Quotes by Drew Shirley taken from interviews, concerts, conversations, DVD's, & podcasts. We are constantly adding more quotes to these pages. Check back often!
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FUNNY QUOTES
"I'm so hahhy."
"All of us are married, and three of us have kids-- not to each other."
"No. Yes! That was a joke."
"We've wandered around, lost backstage looking for the stage doors [so often] that they actually started putting up these arrows and sheets of paper with arrows on them."
"You can't trust anyone over 30... I don't trust myself."
"I was surfing the pillow."
"Sorry, I'm awesome"
"Bring out the dwarf!"
"College was a huge time of learning, and the classes were alright too!"
"I like to made weird noises."
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GOD/CHRISTIANITY/FAITH QUOTES
"My life is going to be so short. The Bible says we're like grass: we grow, then we're done. The most important thing in the whole world is to love God and to love others. That is the most important commandment that all the others hang on."
"Alot of times I'm bound to my thoughts, my schedule, and the burdens I put on myself-- things I have to do today. When I stop, take a deep breath, and realize there is no feeling on me unless I put it there, I find that freedom to pray and ask God to carry the burdens. The Bible says to 'cast your cares on Him.' When I catch a moment of freedom, I'm happy with whatever I'm doing, whether it's playing music or chewing a peice of Juicy Fruit gum."
"Going through struggles for the sake of Christ is, in the Bible, said to be greater than gold. That your faith would be refined to that. It actually says to be glad and to rejoice about your sufferings in the name of Christ. And like Jon was saying, that's a beautiful, hard thing, but it's richer than gold."
“Relationships are the most important thing. That's where the love of God is displayed, that's where we live out our faith and the fruit grows."
"Playing music in the name of the creator...that's the highest calling to excellence any musician could have. I’m not the greatest...but I serve the One who is."
"My high school and college years were the time when I began deepening my understanding of what it means to follow Jesus. Jesus is all about who I am and not just what I do."
“If anything I do is good, I thank Jesus for He has made all the difference in my life."
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DEEP/INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES
"When I was trying to figure out what I wanted to do in my life, my dad gave me this advice: "You'd better do something that makes you happy, because you're going to do it for a long time." I think success is to please God and enjoy the work no matter how much you make or don't make or how big of a job you think you have or don't have. Even if I were a farmer in the middle of nowhere, if I enjoyed doing it, that would be success."
"I'm passionate about children's issues. We went to South Africa and worked with children who had been orphaned by AIDS. Children are always the victims. After South Africa, we decided that was something close to our hearts. And I went to Thailand and met some people who were working with girls who were caught in human trafficking. None of them would ever choose to be in such a horrible place. None of them would ever choose to be born into such a horrible thing. Kids are also being trained to fight eachother in Sudan, Africa. Sometimes I'm just overwhelmed with world issues. It's a crazy world we live in."
"My younger brother has Down syndrome, so I've always had a sensitivity to handicapped kids.
"What we want to do is bring hope wherever we can, whether it be with Habitat for Humanity, like our last tour, or Write Love on Her Arms, here. The message of hope is the same." "
"Think about the future. There are so many more opportunities and things coming up in your life, that you don't want to screw up now by getting on the wrong path. It's like your jumping on a subway that's headed the wrong direction. You go that way and it's not as easy to find your way back."
Think about where you want to be in five or ten years. You are making decisions right now that will either take you in that direction or not take you in that direction."
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MUSIC QUOTES
"We are Christians by our faith, but maybe not by our genre of music. We are Christians in a band, but we don't want to play music only for Christians. We want anyone and everyone to listen — just like how we grew up listening to Led Zeppelin or the Police or Miles Davis or Stevie Wonder. They've all got things to say that we can learn from."
"We believe in something bigger than just our songs. We always saw ourselves as a band for thinking people who are interested in challenging questions."
"We ask a lot of questions — some we found answers for and others we're still looking for along the way. We just hope there's an open door for people to enjoy the music we make.”
(Talking about Shadow Proves the Sunshine) "That was a tricky one just because of how much the song meant to us. At least for me...it met so much it was like man I really want this to be...the music and the arrangement to really fit the powerful lyrics and the things that are behind the song. Originally I was like 'I don't want to play guitar on this song' because I didn't want to screw it up. I just wanted to opt out. But we struggled it, we wrestled it. And it's sometimes a fight, sometimes it's a process where it starts one way then takes a turn then takes another turn then you end up somewhere you end up somewhere you didn't even realize you were going to go."
(On singing in Needle and Haystack Life) "This is my singing debut. It feels pretty good, ya' know? We have a podcast where I tried out for Canadian Idol...sort of a joke. Now, this is much different."
"As a band, we live and breathe on the road. That's kind of what sells the music, to be honest. We know bands that make a studio record and leave it to people to get it or not get it. We find that if you connect with than fans in concert they're a fan for life. We have a solid fan base, There are people who believe in what we're doing along with us. It's a connection thing more than anything for us. We have to get out there and play for them."
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BAND QUOTES
"We really stick with each other through thick and thin."
(on Switchfoot) "I liked the band before I started playing in it."
"I count these guys closer than my own brothers."
"Anytime you can travel, play music and go surfing, that's the best job in the world."
"Jon is releasing four EPs which are great, phenomenal, solo songs that you guys should check out."
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FANS/CONCERTS/TOUR QUOTES
"We have a family out here on the road with eachother. We're a very band of brothers type of group."
"We want to meet people afterward, and we want to connect with our fans. We really thank them for supporting us. Because you know you're a real band when you go out and play shows and people come to see you. These days people don't buy music, but if they put their money down for a ticket, you know they're in. And this cause, To Write Love on Her Arms, is massive and important. Bring a friend to the show. Love is a movement."
(On FOTF) "We just wanted something exclusive for the people who are like our core fans."
(On message boards) "I'm reading the threads, and I come in like a stealth bomber, but I don't post a lot. But I do get in there and read it and check out what's going on."
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LOVE/FAMILY QUOTES
"My family is something I'm most passionate about. Your family is your legacy. How my daughter goes on to live and the family she ends up raising will carry on a lot farther than the music we play. Alot of people place all the importance on the music, but that's just what I do. If my wife said, 'I can't handle you touring anymore,' that would be it for me."
(On marriage and being away from home) "I wouldn't be able to be here if Jenna wasn't - if my wife - wasn't okay with it. Do you know what I mean? Because if she was like "I can't do this", then I would be like "I can't do this."
"Being away from home is the hardest thing."
"Our families believe in what we are doing. It's not like they are home complaining, they are behind us 100%."
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MISCELLANEOUS QUOTES
"I love going to the beach. I love the outdoors. If I worked under flourscent lights, I would go crazy. Fortunately, in my line of work, I don't have to. I like to read. I like vintage cars and going to thrift stores. It's like a hobby even if I don't need anything. Who knows? I might have a Lionel Richie jacket from a thift store."
(On playing sports) "I run when someone's chasing me."
"I might wear white pants."
“We did this thing one time and there were all these guitar players at it, at the Gibson Amphitheatre. I'm standing backstage alongside Slash from Guns 'N Roses, Robben Ford, a phenomenal jazz/blues musician, Steve Lukather, who played on Michael Jackson albums and was in Toto. I'm just, like, "What am I doing here? I'm just a kid." But it was fun we got to play with all those guys."
"I don't see myself as much as a guitarist as I do just a musician. So my influences are quite varied. I've always liked Led Zeppelin. Jimmy Page has been a great influence on me. And Miles Davis and even Michael Jackson. I listened to the older stuff like "Thriller" and "Beat It." I also very much like a lot of new music - Band of Horses, My Morning Jacket, even Death Cab for Cutie."
"I dreamed I was at a Kid Rock concert in Birmingham, Alabama. He started playing and Lynard Skynard was there and we got on the roof and the cops were saying they were going to arrest us for being on the roof. And I was saying, Why? They made us jump off the roof. Actually, now that I think about it, that was real."
"Guitar Hero is awesome!"
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