Coy Bowles Quotes

My mother is very good at sewing and makes wonderful quilts.

If the people that love you are the people at your side on your last day, and there’s not a soul in that room that has any bad words to say about you, well, I’d say Heaven awaits you, my friend.

I’ve really learned a lot from Zac Brown over the years. He is someone that I consider to be one of my best friends, and besides my parents, he has taught me more than anyone else. Zac is, by nature, a giving and understanding person.

I try as hard as I can to push myself. I try to create as much as I can. I try to grow on a daily basis.

We try not to think that our listeners are one-track-minded people with the music they listen to.

We never think about how many awards we’ve won. We just want to make the best music we can.

I learned real fast that you need to have a plan of action when changing diapers, or it can get dicey fast.

You don’t realize how beautiful an idea is until you do it with other people. There’s this really shimmery, awesome thing when you start finishing a song – where the song just starts writing itself.

I can play in front of 30,000 people at Fenway and not be nervous at all. But I get really nervous in front of kids.

I like music that not only has a pop melody to it but is also deeply about something.

Carlos Sosa, the saxophone player for Zac Brown Band, and I worked up two songs for ‘When You’re Feeling Sick.’ They were a blast to work on. The songs are real upbeat and silly.

My dad is basically my best friend. I’m that dude’s spitting image and couldn’t be more proud of that. They just don’t come any better than my dad.

You’re part of the problem or the solution. Solution means, in my opinion, to be taking extra time and energy in trying to give back to the world.

I’m just grateful. I’m grateful for my family, my wife, and our health. I’m grateful to be in a band of brothers that I love so, so, so much. I’m grateful that this magical combination of dudes makes music that people like and moves them.

The tour is like our bread and butter. You don’t really get to experience the band unless you see us live.

Sometimes I have a little social anxiety, and meeting people can be a challenge for me.

I’m so grateful to have been raised on love and to be so in love with my wife.

Just to be part of the history of the Hollywood Bowl – so many people have played there; at least, all of my heroes have.

I’m a blues guy at heart, so silly music isn’t generally what I do. I’m a I’ll-cry-as-my-guitar-gently-weeps kind of guy.

I live a life of creating, sharing music with wonderful musicians that I love like family, and spreading a message through music that life is yours to live wide open, and do it your way with love.

I got into writing short stories and blogs while on the road.

I love coming back home and seeing old friends and family. I would say it keeps me grounded.

We listen to so many different types of music, so it’s easy for us to play a different genre or style and it be true to what we do.

We are all big Motown fans.

A lot of times, people ask us about being a country band, and we say, ‘Well, we’re not really a country band.’ And we’re not knocking country, because we like it, but we don’t want to be limited.

Songwriting is a big deal to me.

My goal for children‘s books is to have them become tableside or bedside classics. To me, it would be awesome to write a book that every kid would end up reading at some point in their life because influencing kids in a positive way at such a young age is really cool.

The recipe to our success is that you have a bunch of different guys who listen to a lot of different music.

Once you start getting into giving back, it gets addictive.

I don’t usually suggest going into something you cannot do, but sometimes you gotta jump in and land on your feet.

I never thought we were a country band in the first place. I think we’ve gotten ourselves into a place where we don’t underestimate our listeners and what potential there is for the music they’ve heard all their lives.

My father is a very skilled carpenter. He can do just about anything with his hands. He is very artistic with his carpentry.

I firmly believe if you start something, you should finish it.