Hunter Hayes quotes

I want to find someone who's really into something like I'm really into something, so that I can support them and we can both cheer each other on. I've got a lot of dreams I want to achieve, and I hope someone can cheer me on as I'll cheer them on in their dreams.
-- Hunter Hayes

#Dream #Cheer #Support

I'm not a photographer, so I need all the help I can get when it comes to make a picture look cool.
-- Hunter Hayes

#Needs #Looks #Helping

I could be myself. I'm very shy and awkward. I think the best thing is to embrace it.
-- Hunter Hayes

#Thinking #Awkward #Shy

There's so much more to life than what you're feeling now
-- Hunter Hayes

#Feelings #More To Life

The rule of songwriting: say what you want to say, say it again, say it a different way, then say it again.
-- Hunter Hayes

#Different #Want #Way

Encore' was an experiment. 'Encore' was the second chance at a first impression. 'Encore' was not completely planned.
-- Hunter Hayes

#Second Chance #First Impression #Firsts

Like a wave on the ocean I will always come right back to you.
-- Hunter Hayes

#Country #Song #Ocean

When I was in high school, I had binders with pictures of tour buses.
-- Hunter Hayes

#School #High School #Bus

My favorite song depends on the day, what I’m going through, what I’m feeling.
-- Hunter Hayes

#Song #Feelings #My Favorite

When I was 13 or 14, I took seven months off from touring. I did a lot of weekend gigs in Louisiana. We have fairs and festivals every weekend. But I took seven months off. That's when I really started digging deep. I wrote a couple songs that year that I still play every now and then for people.
-- Hunter Hayes

#Song #Couple #Weekend

Robert Duvall saw me playing at a restaurant in Louisiana and invited me to be an extra in his movie 'The Apostle.' He gave me a guitar for my sixth birthday, and I thought that was the coolest thing in the world.
-- Hunter Hayes

#Guitar #Louisiana #World

My mom makes the best Cajun stuff. I'm a big gumbo guy. I've lost a lot of my Louisiana accent, so now when I say 'gumbo,' I feel like someone who's never said the word before.
-- Hunter Hayes

#Mom #Guy #Cajuns

Meeting Stevie Wonder was a massive, lifetime achievement for me. He's one of the sweetest people. I sense a kindred spirit in him, and I hope he'd say the same. Actually, he did.
-- Hunter Hayes

#People #Achievement #Spirit

I've got some crazy, stupid big goals. I really wanna headline arenas. I wanna have such a big crew that we've got to have 20 or 30 buses on the road because that's how big the show we're putting on is.
-- Hunter Hayes

#Stupid #Crazy #Goal

I've always been shy, but I see that as a good thing because it kept me focused on music. When I was in seventh grade, I asked my parents for a mobile recording system for Christmas, and I got it. I didn't come out of my room for years after that. I'd get invited to the movies and I'd say, 'I'm gonna finish a couple of demos.'
-- Hunter Hayes

#Couple #Years #Parent

I'm naturally shy, so the social media thing is new to me. I haven't really figured out how my voice sounds on social media, you know? I don't want to tweet everyday just for the sake of tweeting. I want to make sure whatever I do there is honest. Social media can very quickly get fake, and I don't want to be that guy.
-- Hunter Hayes

#Voice #Media #Guy

I'm from Louisiana, and that's where I got my start, in Cajun music. There's a huge music scene down there centered around our culture. Those are people that are not making music for a living. They are making music for the fun of it. And I think that's the best way I could have been introduced to music.
-- Hunter Hayes

#Fun #Thinking #People

At 22, there’s a lot of trying to figure out love, which at the end of the day, I’ve realized I’ll never figure out, though the process of trying is fun.
-- Hunter Hayes

#Fun #The End Of The Day #Trying

Don’t be afraid to do something different Dare to be something more.
-- Hunter Hayes

#Different #Dare

I don't even have a type, I don't think. My type is just whoever can get along with me.
-- Hunter Hayes

#Thinking #Type

My dad said 'When you love what you do, you never work a day in your life,' and I agree with that.
-- Hunter Hayes

#Dad #Said #My Dad

I used to think there was a scientific way to do things. Like a proper way to answer a question or that kind of stuff. It's like, there's not! There's not a method, there's not a science to it.
-- Hunter Hayes

#Thinking #Answers #Stuff

Singing live is my favorite. When people sing along to your songs, the circle is complete.
-- Hunter Hayes

#Song #Circles #People

The stage is my comfort zone, and playing live is what I've always wanted to do. It's why I want to do two hundred dates a year. I wouldn't feel that way if I were nervous onstage.
-- Hunter Hayes

#Years #Two #Comfort

Unfortunately, I'm more experienced than I care to admit on long-distance relationships. Just because that is my life. I travel because I love to. As a result, I have to sort of make it work when a relationship kind of comes into view.
-- Hunter Hayes

#Long Distance Relationship #Views #Care

Anyone who tells you they're not nervous playing on the CMAs stage, I'm afraid they're not telling you the whole story.
-- Hunter Hayes

#Stories #Nervous #Stage

I hope people half my age and twice my age will listen to my music - I want it to live forever and for my audience to feel like they have a friend in my music. Music is a spirit. It heals. It's an amazing thing to be loved and appreciated, and sometimes, music has not just been my best friend, it's been my only friend.
-- Hunter Hayes

#People #Forever #Age

A good album can make your day. A great album can change your life.
-- Hunter Hayes

#Albums #Changing Your Life

Albums are chapters. They're part of a story.
-- Hunter Hayes

#Albums #Stories #Chapters

I don't have a girlfriend. I don't know if I have a type, but I really like girls who are driven. I really care about music, so I like it when a girl really cares about something too. Whatever it is they are into, I'll be their biggest fan.
-- Hunter Hayes

#Girl #Fans #Care

Crowded hallways, are the loneliest places, for outcasts and rebels,or anyone who just dares to be different.
-- Hunter Hayes

#Rebel #Different #Outcast

I was addicted to playing music.
-- Hunter Hayes

#Playing Music

I started writing when I was around 6. I say 'writing,' but it was really just making up stuff! I started writing and doing my own thing. I didn't really know what a demo was or anything like that, so I started getting interested in studio gear and started learning about one instrument at a time. My first instrument was an accordion.
-- Hunter Hayes

#Writing #Firsts #Gears

I love the practicality of a good car. You know what I mean? And when I say 'practicality,' I mean the complete practicality of a Ferrari 458, a wonderfully fantastic every day car.
-- Hunter Hayes

#Mean #Car #Ferrari

Thank you to country radio for believing in me.
-- Hunter Hayes

#Thank You #Country #Believe

I've got a lot of dreams I want to achieve, and I hope someone can cheer me on as I'll cheer them on in their dreams.
-- Hunter Hayes

#Dream #Cheer #Want

I truly believe that when you've found the one you're searching for, you become a better version of yourself. You're better for it.
-- Hunter Hayes

#Believe #Found

I love flying planes.
-- Hunter Hayes

#Flying #Planes

I believe when you meet the right person it clicks, and you both know and you start making it work, you know?
-- Hunter Hayes

#Believe #Clicks #Persons

I am, by nature, a guitar player... I learned all of these other instruments around that, and around the theory that I built learning the guitar.
-- Hunter Hayes

#Player #Guitar #Theory

All the people I hung out with were musicians.
-- Hunter Hayes

#People #Musician #Hung

If I could make noise with anything, I was going to.
-- Hunter Hayes

#Noise

I'm in my dream world.
-- Hunter Hayes

#Dream #World

I just love music gear, I'm a total geek all around.
-- Hunter Hayes

#Gears #Geek #Music Love

I grew up in a fun-loving environment - you work hard and play hard.
-- Hunter Hayes

#Fun #Hard Work #Play

All I knew when I moved to Nashville was that I wanted to make music in whatever shape and form I could.
-- Hunter Hayes

#Nashville #Shapes #Form

I am blessed beyond belief.
-- Hunter Hayes

#Blessed #Belief

Yes, I did lock myself in my room for about two years and write some songs and things like that. But I don't feel like I missed out on a whole lot.
-- Hunter Hayes

#Song #Writing #Years

All my band members were old enough to be my dad. It was like this family vibe.
-- Hunter Hayes

#Dad #Band #Enough

I have a string of competitiveness in me. It's really strange 'cause it's not something that I would even expect myself to have, but every now and then it kinda sneaks out, you know.
-- Hunter Hayes

#Causes #Strange #Now And Then

I always loved LeAnn Rimes and especially Clint Black for his soulfulness. As I've gotten older, my influences have broadened - John Mayer, Michael Buble, Stevie Wonder, Keith Urban, Stevie Ray Vaughn, the Beatles - all of these artists have somehow been a part of my development as a songwriter.
-- Hunter Hayes

#Artist #Black #Development

Growing up in Louisiana, my grandmother gave me an accordion because of our Cajun heritage. What ended up happening was I started learning about more instruments, so I just kind of went that route. Music's really all I've ever done.
-- Hunter Hayes

#Growing Up #Grandmother #Cajuns

A bass player has to think and play like a bass player. A drummer has to play and think like a drummer, and stay out of the way of the vocalist. The guitar player has to respect everybody else.
-- Hunter Hayes

#Thinking #Player #Guitar

To be the name on somebody's shirt that they've made themselves in preparation for one of your shows - it doesn't get much cooler than that.
-- Hunter Hayes

#Names #Preparation #Shirts

There's a lot of people I'd like to write with, like Keith Urban or even as far out as Stevie Wonder.
-- Hunter Hayes

#Writing #People #Keith

My first instrument was an accordion. Growing up in Louisiana, my grandmother gave me an accordion because of our Cajun heritage.
-- Hunter Hayes

#Growing Up #Grandmother #Cajuns

In any city or town, you can find a good, rocking Italian place. The most unhealthy thing on the menu? I'll have two of those!
-- Hunter Hayes

#Italian #Cities #Two

Anytime I can go fly for a few hours, I go. It's stressful and stress-relieving at the same time.
-- Hunter Hayes

#Stress #Hours #Stressful

As a new artist - I don't care who you talk to - I think everyone would agree, it's hard to get your expectations right.
-- Hunter Hayes

#Thinking #Artist #Expectations

I am grateful I got the chance to meet Stevie Wonder! He's like royalty to me and is one of my biggest inspirations.
-- Hunter Hayes

#Inspiration #Grateful #Chance

I write for myself. I don't write because I have a record coming out. I write because I want to. I need to.
-- Hunter Hayes

#Writing #Needs #Records

I'm a nerd. Total geek. I never went to homecoming or prom or anything.
-- Hunter Hayes

#Nerd #Geek #Homecoming

Every time I take a photo, it goes into SnapSeed. Even if it's just a price tag on something, it still goes into SnapSeed, and I start editing it. I'm not a photographer, so I need all the help I can get when it comes to make a picture look cool.
-- Hunter Hayes

#Editing #Needs #Looks

When you hear his music, mine will all of a sudden make sense.
-- Hunter Hayes

#Make Sense

There is a bit of a movement as far as younger people in country music. That is cool because people are saying things like, 'I didn't listen to country music until so-and-so came along.' And I'm like, 'Yeah! Now you know why I love it.
-- Hunter Hayes

#Country #People #Movement

I am a huge, huge Ronnie Milsap fan. I have been for a long time.
-- Hunter Hayes

#Long #Fans

I don't believe in making a record and rushing it.
-- Hunter Hayes

#Believe #Rushing #Records