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All I knew when I moved to Nashville was that I wanted to make music in whatever shape and form I could.

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Hunter Hayes
Age: 33
Born: 1991
Born: September 9
Guitarist
Multi-Instrumentalist
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Breaux Bridge
Louisiana
Hunter Easton Hayes
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Moved
Knew
Whatever
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Music
Wanted
Nashville

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I am grateful I got the chance to meet Stevie Wonder! He's like royalty to me and is one of my biggest inspirations.
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Anyone who tells you they're not nervous playing on the CMAs stage, I'm afraid they're not telling you the whole story.
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I've got some crazy, stupid big goals. I really wanna headline arenas. I wanna have such a big crew that we've got to have 20 or 30 buses on the road because that's how big the show we're putting on is.
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I've got a lot of dreams I want to achieve, and I hope someone can cheer me on as I'll cheer them on in their dreams.
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The rule of songwriting: say what you want to say, say it again, say it a different way, then say it again.
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Encore' was an experiment. 'Encore' was the second chance at a first impression. 'Encore' was not completely planned.
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I'm very shy and awkward. I think the best thing is to embrace it. It's about accepting who you are and what you want to become and knowing all that you've got to work with, whether it's good or bad. My music was the only place I could be me for the longest time.
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My mom makes the best Cajun stuff. I'm a big gumbo guy. I've lost a lot of my Louisiana accent, so now when I say 'gumbo,' I feel like someone who's never said the word before.
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I was addicted to playing music.
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My first instrument was an accordion. Growing up in Louisiana, my grandmother gave me an accordion because of our Cajun heritage.
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