Country And Western Music Quotes

#1. Skiffle was blues featuring a washboard and acoustic instruments. It encompassed blues, with elements of folk, jazz, and, at times, American country-and-western music.

Van Morrison

#2. [Europe has] this tradition of self revelation in popular music. We have it here - it's called Country Western Music ... I think that's where the deeper and more complex subjects are treated.

Leonard Cohen

#3. I think the only music I didn't listen to was country and western, and that holds to this day.

David Bowie

#4. People are going to wake up to this great reservoir of music we've created in America - cakewalks, one-steps, boogie-woogie, country and western. I had a bit to do with one of those traditions.

Johnny Otis

#5. Trance had become a dirty word. Thanks to Ian Van Dahl, Lasgo, Flip 'N' Fill and DJ Sammy, a generation of kids has grown up thinking trance is the shittiest music since country and western.

Paul Van Dyk

#6. [W]hen we speak about people based on what we think, feel, or hope rather than on what we observe or experience, we deprive them of their humanity. We have replaced what they are, in all their fluid vitality, with our own crystallised ideas, opinions, and beliefs.

Steve Hagen

#7. Time is an abstraction of eternity. A glimpse, for mortals, of what could be if we spend ours wisely in life.

Dean Cavanagh

#8. I'm not a one-stop music shop with jazz improv in aisle 3 and country and western in aisle 4. I have a fairly focused and established kind of melody and approach, so people know what they're getting into when they go into business with me.

Charlie Clouser

#9. I'm not crazy about country-western music. But the lyrics are good.

Alice Cooper

#10. They had never felt slavery; and, when it was too late, they were convinced of its reality. When

Harriet Jacobs

#11. One thing is clear, the president of North Vietnam is not a fanatic. He is a very strong and determined man, but capable of listening, something that is very rare in a person of his position.

Martin Niemoller

#12. I'm a big fan of gospel music, and you cannot be a fan of rock and roll, you cannot be a fan of country western music, and you can't really be a fan of jazz without listening to a lot of music that's religious.

Penn Jillette

#13. Sometimes I lie awake at night and think about that little red-haired girl ... I don't ever want to forget her face, but if I don't forget her face, I'll go crazy ... How can I remember the face I can't forget? Suddenly I'm writing country western music!

Charles M. Schulz

#14. Careful listening to current country and western and rock music with the help of an interpreter for coded phrases shows that young people are hearing a constant stream of messages about getting high, feeling good, going on trips, and using drugs of all kinds with all methods.

Virgil Miller Newton

#15. Country and western is the music of the devil. That's the real truth of the matter. My late Mother, bless her, loved country and western. God, I couldn't handle it.

Rick Wakeman

#16. I listen to a lot of really old western and country music. There's a lot of cool stuff in there ... all the heartbreak of the country darkness.

Theophilus London

#17. I grew up in Oakland and Berkeley, California.

G-Eazy

#18. In education, parody is obsolete.

Alfie Kohn

#19. It is never easy to win but it is a lot easier to win when you play well. The key is winning golf tournaments when you are not playing so well. Managing your game is something that I feel that I am still learning to do.

Rory McIlroy

#20. There's only two kinds of music I don't like ... Country and Western.

Bobby Heenan

#21. The foolishness of faith is the winning ticket in life

David Oyedepo

#22. Maybe the strongest fighters are the nurturers because they're connected to something deep in their core, they've got something to fight for, they've got something worth saving. Granddad

Cecelia Ahern