“Macon has such a rich musical history - and the state of Georgia, as well.”
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I'm very particular about the kind of music that I record and sing, and it would be the same way about the kind of movies that I would do.
People see you onstage and the glamorous side, but they don't see you traveling 600 miles a night, eating truck stop food and spending by yourself staring at walls.
If you say, 'I'm going to cut this song because I know the teenagers are going to love it, ' well, then you're going to alienate everybody else. When I cut my record, I'm just going to cut the things that I like, and whoever likes it, likes it. That's too much work to try to figure out the demographic. That's too much like a business.
In the music business, especially the country music business, every 10 years or so you're going to have this changing of the guard, this wave of new artists that comes in.