Country Music Awards Quotes

#1. The Country Music Awards were held Wednesday night at Universal City. The best country songs are always about drinking and guns and love gone wrong. Next year they're giving Robert Blake the Lifetime Achievement Award.

Argus Hamilton

#2. You watch the country-music awards that they show on the television, and you see country music has reached about 1985. It's all huge processed drum sounds and chiming chorus guitars and programmed synths bobbling along in the background.

Andy Partridge

#3. Philosophers are in the habit of setting themselves before life and experience.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#4. I know how it feels to go into a studio to start a record, and eight weeks later it's finished. I know how an intense schedule feels.

Amy Grant

#5. When I was at school, you had to choose; there was a lot of pressure to assimilate. You were an Aussie, or you were one of 'the wogs' - which was everybody else. But I didn't want to be in either group, so I felt like an odd one out.

Jonathan LaPaglia

#6. Whilst some people inspire, others conspire!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#7. The greatest act of freeing happened when Jesus died in our place and paid our debt.

John Piper

#8. Most nonfiction writers have a definitiveness complex. They feel that they are under some obligation - to the subject, to their honor, to the gods of writing - to make their article the last word. It's a commendable impulse, but there is no last word.

William Zinsser

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

Loretta Lynn

#10. For years and years, Christians have been singing about their wandering hearts. Our hearts need to be recalibrated and realigned and reoriented by God.

Tullian Tchividjian

#11. Hal, if I tell thee a lie, spit in my face, call me horse.

William Shakespeare

#12. Bodybuilding has been my life; if it weren't for bodybuilding, I don't know what I'd be doing. I look at bodybuilding as who I am.

Tom Platz

#13. As a major country music fan, the CMA awards are my favorite!

Megan Alexander

#14. Our happiness is completely and utterly intertwined with other people: family and friends and neighbors and the woman you hardly notice who cleans your office. Happiness is not a noun or verb. It's a conjunction. Connective tissue.

Eric Weiner

#15. It's like an inner struggle for me, between saying I don't give a **** and trying to make it work. You want to do the right thing, but I'm sick of people thinking I'm difficult.

Julian Casablancas

#16. I've received many awards, but I'm most proud of the ones for my country's music.

Montserrat Caballe