Carolina Quotes
Because of the way we grew up I can play Waylon, Cash, Hank, any of those guys — give me a guitar and I can go round for round with anybody — and I have a ton of reverence for where they took the music from and brought it to, but I just think it’s our job to pick up that flag and take it somewhere else. It may be wrong, and history may judge us different, but I think we have to take it somewhere otherwise I don’t think it survives.
Eric Church Carolinian
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Interview with Michael Burland, The American, London, April 22, 2013
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“Because of the way we grew up I can play Waylon, Cash, Hank,…” Eric Church. Carolina Quotes, record CQ-095D685C99. https://carolinaquotes.com/quote/095d685c99
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Stuff like that is valuable, though, to anybody that wants to do this, because it makes you resolve how badly you want to do it. If you’re willing to give up everything for it, then you want it bad enough.
The values that I have and the things I believe in were formed in Granite Falls. Things like honesty, hard work, putting in the effort — that’s how I ended up where I am now. I watched everybody there. You get up at five o’clock in the morning, you go down to the plant, you punch the clock, you work all day — that’s what they do.
It’s part of who we were, part of paying your dues. I played every sewer, twice.