Country Music Quotes

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Sometimes I am two people. Johnny is the nice one. Cash causes all the trouble. They fight.

I've always felt that blues, rock 'n' roll and country are just about a beat apart.

My favorite type of music to sing is a crossover between country and pop.

Country music is three chords and the truth.

I really like Alan Jackson, in Country Music. I think he's really very, very talented along with George Jones, and Merle Haggard, the same old favorites.

I was introduced to country music around a campfire on a farm.

I'm really proud to be a woman representing country music.

Funny how a melody sounds like a memory.

Country music is completely punk-rock. It's the original punk-rock.

When I first came to Nashville, people hardly gave country music any respect. We lived in old cars and dirty hotels, and we ate when we could.

When I think about country music, I think about America.

My first memories of music were country music and Ronnie Milsap. Where I grew up, it was what you listened to. And anything else, you were somewhat out of place.

I fell asleep watching the country music channel and woke up racist.

You've got to go down the road you naturally go down, and for me it was pop, folk country, just feel-good music. I suppose most of my songs are very up-tempo.

That's one wonderful thing about country music - it shifts, ebbs, and flows stylistically, unlike pop music.

Country music has always been about as close to R&B as you can possibly get. We're storytellers.

The truth of country music, the real stuff, will prevail ..... generation after generation.

I got country music in me.

I was the first woman ever named Entertainer of the Year in country music.

Country music is me, it's what I've grown up with, and it's what I do.

I love Johnny Cash but I don't love country music that much.

Me and my partner, Conway Twitty, cleaned up at the 1972 Country Music Association Awards.

You gotta *be* country music - you can't just sing it.

I never gave up on country music because I knew what I was doing was not that bad.

You seldom hear any young artists in country music.

I probably have the crappiest tattoo -- not only in country music -- but maybe the world.

Country music has always been the best shrink that 15 bucks can buy.

When you go to the Opry for a show or hear it on the radio, you get the whole circle of country music.

I've never turned my back on country music.

When I hear bluegrass today, I hear so many new sounds in it. It's almost like country music in a way.

Laurie Lewis' songs combine passion and sheer craft in a way you don't hear very often. Whatever country music is supposed to be, she's at the center of it.

When you're playing country music, you have to tell the truth.

Jimmy Dickens was the essence of country music and the heart of the Grand Ole Opry.

I not only listen to country music - I have a like for R&B music.

The poetry of country music will survive.

... there are a lot of shredders in country music - Redd Volkaert, Brent Mason, Dan Huff .. and guys like that

'Nashville' songs and country music have always been about storytelling and about the heart and confessionals. They're monologues.

Music is the great cheer-up in the language of all countries.

Country music originates with the colloquial, rural aspects of white America. It's really, truly, rural white America's blues.

It's just a sound, and a feeling that's in the music. And you either hear it and appreciate it, or you don't.

When I need a little advice about Saddam Hussein, I turn to country music.

The only country that hasn't liked my music is my own.

My fame came from my success as a country music singer.

[My parents] worked hard all week long, and the way they celebrated and rejoiced in life was by making music on weekends. And that music was Country Music.

Some say it's too country, some say it's too rock n' roll. But it's just good music if you can feel it in your soul.

I do love country music.

The passion for doing music, the passion that I have for going out and playing it live - my love for country music is back.

It's hard for a liberal to go on between Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh, because it's like doing country music after hip-hop. I mean, just, the audience doesn't go from one to the other.

I pretty much like all music except for country. I'm not a big fan of country.

So from Jazz, Blues, R&B, Soul, Classical and Country music, Hip Hop has introduced us to a little bit of everything.