"We’ve been a long-time touring band, and have hung together and grown closer and tighter as a band."
"If there's any musician I want to emulate, it's Willie."
"I wanted to show them how much I appreciated them," Green explains in his label biography. "I had a pretty cool chord arrangement going and started thinking about Willie Nelson's shoes. I mean, just think about all the places and things his shoes have seen – from the top of the White House to walking around some square in Amsterdam to China and wherever else he's been. Willie's had an amazing life and career. The lyric says, 'I've got these crusty shoes down on my feet, and I could write a book about the places that they've seen.' It's the story of how I picture their lives." Pat talking about "Threadbare Gypsy Soul".
“Love is love, family is family and money is paper.”
"In Texas, our shows are a lot of fun. Up there in Nashville, I can't say we've got the same size crowd, but they've got the same mentality. Very excited, fun-loving people, and that's the same kind of person I am," he tells The Rage. "I have as much fun in Nashville as I do anywhere else. It doesn't matter where we're playing, we attract the same people. They're not looking to slow dance very much."
"Will I ever go Mainstream? (Nashville?) No. Thats All. No.
"That was really true. I was dating a girl in college and we broke up, and I was wanting to get back together with her. Then she started dating a guy from Nashville who was from a rich family. I'm sure he wasn't a bad guy whatsoever. I just didn't like him for taking my dream away. It turns out he was a good guy in the long run, and they don't date anymore anyway. And I got another girl, so who cares?" Pat on, "George's Bar"
"When we met with Republic Records, it was a natural connection for me," GREEN says. "I didn't want people telling me what songs were going to be on my record and what musicians were going to play on them. I wanted it to be my band, my songs, my sound, and my comfort level. I'm not here to buck the system, either. I'm just a guy who likes my job and wants to continue doing it. Republic had complete faith in me, which blew my doors down."
"Whenever I get to writing, it's typically happy," GREEN says. "The cowboy rides away with the girl and the bad guys are all dead. That's the kind of songs I write. I don't have a big dark deep side. That's one of the things I have to admit. I am an optimist. I have no room in my life for negativity."
"It was a long trip to try to accomplish a simple goal," GREEN says. "It would have been a lot easier had I gone a different route, but I felt like I wouldn't have been able to be myself or maintain autonomy over my music. My plan was to establish myself enough so when I did negotiate with a record label I wouldn't have to be polished and twisted around too much."
"I started playing guitar to pick up the chicks," GREEN laughs. "Before that, I only sang in the shower. I could mimic other people's voices. It took me a long time to find my own voice but once I did I became very comfortable with it. It's not real pretty but it's believable."
"I don't give a damn about what those people say!"
"I believe in absolute faith. Lack of integrity is a waste of time. You pay your bills and you take care of your family and you grow old and die. I'm just here to have a good time and it floors me every day that I get to do this for a living."
"Call it post-country, alt-country, or polka, I don't care. If you want to put it on the radio, you can call it what you like."
“If you don’t have a good time tonight, your good time thing is broke .’’
"Everybody had different tastes in music," he recalls. "Classical, theater, Motown, The Doors, Jimi Hendrix – and I loved it all."
"I'm not trying to fit into a mold," "I don't have a 'look' – I don't wear my shirt tucked in, and I don't wear shoes very much. I just want to make my music, and if it flies, it flies. And I'm not worried about making the establishment happy with me for doing."
A classic novel is what Pat Green wants to keep him company. “The one book I’d have to have on the island is Catcher In The Rye. It’s so provocative.” ~Pat on being stranded on an island.
"I’m dedicated every night when I go up to do a show," I’m just really about the people having a good time!"
"I’m a fairly whimsical, positive person." "I’m writing songs for the fans and for myself."
"Do your own thing, but don’t judge."
When a fan recently approched him in a hotel and asked, " Are you Cory Morrow" Pat replied with, " Yes."
"I appreciate any attention that would bring listeners to our music"
Pat Green in his crumpled-up cowboy best, wanted to know, "Where' my cigarette?"just before he went on to make sure that the very first image the L.A. area had of him was smoking and drinking.
What Willie Nelson song inspired you the most? "I've got to go with Willie Nelson's Greatest Hits myself."
"I love making an impact with people.My band I worked on this album together in the studio with the simple thought in mind that we wanted to make music people would remember. Like those classic albums by Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, or the Eagles that you'd never see for sale in a used record store, because everyone holds on to them. That's the kind of music we want to make, and I feel we've done that this time around."
"See where I hold my finger up to get people to sing along? I stole that from Willie."
"Diversity is what brings us the marrow of life."
"Nothing sells better than the truth, and the truth always seems better than something made up."
"Here I was, playing for the biggest crowd of my life and my best friend had just told me we were going to be parents. I felt like the luckiest guy in the world."
” If I could give my child anything, it would be ambition and pride."
"It’s more than a belief, or saving the world, it’s more than all that. It’s the soundtrack to your life. It’s an expression. What you listen to is an expression of who you are. Music can be taken on so many different levels, and I think people don’t know how much music they truly love until they listen to it. "
"Country Music is in one spot, I’m in another."
“I’m so tired of country music being pretty! I’m so tired of country music being skinny!”
"Music is as much about where it's from as the people that write it,"
"This is real stuff I think everyone can benefit from. And certainly after listening to the radio you could think somebody would benefit from a change in the country music scene."
"You can definitely look at my personality and figure without much uncertainty that I share a lot of the same mindset with fans and the fans of this music. In that way it makes it easier for me to communicate with them. And that's my favorite thing in the world to do.”
"I'm not in this for fame, celebrity or money. None of that stuff is real. I'm in this because I love what I do. I love it beyond any shadow of a doubt."
"I've got a long way to go."
"Running around with guys like Willie Nelson and Jerry Jeff Walker and getting to know their personalities and getting to know them personally, it is like a new fascination I get to have in this business that I really cherish."
"I have found that in California people are really cool and they have to act cool. They will holler, but they are still cool about it," he said. "The northeast is a lot like home, they are really loud, boisterous people. The Midwest is kind of a mix of things."
"But this says to me that this music has a chance to go out there and bring the same kind of attention and numbers in other states and other corners of the world."
"The songs that those people sang were just timeless. I mean, with radio right now, are people going to look back 20 years from now and go, 'Who's Your Daddy' was the greatest song they ever heard?"
"Just goes to show that even when you think you have it all figured out, life serves up the most relentless scoop of unpredictable joy my heart has ever witnessed as if to say "just wait theres more". ~Pat on the birth
of his baby.
"I'm just so proud to live in Austin, Texas where people care.”~Pat on the Harvest for Hunger Concert.
"If you're honest with yourself, you won't marry the wrong person, you won't let the wrong person pressure you into getting married. It's everything. It's honesty."
"I don't think a band is worth its salt without some departure from what it did last time.
It's like anything in life: You've got to go for some growth."
"[This has] been the best year of my life. I may be the only 'new artist' with eight records.~Pat @ the Country Radio Seminar's New Faces Show Friday (March 5)
"I'm just getting a kick out of playing in the place where they
played the Super Bowl."~Pat @ the Houston Rodeo
"You can definitely look at my personality and figure without much uncertainty that I share a lot of the same mindset with fans and the fans of this music. In that way it makes it easier for me to communicate with them. And that's my favorite thing in the world to do.”
"The band is successful whether or not we have awards heaped upon us. Now the job is to move forward. I just want to keep being proud of what I'm doing."
"My dad asked me the other day what's it like to get up there and sing in front of all those people and have them sing the words back to you, and the only way I could put it is, it's exactly as cool as you think it is."
"I don't care what mood I'm in, 30 seconds after I walk on stage, any crowd, any size, anywhere, nothing exists but that moment."
"There's no doubt about it, I'm Texas music as much as Pearl Jam was Seattle grunge."
"It's almost like not even gambling when you're in Vegas, it's almost like breathing.I mean, it's just what you do. And in Vegas, do like the Vegans... or something."
"To those out there that I have lost in my efforts. I will miss you and hope that someday I will put out a record that touches you. But, I offer no apologies and I have no regrets. " ~Pat Green 11/22/04
"Ain't none of y'all going to work tomorrow. I'll go by and tell them you're not going to be there."
-Pat reassuring a crowd in Times Square
"I don't think I have a choice, I don't know what else to do. If I lost my voice, I'd still be a writer. I never had the notion that I had another way to go."
"You all ain't going to school or work tomorrow...party!! Drink up boys and girls!" Pat Green at University of Missouri
"I think if anyone wants to identify me with someone they really appreciate, I'm down with it. This whole thing is about association. Whether it's a feeling, another time in your life, all I want to be is part of the soundtrack."
"I'm only 30 so there's still lots of time for me to make plenty of mistakes. I say I'm 30 to keep my sanity, but I'm actually 32, so I guess I'm a liar too, and I've got plenty of time to tell more of them, too."