Chip Esten famous quotes

When your dad is a country music fan and you take long car trips, you become one too.
-- Chip Esten

#Country #Dad #Long

Doing a scene truthfully is very similar to doing a song truthfully. They're really parallel.
-- Chip Esten

#Song #Scene

Elvis Costello's song writing is so peerless and individualistic. It's storytelling and it's deeply intelligent and clever.
-- Chip Esten

#Song #Clever #Writing

Now that I'm in 'Nashville,' the thing that I'm loving the most is co-writing. You walk into the room and you shake hands with someone you've never met before and you walk out four hours later and you've got this thing... sharing ideas and everything, it's almost magical, like a miracle.
-- Chip Esten

#Writing #Nashville #Hands

'Nashville' songs and country music have always been about storytelling and about the heart and confessionals. They're monologues.
-- Chip Esten

#Country #Song #Heart

God requires no person to spend his or her life reiterating the gospel to people who will not receive it. He wants everyone to have an opportunity to hear. Then He would have us move on to other areas. The mistake of the church has been that she sits down to convert all the people in one country to the neglect of the great masses who have never had the chance to hear the gospel - not even once!

I think in this country we're committed to developing plays, and many plays I've seen have been rewritten too much. The scenes are tight, the play ends at the right time, you know exactly what the scene is about, but it seems flat; you can almost see that too many hands have been on the play. The individual voice is gone.

The obedient in art are always the forgotten . . . The country is glorious but its beauties are unknown, and but waiting for a real live artist to splash them onto canvas . . . Chop your own path. Get off the car track.

A hero would die for his country, but he'd much rather live for it.

You are talking to a leftist. I believe in the redistribution of wealth and power in the world. I believe in universal hospital care for everyone. I believe that we should not have a single homeless person in the richest country in the world. And I believe that we should not have a C.I.A. that goes around overwhelming governments and assassinating political leaders, working for tight oligarchies around the world to protect the tight oligarchy here at home.

It is always the young that make the change. You don't get these ideas when you're middle-aged. Young people have daring, creativity, imagination and personal computers. Above all, what you have as young people that's vitally needed to make social change, is impatience. You want it to happen now. There have to be enough people that say, ‘We want it now, in our lifetime.’ This is your moment. This is your opportunity. Be adventurists in the sense of being bold and daring. Be opportunists and seize this opportunity, this moment in history, to go out and save our country. It's your turn now.

Performing at my best is important to me and should be to everyone. I am blessed that my dad is a chiropractor. Getting adjusted regularly - along with practicing other good health habits that my mom helped me to establish - are all part of my goal to win in life and on the field.

I'm one of five kids and we lived on a massive farm in New South Wales with my mum and dad.

I don't know how long a child will remain utterly static in front of the television, but my guess is that it could be well into their thirties.

How long does getting thin take?