In bluegrass, there's a lot of joke-telling and a lot of banter between bandmates. It's like improv or watching the 'Carol Burnett Show.'

Ashley McBryde

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I have a soul the devil wouldn't buy.

Love songs are all about how I'll move a mountain for you and I'll never hurt your feelings. I've never been given a mountain, and if you love me, you should hurt my feelings sometimes. If I walk outside looking ugly in that shirt, you don't love me if you don't hurt my feelings a little bit and tell me.

walk me you love

That's what you do with the worst day ever: you flip it on its back.

day back you worst

I love to think on my feet, and I love to be able to feel from a close proximity how things are going.

feel think feet love

I've heard that the true love of country music is alive and well. That gives me so much hope and so much happiness.

true-love music happiness love

I was kind of always the underdog.

always underdog kind

My hair turned gray when I was 24.

turned gray hair

I was four days old when I went to my first bluegrass festival.

days old first four

I have a big love for jazz music. The only thing I hated about singing with a jazz band was having to wear a gown to everything.

wear singing music love

The thing about bikers and truckers is they're just regular folks, and that's definitely my demographic.

definitely thing about just

Your fame and your success moves much more rapidly than your ability to fund it.

your ability fame success

Sometimes choosing to leave a mistake on a track is way cooler than going back and nailing it.

back mistake sometimes way

Being called a new artist doesn't bother me at all.

new being me artist

There's a few people that I write with that we don't stop until one of us cries.

us write stop people

Your love is your love. It doesn't matter whether you're 18 or 68; there can still be someone that makes you feel that way.

feel you love-is love

Growing up, the Opry was my Hollywood.

up growing growing-up hollywood

I get recognized more for my tattoos than my face.

tattoos face more get

Every 'no' I ever received was an inch closer to a 'yes.'

closer ever yes every

If you can sing to a room of 60 people who don't give a damn, then if, someday, you're playing to people who really want to hear your music, that's not hard.

your you music people

Everything I ever needed came out of a radio and a dashboard. My Mount Rushmore of what was cool came out of a radio - Trisha Yearwood, Patty Loveless, Mark Chesnutt.

out everything cool radio