10 Questions – The Best Quotes Of 2020

This week, we look back at 2020 with the best answers to some of our best questions.

Amy Brown
iHeart Media
Co-host of "The Bobby Bones Show" and host of "Women Of iHeart Country" and "4 Things With Amy Brown" (11/30/20)

"One of the biggest compliments I can get from a listener is when they say, ‘I feel like we’ve been friends forever.’ That’s super special to me because sometimes we feel as though we’re sitting in a room just talking into these microphones. We don’t know if anybody’s connecting to what we’re saying … We just try to show up as authentically as possible and hope that that connects with one listener at a time."

Laurie DeYoung
WPOC/Baltimore morning host (10/12/20)

"When this [pandemic] first happened, right as things were starting to close in the state of Maryland, I said to my husband, ‘These are the kinds of moments I’m born for.’ I’m your person. I want to be here. I want to talk to our listeners because it was such a scary time. I didn’t want to be home and have technical problems, or not be able to have the phone to be able to make those connections with listeners. So I was really excited when I discovered that they were going to let us still come in [to the studios]."

Stacy Blythe
Big Loud Records
VP/Promotion (10/5/20)

"Big Loud is really a band of misfits … Our culture is something that I am so proud of. We are all so, so different, and everyone brings something different to the table creatively. But I have never worked in a place where everybody gets along so seamlessly as Big Loud, and that includes our artists, [who] are just as much family to each other and to us as the employees of the label. As far as the artists that we’re signing, we’re always looking for different."

Lee Brice
Curb Records artist (9/28/20)

"There’s been some really tough times [during this pandemic]. There’s no money coming in, so there’s no way to even pay people that you’ve been working with for 15 years. My band, they’re all really smart. They've been good with money and so we’re all okay right now. But it is scary for anybody out there that they can’t work because of this."

Jameson Rodgers
River House Artists/Columbia Nashville artist (9/21/20)

"In the music industry, it takes so long to see the fruits of your labor ... so it takes the work ethic of an athlete. You can’t get discouraged when you have a couple games without a hit."

Chrissy Metz
Actress and EMI Records Nashville artist (8/31/20)

"I’ve been listening to Country forever, and grew up with Hank Williams and the Charlie Daniels Band and Charley Pride -- old school guys that my parents would listen to. It was just always the kind of music that I enjoyed. When you hear the verse and you want to see what the turn is at the chorus and how the song unfolds, it was always so exciting. Country music, in particular, is like the storytelling genre, and I love telling stories."

Gabby Barrett
Warner Music Nashville artist (5/25/20)

"I like to be [a writer] on most of my songs. I think being on your songs makes it all the more special in a way. Especially for me, just knowing that I’m releasing something that I was really a part of and dug in the dirt with. I remember Dolly Parton would always say the most genuine songs are the ones that ended up lasting the longest. And so, I just think it’s really important to me, as a songwriter, to really dive into my music, especially coming out of the gate right now with my first songs going to radio. It’s important to be on those songs, and it makes me feel really good knowing that I wrote them and people are liking them."

Dustin Lynch
Broken Bow Records artist (3/9/20)

"[Radio has been] the absolute biggest catalyst to our career and forever will be kind of our foundation of how our music started and spread to the masses and become a part of people's lives, and the reason they want to come party with us. It's changed all of our lives, and our families’ lives as well. The ride that we've already been on has been an amazing thing, and I feel like, in a crazy way, honestly, we're just getting started."

Cody Alan
CMT and Premiere Networks host (1/6/20)

"My roots are deep in radio … I’m all about doing radio forever. I still get chills hearing a great station top of the hour i.d. We need to remember in this current age to keep that magic alive. Radio shouldn't sound like a jukebox or a streaming service. It's still show biz! It was my dream growing up as a kid in South Carolina and I still love it every day."