Coy Bowles Quotes

The tour is like our bread and butter. You don’t really get to experience the band unless you see us live.

My father is a very skilled carpenter. He can do just about anything with his hands. He is very artistic with his carpentry.

If they keep playing us on country radio and we get to keep doing cool stuff like playing with Willie Nelson, that’s great.

I’ve really learned a lot from Zac Brown over the years. He is someone that I consider to be one of my best friends, and besides my parents, he has taught me more than anyone else. Zac is, by nature, a giving and understanding person.

I try to cross as many genres as possible with the same attitude. I want every song to be very clear.

One of my favorite guitar players and musicians is a guy named Jimmy Herring.

I grew up as an only child, so inherently, most of my life was centered around me. My parents taught me to play well with others and to share my toys, but I was still an only child who didn’t have to share my parent’s attention with siblings. As great as my childhood was, I always wanted brothers and sisters.

When I try to be funny, it always makes me more nervous that I’m trying too hard, and then my brain that already thinks too much jumps into hyper drive, and I light-speed start talking ‘Star Trek’ to someone who’s talking ‘Star Wars.’ Anyway, it doesn’t work out usually when I ‘try’ to be funny.

I love kids, and I think I would be a great dad. I had great parents, and my mother and father are my best friends, so I’d have good examples to lead from.

Writing children’s books all started out as a way for me to give back and make a difference.

We listen to so many different types of music, so it’s easy for us to play a different genre or style and it be true to what we do.

I don’t usually suggest going into something you cannot do, but sometimes you gotta jump in and land on your feet.

Pearl Jam’s ‘Alive’ is the reason I started to play music.

My dad has seen and done a lot. He comes from the hippie era where music and living life to the fullest is more important than stability and playing by the rules.

I try as hard as I can to push myself. I try to create as much as I can. I try to grow on a daily basis.

We never think about how many awards we’ve won. We just want to make the best music we can.

I made a promise to be as creative as I could, even outside of music.

I’ve never been much to believe that my Creator will judge me or anyone at their final days. I don’t really know if I believe in going to Heaven or Hell.

It’s kind of a Catch-22. The more successful you get, the less normal you get.

My mom used to cut out articles from the ‘Atlanta Journal Constitution’ when I was in high school. She would either give them to me to read or she would post them on the fridge. These articles would usually be stories of someone inventing something, breaking records, or achieving some kind of success.

God Bless my mother and father for all the hard work they’ve done for our family.

You don’t realize how beautiful an idea is until you do it with other people. There’s this really shimmery, awesome thing when you start finishing a song – where the song just starts writing itself.

My goal for children’s books is to have them become tableside or bedside classics. To me, it would be awesome to write a book that every kid would end up reading at some point in their life because influencing kids in a positive way at such a young age is really cool.

I’m so grateful to have been raised on love and to be so in love with my wife.

I got into writing short stories and blogs while on the road.

I firmly believe if you start something, you should finish it.

We can be whatever we want to be. We can be a country band if we need to be. We can be a rock band if we need to be.

Duane Allman might be my favorite guitar player ever. I’d say I’m influenced by the Allman Brothers more than any other band. When I taught guitar lessons for a living, the students that were interested in soloing had to learn the intro to ‘It’s Not My Cross to Bear’ first thing.

My dad is basically my best friend. I’m that dude’s spitting image and couldn’t be more proud of that. They just don’t come any better than my dad.

I’m a blues guy at heart, so silly music isn’t generally what I do. I’m a I’ll-cry-as-my-guitar-gently-weeps kind of guy.

I live a life of creating, sharing music with wonderful musicians that I love like family, and spreading a message through music that life is yours to live wide open, and do it your way with love.

Once you start getting into giving back, it gets addictive.

I love coming back home and seeing old friends and family. I would say it keeps me grounded.

We pride ourselves on being great songwriters.

I’m just grateful. I’m grateful for my family, my wife, and our health. I’m grateful to be in a band of brothers that I love so, so, so much. I’m grateful that this magical combination of dudes makes music that people like and moves them.

I’m grateful for being able to explore different avenues of my writing, whether it be music or stories, and it have an audience.

I can’t think of anything more important than a kid being sick and making them laugh and making that whole experience a little easier.

The ‘Will Powers’ story is like my life to a certain degree.

The recipe to our success is that you have a bunch of different guys who listen to a lot of different music.

If the people that love you are the people at your side on your last day, and there’s not a soul in that room that has any bad words to say about you, well, I’d say Heaven awaits you, my friend.

I can play in front of 30,000 people at Fenway and not be nervous at all. But I get really nervous in front of kids.

I like music that not only has a pop melody to it but is also deeply about something.

Life is short, so there is no reason why you shouldn’t live it to the fullest expression of yourself.

Carlos Sosa, the saxophone player for Zac Brown Band, and I worked up two songs for ‘When You’re Feeling Sick.’ They were a blast to work on. The songs are real upbeat and silly.