We’ve collected the best Dierks Bentley Quotes. Use them as an inspiration.
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I put a lot of time into making sure my relationship with my family is well taken care of because I want to be as successful as a father as I am as an entertainer.
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I discovered early on that I was more of a strummer than a picker.
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I think the great country songs mixed with some of that bluegrass instrumentation – and surrounding all that with a little bit of a rock vibe and energy – is the kind of music I make.
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Most of my read on America is through looking through the front windshield of a bus and hanging out with country music fans backstage.
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The transformation that happens when a young artist goes on the road – you put the acoustic guitar down and start to play the electric a little louder – it gets a little bit ragged.
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I was like, ‘Man, bluegrass – that’s like Roy Clark playing banjo on ‘Hee Haw.’ I’m a huge ‘Hee Haw’ fan. But I didn’t know about bluegrass. It seemed like old people‘s music.
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That’s what we get to do as songwriters, right? You get to explore stuff.
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I like big shows, a lot of volume and a lot of energy. I love electric instruments. But I do love mixing those with bluegrass instruments and cranking those up, too, with a little bit of that rock energy.
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I really can’t tell you the feeling I feel, like, being on stage: it’s such a high; it’s like running a marathon. You just can’t get that feeling anywhere else.
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I ask myself all the time, ‘Why keep doing this?’ If I wasn’t exploring or finding something to write about that was personal or meant something, there’d be no reason. If I was ever making a record just to make a record, or ever just like, ‘Just put something out there that someone will buy,’ I would quit.
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The radio is not show fun, it’s show business. It’s money.
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It’s hard to make music when you’re not excited about it. So trying new things and going for new things is something that I can enjoy doing.
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I also was a huge ‘Dukes of Hazzard’ fan. I used to have T-shirts that said ‘Dierks of Hazzard’ custom-made.
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I do see the world as being different for girls – especially now, having daughters.
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