Top 70 Gabby Barrett Quotes

There were a lot of challenges I had to face on ‘American Idol‘ that helped me grow in a few different ways that I’ll take forever with my career.

I can sing as low as Toni Braxton and as high as Mariah Carey.

I think you get a lot of influence from what your parents play around you. So I always loved country, R&B and rock.

We just love spending time with family.

My fans have been amazing.

I try everyday to give it my 110%.

Of course, growing up, you listen to your favorite people on the radio and you want to have an album of your own and you want to have number one songs that people know and can sing back to you when you have shows.

To be given a chance to be in the finals was a dream come true, and I will forever be thankful to the whole ‘American Idol’ crew.

I Hope‘ is the fourth song that I’d ever written in Nashville. I didn’t know that it was as special as it was.

I’m always looking to find things that are different in country music.

There is nothing like hearing people sing your single back to you during a show.

It was actually really hard to get a record deal after ‘American Idol.’

I’m not somebody who can tell if the song is good enough to be pushed until I hear what it sounds like after all the bells and whistles are put on it.

I think ‘Idol’ has been such a wonderful platform for me to step onto, and be a part of, and they’ve always treated me very kindly, and have been very supportive of my music and myself. I will always keep that as a highlight in my career for the rest of my life.

I value the Lord more than I value my career, because at the end of the day, when we die, we face him. We’re going to wish that we did more on this earth for him. And so I want to make sure that I’m doing everything to glorify him.

From 11 to 17, I just toured my butt off with my dad and my sister. We hit the road and I was singing all kinds of different songs and different types of genres. But I knew from an early age what I wanted my sound to be, which was country on bass, and I wanted to be a country artist.

When I was about 11 years old, I wrote a song with my dad. Then in high school I started more writing.

That’s how I want to be with stuff: I always want to be in country music, first and foremost, forever.

I think acoustic performances and full, live performances are always cool in different ways.

I think ‘American Idol’ has prepared me for anything.

For marriage, yes, people always had their opinions of, ‘Oh, you’re too young,’ because it’s become a stereotype, for some reason, for people to get married later in their 20s.

I just think falling in love and being married completely changes your life in so many ways.

Nobody has done Mariah Carey whistle-tone notes in country music that I’ve heard of, and if you’re capable of doing it, you might as well add it in.

I hold the Lord so high in my life, to really being number one before anything else.

Full live performances are always my favorites, and I think a lot of people’s favorites too, just because you can feel the energy off the crowd and there’s so much more interaction, and just everything overall is just like very hype.

Just stick to what you feel you sing best at, no matter what it is.

I wasn’t born with nerves. You have to take yourself out of the equation and think about everyone else – you’re the entertainer.

There are other artists out there, in which some like to write and others like to perform and others like to talk, but I really just love to perform and entertain.

I was always a homebody who wanted to be somebody’s wife.

The Lord always comes first in our lives, and then everything else comes second. And so with my music and with my platform, I have places to talk about the Lord and His goodness.

I’m very fortunate that R&B was where I first kind of learned my root in singing. I was able to do more with my voice and find it at an early age and then transform that into country as well.

Things that are like overnight success things don’t last long, and that’s not something I wanted.

I always wanted to be somebody that kind of stuck out on the stage.

In terms of brands, Jovani is one of my favorites, and also Zhivago, and I love Steve Madden shoes.

Music is just something I find very fun, the way other people find going to the mall is fun – which I do, too, trust me. I love shopping.

I am so unbelievably excited to share ‘I Hope’ with the world. After my ‘Idol’ chapter closed, I knew this song was the one I wanted to frame myself with.

I think being married and in love and all of that changed how I write songs and what I want to sing about and the type of songs that I like.

From a very young age, my main thing was always entertaining.

A few people have asked me about the women agenda on country radio. I can only speak for myself on this, and all I have to say is that I’m very grateful, and thankful, that country radio has been so automatically accepting, and supportive, of me and my music.

I was raised listening to so many wonderful females with great music.

Actually, zero labels were jumping toward me, and I couldn’t get to anybody. Nobody was paying any attention. And I was like, ‘OK, I’m going to put my nose to the ground and really work on writing and creating some good songs that people could gravitate to.’

There’s a lot to learn in Nashville. This town is just filled with amazing, talented, smart people, so it’s been an honor to be part of that community and to have everyone open their arms wide to me.

When people ask me about Cade, how he‘s doing or how we’re doing, I always end up saying, ‘Oh he’s great, he’s a keeper, he’s a good one.’

I’m not the kind of person who walks in a room and is just like, ‘Hi everybody!’ I’m more somebody who is quiet and who isn’t good at starting conversations.

I think it’s really cool when any of your songs play on the radio for the first time.

I really respected women that could sing their tails off and entertain really well, so I wanted to get that across before I brought any of my own music into it.

Something a lot of people don’t know about me is I sucked my thumb until I was in like eighth grade. It’s cause, when I was a baby, I sucked my thumb and I guess my mom and dad never weaned me off of that, because they thought it was cute. And then it’s like an addiction. That’s your security blanket.

I love romance and talking about love, and I think it’s one of the greatest things you can talk about.

Being on the Hot 100 is absolutely amazing.

I naturally gravitated first to R&B and pop: Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston, Aretha Franklin, Patti LaBelle.

I wasn’t in any super duper serious relationships growing up, but yeah, I know what that heartbreak feels like.

I completely understand why labels would be a little bit hesitant to sign somebody coming off of a television show, in their first glance.

Being a female, I know what it’s like to go through a bad break up and not get to say what you really want to.

If you’re going to compare me to somebody and it’s going to be Carrie Underwood, I will absolutely take that as a compliment.

Country is and always will be my heart, but I don’t have a problem with it spilling over into pop if it wants to.

Country radio has been so supportive.

Sometimes you don’t really know what you’re going to write about. I mean, there’s times where you get into a writing room and it’s a complete flop. And then there’s times where you get to a writing room and you’re like, ‘Oh, I’m just on a roll.’

The first time I ever had a song play on a legit radio station, I think I was about 13. It was a song of mine that I had written called ‘Young Blood.’

Pinterest is awesome. You can get so many wonderful ideas.

I always try to write from a genuine standpoint.

I like to be 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.

So, Shane & Shane are my favorite Christian artists out there.

I was doing my own shows when I was 11 years old.

I feel like I am a true entertainer and performer.

There were so many emotions on ‘Idol’ with nervousness and pressure, but in good ways.

Not every single person is bad, not all guys are bad, and I found my good one.

I would say when I was 9 or 10 I started doing gospel choir, and I was with them for about two years.

My dad is my rock. Every single penny he earns goes into my dream.

I wanted to put in the time and the work, because eventually it pays off in a good way.

I love Marty Robbins, I love Glen Campbell, Loretta Lynn, Patsy Cline.