though imperfectly, with the inspiration of God, will touch the hearts of the honest more effectively than if sung well without the Spirit of God.

My first two records are so simply constructed. The reason isn't because I wanted to make simple music. It's because I don't really have the chops.

I don't feel comfortable making empty music.

When I write songs I write for myself...I'm writing it as a form of expression, and hoping to find an audience, an audience that responds to music that is honest and lyrical and tells stories.

In all honesty, I'm not really familiar with Stevie Wonder's music, since country is more of my style. I really have no idea what I am doing.

I don't like my language watered down, I don't like my edges rounded off.