Tom's Country View

"We can't wait to work with you, but that song you're giving to Jason Aldean, that's going to be your debut single. You need to ask for it back." (Barry Weiss [CEO for RECORDS] / billboard.com, 5. Jänner 2024)

"[In the 90s] country music had to sound a certain way and had to look a certain way. If people weren't wearing a cowboy hat you might as well pack it up and go back home. And now, what it is, what does it look like, how do you describe it? It is so many different varieties. And we have clearly seen that this has helped us." (John Osborne / BBC, The Country Show with Bob Harris, March 11, 2024)

"That’s blood and hair in that picture from castrating bulls and giving them shots that day. We didn’t stage any of that. We got started at 5:00 a.m. and worked all day and he ended up getting some incredible photos while we were working." (Cody Johnson / Billboard.com,  October 13, 2023)

"The gentle ballad “I Hope You Do” is a letter to himself as a child that begins with a voice recording of him as a six-year-old. Like all of Summerville, it bears the subtle imprint of his wife. 'She told me, 'When you get down on yourself, just understand that that kid is who you're living for. You’re trying to make that kid proud.'" (chasebryant.com/bio / January 2024)

"What makes a song a banger? The most important is the hook, that sticks in your head, after you hear the song just once. In addition it will also have a solid beat, that you can't help but move to. And recognizability is also key." (DJ Rinehart / deepinthemix.com, July 23 2023)

" It’s tempting, as an artist trying to make a name for himself, to lean into what is working in the industry - to chase the trends I hear on the radio and try to change my sound and my style to better ‘fit in’ to the Nashville game." (Matt Jordan / facebook.com, February 15, 2024)

"Everybody wanna know, where did all the cowboys go? Musta been the whiskey, maybe it was all the Marlboros. But it ain't none of that, that laid 'em all low, yeah, believe me, I know." (Killed The Cowboy / Jordan Reynolds, Anderson East, Devin Dawson)