Country Music Singer Quotes

#1. There's a new hit rock group or singer every five minutes, but with country music, you have one hit and those people love you forever.

Kenny Rogers

#2. Having hits buries a singer in the past. A lot of singers hide in the past because it's safer back there. If you've ever heard today's country music, you'll know what I'm talking about.

Bob Dylan

#3. Kitty Wells was the first and only Queen of Country Music, no matter what they call the rest of us. She was a great inspiration to me as well as every other female singer in the country music business. In addition to being a wonderful asset to country music, she was a wonderful woman.

Dolly Parton

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

Mindy McCready

#5. I was a folk singer who became totally over the edge with country music. I found my voice and style working with Gram Parsons. I learned how to listen to George Jones records and the Louvin Brothers.

Emmylou Harris

#6. You are being programmed all day, every day. You can't stop it, but you can determine if the programming is positive or negative.

Randy Gage

#7. I always know I'm a country singer, and regardless of where I've fallen into different places with my music, I know that, really, I'm a country singer.

Ronnie Milsap

#8. East Asia confirms the superior capacity of industrial capitalism in raising the material standard of living of large masses of people.

Peter L. Berger

#9. The concept of free competition enforced by law is a grotesque contradiction in terms.

Ayn Rand

#10. He who remains unmarried impairs the divine image.

Rabbi Akiva

#11. I didn't get into music to become a blues musician, or a country musician. I'm a singer-songwriter. In my book that means I get to do whatever I want.

Justin Townes Earle

#12. I wondered how people would take me being a country music singer. I thought about deviating from that and singing other things. But ... it doesn't really make sense for me to try to be something that I'm not.

Carrie Underwood

#13. Today is a sad day in Country music. We have lost another piece of history. George Jones was not only a good singer, but was a good friend. He will be missed by many.

Hank Williams Jr.

#14. The biggest question I have is if you're a rock singer or a rock 'n' roll band, or if you're a pop singer ... if you've made your way in another genre of music and now you want to make a country record, why? That's my question. Why?

Joe Nichols

#15. I do think it's probably true to a certain extent that you tend to sing music that fits your voice. If you're Lou Reed, you're unlikely to become a country singer.

Teddy Thompson

#16. If Cosmic Ordering isn't for you, shape yourself so it is.

Stephen Richards

#17. I'm a country singer. I love all kinds of music, but country is where my loyalty lies. That's just me and what I do, and I'm not going to change it.

George Strait

#18. If I wanted to be a pop singer, I would have done that 20 years ago. I love country music.

Chely Wright

#19. Those of us who are writers and have to perform to communities that aren't used to coming to book events, I would recommend taking some theater.

Sandra Cisneros

#20. Im truly the best singer in the country. My kind of pop music is the best in Spain.

Marta Sanchez

#21. Undeniably, I'm a country singer; I'm a country songwriter. But I feel like I make country music for people who like country music and for people who don't.

Kacey Musgraves

#22. I dropped the 'Bundy' with my country music because I wanted it to be two separate things: There's me as a songwriter and a country singer, and there's me as a Broadway performer.

Laura Bell Bundy

#23. I was captured by the songs as much as the singer. They grabbed my heart. The reality of Country Music moved me. Even when I was a kid, I liked the sad songs ... songs that talked about true life. I recognized this music as a simple plea. It beckoned me.

Harlan Howard

#24. I like country music. I'm not going to lie. I'm from the South, and I grew up on it. My dad was a country singer-songwriter, so it's in my blood, and I love it.

Kim Dickens

#25. I believe if you ask any singer who was the greatest country music singer of all time, they would say 'George Jones'. He was without question and by far the BEST! I first met and worked with him when I was 13 years old; I am so very grateful that he was my friend.

Barbara Mandrell

#26. The fantasies inspired by TB in the last century, by cancer now, are responses to a disease thought to be intractable and capricious
that is, a disease not understood
in an era in which medicine's central premise is that all diseases can be cured.

Susan Sontag