Top 14 Ashley Monroe Quotes

I love country music so much. I love all kinds of music. But when it comes down to it, I’m from East Tennessee, and country melodies and country songs have always just sliced me in the heart.

I think, being from east Tennessee, you‘re kinda born with a little lonesome in your soul, in your blood. You know you’ve got that Appalachian soul.

I make up stories in my head all the time, but I’ve never written them down. But I write a lot of story songs. Any song I’m singing, I sort of see it like a movie in my head. That’s why a lot of times I close my eyes when I’m singing.

I always sang when I was little-bitty girl. I sang all the time. And then I’m from Knoxville, Tennessee, so I sang in a show at Pigeon Forge, Tennessee. You know, they have all those variety shows where Dollywood is. And I sang there and yodeled and clogged, but I never wrote my own songs.

Baseball fans! Good lord! I feel like sports fans get mad at you easier than country music fans. It scares me. I’m glad that country fans don’t get mad every time I mess up.

One of my favorite things to do is sit around and listen to old records… You’re forced to listen to the whole thing. And it’s so cool digging through the bins trying to find them. I get giddy about records.

I had no idea when I moved to Nashville people just were songwriters. I had no idea. So I guess I was selling myself as a singer when I first moved here. But then right after I first moved, I started writing a lot.

The core of me is country. It’s what I love. It’s what I write. Even when I sing pop stuff, I’m still singing it ‘countrily.’

The first record I made when I was 17. Labels merged and plans didn’t work out, but plans never work out as planned. But I never stopped making music. I never had a backup plan. I never thought, ‘Maybe I should just write, or maybe I should…’ I just kept going.

I love music so much. I’ve got something going all the time. I’ve gotta be singing. I’ve gotta be creating music, or I’m not happy.

I feel like everything I write about is a gift I need to share because there is somebody out there going through a similar thing that might need to hear it. I know music helped me a lot. And still does.

I feel like it’s the most unnatural thing for two humans, especially of the opposite sex, to live in harmony under one roof. You realize how different men and women are.

When my dad passed, there’s a lot of sadness right below the surface, and I think there will be until the day I die. So, writing sad songs helps it. And when I sing them, it’s pure therapy for me.

What’s the point of a song if you can’t be honest?