Latest Cody Johnson Quotes from Interviews

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• All I can focus on right now is playing that record as best we can each night on stage, and that every article or radio spot that I do gives the best depiction of what we're trying to say with this record. The next door will open when it's time to open, and hopefully I'll be lead into the right one.

  Cody Johnson

  Night, Doors, Giving

  Source: www.maroonweekly.com

• I think everything moving forward will just be instinctual, like we'll know exactly which doors to walk through when they open.

  Cody Johnson

  Moving, Thinking, Doors

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• In the back of your mind you always want it to be successful and you want things to happen, but I've learned in my life that if you want something too much, even when it happens it may not be what you wanted if you set your expectations too high.

  Cody Johnson

  Successful, Want Something, Expectations

  Source: www.maroonweekly.com

• I'd love to do a live record, I'd love to do an acoustic record, I'm already thinking about what I may want to do with the next studio record.

  Cody Johnson

  Thinking, Records, May

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• I just continue to be myself and give this thing over to the good lord, just do my best every night and pretend like it's just any other job.

  Cody Johnson

  Jobs, Night, Giving

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• Some people weren't sure whether they wanted to get on board until the very end, and by then it's too late - so we just shake their hand and thank them for their time as well. I don't know that I'm beating anyone at their own game, other than just being myself and doing what I've promised my fans, my family, and my team that I'm going to do.

  Cody Johnson

  Team, Hands, Games

  Source: www.maroonweekly.com

• I don't know that we're beating anyone at their own game. I just think that we tried to include a lot of Nashville entities from the very beginning, just to see if that would work. We were trying to take my music to a different level and some people wanted me to change my style and my image, obviously that's not going to happen so we simply thanked those people for their time.

  Cody Johnson

  Thinking, Nashville, Games

  Source: www.maroonweekly.com

• It's something that Cory Morrow said to me a long time ago - "Don't ever forget why Nashville is Nashville. The Opry is there for a reason. Country music lives there. Don't be bitter. And don't ever treat Texas or Nashville like either one isn't important."

  Cody Johnson

  Country, Texas, Nashville

  Source: www.maroonweekly.com

• I try to make sure that, when I'm writing, I don't put too much Cody in it. But I don't want to lose it either.

  Cody Johnson

  Writing, Trying, Want

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• I try not to keep my head in the clouds .

  Cody Johnson

  Clouds, Trying, Head In The Clouds

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• One of the things that I always admired about Michael Jordan was that he considered his teammates to be his coaches, claiming they would always teach him something that he didn't know - and we're talking about the best of the best.

  Cody Johnson

  Talking, Teammate, Jordan

  Source: www.maroonweekly.com

• Without changing my style and who I am, they [Trent Willmon and Dan Couch and Dale Oliver ] know how to draw those things out of me. It was a really cool experience on this record, because I tried really hard on the writing to make sure that I wasn't just writing it just like I wanted to.

  Cody Johnson

  Writing, Who I Am, Style

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• I really think it's just the people you put around you. For instance, you mentioned "Kiss Goodbye," that was a song that was brought to me by Dan Couch and Dale Oliver. They had already started writing it without. They had put together this whole demo of music with no lyrics.

  Cody Johnson

  Goodbye, Song, Writing

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• When you're in a room with a guy who has a vision like that, it's just one of those things where you close your eyes and just see that vision - then you just go with it. The guys that I write with are so incredible, just like my producer Trent Willmon, those guys know how to bring things out of me - especially things that I maybe didn't even know that I had.

  Cody Johnson

  Writing, Eye, Guy

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• I think if you expect it to do well, you come off a little bit cocky.

  Cody Johnson

  Cocky, Thinking, Littles

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• In the back of my mind, I want it to do well, but at the end of the day I literally just got down on my knees and prayed - "However you want this thing to go lord, let it go that way." Low and behold, it did what it did and it's doing what it's doing. I'm just trying to sit in the saddle on this deal, just trying to stay on board!

  Cody Johnson

  Mind, The End Of The Day, Let It Go

  Source: www.maroonweekly.com

• It wasn't just Willie and Waylon, there were a lot of influences there. The coolest thing about this, is after getting to listen back to all these mixes is realizing that this record is like a bag of Skittles; every time you pull something out, it's a different flavor. But they're all Skittles. They're all Cody Johnson.

  Cody Johnson

  Different, Bags, Records

• I really tried to push every genre that I could into this record. I wanted every song to have this feel, where as soon as the listener tunes in, they say "That's CoJo, that's Cody right there." That being said, it is a little different. There's Americana, there's Bluegrass, there's some rock, there's some really George Jones-style stuff on it, slow-style Ray Price country elements, there's some modern country, a little of this and a little of that. We tried to push a lot for show versatility, because I grew up with a lot of versatility in my music.

  Cody Johnson

  Country, Song, Rocks

• Also, I think I'd like to see more out-of-state shows, man. As bad as I hate to say this, I'm looking forward to playing for nobody. That's what happens when you're a guy like me and you travel out to Sacramento, California.

  Cody Johnson

  Hate, Men, Thinking

• I hate to say stuff like this because everyone dreams about playing The Opry, everyone dreams about playing Gruene Hall, but I've always tried to not concentrate too hard on where I want to go because I know if I put too much stock into it, it would be pretty disappointing if I never got there.

  Cody Johnson

  Dream, Hate, Would Be

• Ultimately, these fans that we're blessed enough to have, the ones who pay money for tickets to come see us live, that's the bread and butter. That's the basis of what this is. Before I ever had the chance to record an album, the live show is what it's been about.

  Cody Johnson

  Blessed, Albums, Records

• There's that area, right there, where you can be too hard on yourself or you need to be really hard on yourself - I'm trying to ride that line by telling myself that I can always write better, sing better, what can we do to make the show more interesting? Pretend that you're the guy who's been in the front row for the last five shows; what would make it new for you?

  Cody Johnson

  Writing, Interesting, Guy

• Pushing myself against my own will really, because some of this stuff is hard. I don't consider myself to be a great guitar player, so pushing myself as a guitar player or pushing myself as a singer, as a performer, and just riding that fine line between being so hard on yourself that it's counter-productive and being so hard on yourself that nothing is ever good enough is what drives me.

  Cody Johnson

  Player, Guitar, Lines

• I absolutely believe that what you sing and how you act when you're in this position, should be the definition of who you are and where your heart and character stands.

  Cody Johnson

  Believe, Character, Heart

• I have a conscience, man, and I've worked really hard to keep it where you would feel like you were talking to the same man at one of my shows or sitting down at my dinner table.

  Cody Johnson

  Men, Talking, Sitting