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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.

Hunter Hayes

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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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Different
Way

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A bass player has to think and play like a bass player. A drummer has to play and think like a drummer, and stay out of the way of the vocalist. The guitar player has to respect everybody else.
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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 first instrument was an accordion. Growing up in Louisiana, my grandmother gave me an accordion because of our Cajun heritage.
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I was addicted to playing music.
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Dream as big as you want because they come true everyday
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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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When I was in high school, I had binders with pictures of tour buses.
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I write for myself. I don't write because I have a record coming out. I write because I want to. I need to.
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As a new artist - I don't care who you talk to - I think everyone would agree, it's hard to get your expectations right.
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I am, by nature, a guitar player... I learned all of these other instruments around that, and around the theory that I built learning the guitar.
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Unfortunately, I'm more experienced than I care to admit on long-distance relationships. Just because that is my life. I travel because I love to. As a result, I have to sort of make it work when a relationship kind of comes into view.
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I don't even have a type, I don't think. My type is just whoever can get along with me.
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Yes, I did lock myself in my room for about two years and write some songs and things like that. But I don't feel like I missed out on a whole lot.
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I've always been shy, but I see that as a good thing because it kept me focused on music. When I was in seventh grade, I asked my parents for a mobile recording system for Christmas, and I got it. I didn't come out of my room for years after that. I'd get invited to the movies and I'd say, 'I'm gonna finish a couple of demos.'
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To be the name on somebody's shirt that they've made themselves in preparation for one of your shows - it doesn't get much cooler than that.
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I'm naturally shy, so the social media thing is new to me. I haven't really figured out how my voice sounds on social media, you know? I don't want to tweet everyday just for the sake of tweeting. I want to make sure whatever I do there is honest. Social media can very quickly get fake, and I don't want to be that guy.
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