1. “You never take your fans for granted. You always appreciate them every show, night in, night out.” – Luke Bryan
2. “We’re putting on a show, and if I’m dancing and having fun, you can take a shot of the crowd, and they’ve got smiles glued to their faces.” – Luke Bryan
3. “Every night before bed, I rub my wife’s feet. She says they’re the best foot rubs on Earth.” – Luke Bryan
4. “I think the attraction to country music is the fans, the lure of the hardcore fan base.” – Luke Bryan
5. “My path is exactly where I want it to be. I’m doing my thing. I’m getting better with every album.” – Luke Bryan
6. “I thought being on stage was an amazing feeling, but there is nothing that can top watching my wife bring our son into this world.” – Luke Bryan
7. “When I’m writing a song, it’s just me and the songwriters. Then when the song is done, there are publishers that hear it, then people in my management, then my wife and my boys and my friends, and if they’re all lovin’ it, it’s kind of withstanding all the criticism I need.” – Luke Bryan
8. “I’m excited to be part of a movement that’s progressing country music. There’s always gonna be people saying, ‘It ain’t country anymore,’ but I don’t get into that whole deal.” – Luke Bryan
9. “When you get performance slots for award shows – that’s a big deal for me.” – Luke Bryan
10. “I’m a big sports fan in general.” – Luke Bryan
11. “Every day I wake up, and I lay in bed counting my blessings and saying my prayers for how fortunate I am to have great fans and health and family.” – Luke Bryan
12. “I used to work at my dad’s peanut mill and worked 15 hours a day, six days a week. So, now, riding around on a nice tour bus and doing shows, you’d have to get picky to have a downside.” – Luke Bryan
13. “I always look back to awards shows and think about being a kid watching them.” – Luke Bryan
14. “I’ll always have songs with a farm connotation on my albums. It’s in the fabric of my music, and I plan to keep it that way.” – Luke Bryan
15. “Early in my songwriting career, when I was learning a lot about writing songs, I’d force myself to sit down until I came up with something.” – Luke Bryan
16. “People hear me talk and they know my background and they immediately stereotype me as being a real, real country guy, and that’s the right stereotype. But you also want people to know you’re a little broader than that, too.” – Luke Bryan
17. “You see a lot of people out there that say they’re country, and they do their little things that are stereotypical country things, but being country is a way of life.” – Luke Bryan
18. “My thing is you just have to try to feel young and stay young. Obviously you get a little older, but I still want my music to be young. I don’t want to sound like an old dad onstage, so you just have to write music that sounds young.” – Luke Bryan
19. “I’m a really, really optimistic and really, really positive person. My main thing is, ‘Enjoy life. Celebrate life.’” – Luke Bryan
20. “I always want to make an album that lets people immerse in it, kind of like you get caught up in a good movie.” – Luke Bryan
21. “I want to be comfortable on TV. If I’m comfortable, they’re comfortable watching me. I think nothing’s more icky than watching icky on TV.” – Luke Bryan
22. “I think the defining moment in my career is the day that I moved to Nashville – September 1, 2001. That’s the biggest step to getting here is making that move. Anything that happens, the wonderful opportunities that happen to you, can’t happen until you make that move.” – Luke Bryan
23. “From my dad I learned to be good to people, to always be honest and straightforward. I learned hard work and perseverance.” – Luke Bryan
24. “Nothing is more rewarding than to take a song, create it out of thin air and then watch it affect people.” – Luke Bryan
25. “When you look into the eyes of your people out there that came to see you, that’s when it’s like, ‘Yep, this is what it’s all about.’ This is why we don’t sleep, and this is why we write songs and try to be the best. This moment right here onstage.” – Luke Bryan
26. “I try to be a good representative of country music. But as a country artist, it’s important to move the needle and make a difference beyond your core audience.” – Luke Bryan
27. “Life’s up and down from the time you get here to the time you leave.” – Luke Bryan
28. “To have your first No. 1 as an artist was everything I could have ever dreamed for. Now we’re keeping our fingers crossed, and hopefully, we’ll have many more, but there’s certainly nothing like the first one.” – Luke Bryan
29. “You always have to work to become a better singer, songwriter, and performer.” – Luke Bryan
30. “Anytime I sing the anthem, it is an honor and my heart beats out of my chest.” – Luke Bryan
31. “Rain makes corn, corn makes whiskey.” – Luke Bryan
32. “A lot of people don’t have near the amount of success as I’ve been blessed to have, and it’s all about working hard and hoping that continues.” – Luke Bryan
33. “I’m a little drunk on you, and high on summertime.” – Luke Bryan
34. “I grew up in a family where everybody had a good time, and we were at the lake every weekend and going to the beach and living a good life.” – Luke Bryan
35. “If I wake up one day and people tell me I’m not sexy, I’m not going to stop making good music and having fun. That ‘sex symbol’ thing is typically part of being in the limelight. You better be very talented in your music, but it’s good to be nice to look at, I guess.” – Luke Bryan
36. “I always want to have a personal relationship with everybody that works for me.” – Luke Bryan
37. “I think it’s always important to constantly keep the band on their toes and try new things that you hope will work. That’s how ‘Apologize’ was born, and maybe down the line another little song will be born by that mentality. I’ve always really liked that song.” – Luke Bryan
38. “You want women to think of you in a sexy manner. It’s all part of the business. It drives ticket sales. It’s all a part of it.” – Luke Bryan
39. “It’s pretty cool to see how far music can take you.” – Luke Bryan
40. “Just really, really believe in what you’re trying to do. Don’t let people alter that. Let people advise you and lead you down paths to make smart business decisions. But trust your instinct and trust that overwhelming drive that made you put all your dreams and everything on the line.” – Luke Bryan
41. “A big part of country music is a way of life, at least from my standpoint. That’s how I craft my music from my own life experiences.” – Luke Bryan
42. “My dad is very successful in his business. He’s always been big in having hobbies and having little ways to get away.” – Luke Bryan
43. “My thing is, when you put a bunch of rules on a tour, you have to hire three more people to enforce all the rules. So, with me, I want everyone to feel comfortable. It’s a lot of little moving parts out here, and little hiccups will come. At the end of the day, the show’s going to go on, and I want everybody to truly enjoy it.” – Luke Bryan
44. “Alcohol is perfect for me to curb the nerves a little bit.” – Luke Bryan
45. “With every album, the approach is to find the best songs you can find, write the best songs you can write, and try to sound better.” – Luke Bryan
46. “Music has certainly helped us through this old, crazy ride of life.” – Luke Bryan
47. “As far as heroes thorough the years, I’d say definitely Alabama and Randy Owen, Conway Twitty was a big influence of mine, George Strait, Lionel Richie.” – Luke Bryan
48. “I am just what I am, I’m just what you see. So I’ll make it easy, I’ll stay me.” – Luke Bryan
49. “Nothing is more frustrating to me than putting a song on an album and regret putting it on there. I’m excited that there are no songs on ‘Tailgates & Tanlines’ that I’m iffy about.” – Luke Bryan
50. “Our crew guys, it’s amazing what they have to go through to make a show happen every night.” – Luke Bryan
51. “Even with all the negativeness of the whole social media thing, I still think it’s leaps and bounds more positive.” – Luke Bryan
52. “If there are people out by the bus, I’ll come off the bus and sign autographs, too. I always want to be accessible. I always tell my fans, ‘If I ever get on the bus and don’t come off, it’s because I’m under the weather or I’m really tired.’” – Luke Bryan
53. “My first memories of music were country music and Ronnie Milsap. Where I grew up, it was what you listened to. And anything else, you were somewhat out of place.” – Luke Bryan
54. “Anytime you have a fellow artist say, ‘Loving the new Luke Bryan album,’ that’s awesome.” – Luke Bryan
55. “That always set the tone for the mood in my household, whether we had rain coming in or not – we knew the crops would be good and it was going to be a good week around the Bryan household.” – Luke Bryan
56. “There’s always gonna be guys who are just wonderful singers and probably shouldn’t be writing songs. Then there’s always gonna be guys who move up the ranks writing. I don’t know what’s healthier or what’s the best thing – probably whatever yields the best songs.” – Luke Bryan
57. “I’m kind of at a point in my career where I can get away with traditional stuff and then get away with some more rocky and pop and edgier stuff, too.” – Luke Bryan
58. “I think certainly after every show I headline, I will be available to the fans. When I’m headlining a show, I don’t walk off stage. I’ll walk to the front of the stage and sign hats and shirts and tickets for 15 to 30 minutes until everyone has everything signed.” – Luke Bryan
59. “I’ve been out with lots of other artists opening for them on tour, and you just learn that none of their success came easy—it was all hard work for them, and you have to buckle down and get ready for the hard work yourself, too.” – Luke Bryan
60. “Obviously, fans are the beginning and end for any artist. The minute your fans embrace you and accept you, you begin this ride of being in music and having a career doing something you love. You get to go be a kid and live out your dreams by performing music for fans who come out to your shows.” – Luke Bryan
61. “We’re putting on a show, and if I’m dancing and having fun, you can take a shot of the crowd, and they’ve got smiles glued to their faces.” – Luke Bryan