People ask you all the time, 'Why do you do this? Why don't you quit, man, take your money and go home?' I just do it because I love making music. Ronnie Dunn More Quotes by Ronnie Dunn More Quotes From Ronnie Dunn I'm from Oklahoma. I mean, you can't have good hair in Oklahoma. That's why everyone wears hats. The wind just messes it up. Ronnie Dunn oklahomahairmean Country fans are the most loyal in the world. Ronnie Dunn fanscountryworld The music has to drive you. That's just it. You follow it. You follow the songs. Ronnie Dunn song I was freaking out when Brooks & Dunn were breaking up. I thought 'We play a ton of rodeos, and I thought this was such a cowboy deal, and I don't wear a hat. They might not think I'm a cowboy. That might sound ridiculous to a lot of people, but apparently, it meant something to me. I wound up with a cowboy tattoo from my elbow to my wrist. Ronnie Dunn cowboytattoothinking I went to 13 schools in 12 years. We moved all over the place. Music was the only thing that I could get behind... I wasn't that good at socializing. I'm still not. Ronnie Dunn behindsyearsschool I grew up in trailer houses in New Mexico, Arkansas, Texas and Oklahoma. Ronnie Dunn oklahomatexashouse I don't have any hobbies. Music is my hobby. Ronnie Dunn hobbiesmusic-is I don't even know how to spell 'legacy! Ronnie Dunn know-howlegacyknows I do have to step out and take time to let people know that I'm Ronnie Dunn and not Brooks and Dunn. Ronnie Dunn brooksstepspeople My own grandmother went to great lengths to make sure I knew simple things like how and when to open the door for a lady. And the best thing my mama taught me was to pray. Ronnie Dunn grandmothersimpledoors I'm very much involved in art. I started buying art a few years ago and really like the work of T.C. Cannon, who is a native American artist. Then I was introduced to Soviet-era Russian impressionism and started collecting that, especially Gely Korzhev. Ronnie Dunn native-americanyearsart When we look at cities across the country, Cincinnati, for example, where they have come under DOJ guidance with a consent decree, we see that, over time, there has been a transformation in the relationship between the police and the community, where now they have a partnership and true collaborative policing, co-policing, to make the community safer overall. Ronnie Dunn communitycitiescountry What a fine line there is between artistry and insanity. There's no formula for it, and I think a lot of people when they're around you - even those closest to you - when you're in that whirl of creativity and you're grabbing those things out of the air, there's no rational process. Ronnie Dunn creativityairthinking I pay less attention to my hair then probably anybody that I know. I get out of the shower, I towel dry it. I, like, blow it off and then I just run my hands through it and away we go. It's just what it is. Ronnie Dunn blowhairrunning I get around OK with a toolbox. As a kid, I picked up skills following my dad through the oil fields of Oklahoma and West Texas. My wife Janine is hard to impress, but she does think it's cool when I fix things around the house. Ronnie Dunn dadkidsthinking I feel like I am campaigning door to door. You just can't step out of a band like Brooks & Dunn and assume that it is just going to be business as usual. You have to work it. It does feel like a campaign where you would have Obama, Romney, or Newt beating the bushes right now. That's what I'm having to do. Ronnie Dunn usualdoedoors I carry my own film guys with me now. People think that's a huge expense, but with technology like it is these days, it's not. You can film videos and everything with a Canon Mark II, and shoot a movie. They're doing it for next to nothing, by comparison. I can do ten videos for a project for the price of one mainstream video in the past. Ronnie Dunn technologypastthinking Sometimes, I work a little more from emotion than I do from rational thought. Ronnie Dunn emotionlittlessometimes My preference is 3,000, maybe 5,000-seat venues. Ronnie Dunn venuesseatspreference I'm not a Republican, and I'm not a Democrat. Ronnie Dunn democratrepublican
