Top 100 Quotes About Country Music

#1. The native music of North America, the original-roots music of this country, is also the underworld music of this country.

Robbie Robertson

#2. I've liked country music for forever. And Buck Owens is just one of many country guitarists I like. I think Buck's Sixties records are really progressive.

Buzz Osborne

#3. My wife grew up loving country music, so I always run songs by her whether I wrote it or if somebody pitched it to me.

Rodney Atkins

#4. I've been writing a lot of country music again. I've written some bluegrass material. I'm having a good time doing that.

Dan Fogelberg

#5. At 82, Nelson (who wrote the song "On the Road Again," among a thousand or more others) is the elder statesman of country music, a steadying and powerful voice in the industry and on environmental issues, and he's still on the road much of the year. The music keeps calling.

Willie Nelson

#6. My first time doing music was on acoustic guitar. I had a friend from Texas who taught me so much country, I entered a few country competitions. But eventually, I got tired of it.

Shamir

#7. I find most modern country virtually unlistenable. I can't relate to the music or the lyrics.

Jenny Lewis

#8. Life took longer to reassemble than it did to blow apart, but that didn't mean it wouldn't be lovely, providing that one remembered to go for country walks, and to tune the wireless to music.

Chris Cleave

#9. P.S. I'm going to throw an absolutely mind-blowing fact your way. I'm not kidding, either. The country of Uganda is obsessed with Celine Dion. They dedicate entire days to broadcasting her music. They love her that much. Five words. My. Heart. Will. Go. On. Yeah.

Fisher Amelie

#10. It's always a pleasure to perform for people who love country music. And Australians definitely fall into that category. Each time I go back, I learn something new about the country, and I get to see some of the most beautiful places on the planet.

Joe Nichols

#11. Country music is the combination of African and European folk songs coming together and doing a little waltz right here in the American south. They came together at some cotillion, and somebody snuck a black person into the room, and he danced with a white lady, and music was born.

Ketch Secor

#12. I have always been obsessed with America, the geography, the history, and, of course, the music. I've been lucky enough to have travelled through the country a lot, and, in a kind of anorak way, I've noted which states I've visited and which ones I've been to most often and all that sort of detail.

Tim Rice

#13. "Go and Say Goodbye" by the Buffalo Springfield stands as one of the first examples of what would later be branded country rock

Chris Hillman

#14. I couldn't do country, with all due respect to all country music artists. My parents dressed me up with a cowboy hat and we'd go to the rodeo when I was younger and it traumatized me for life.

Chris Colfer

#15. Right around the end of the fifties, college students and young people in general, began to realize that this music was almost like a history of our country - this music contained the real history of the people of this country.

Jackson Browne

#16. 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

#17. Truth has a resonance to it that fills the cracks where falsehoods lie.

Rick DeStefanis

#18. Folks out in the country couldn't afford to pay for anybody else to make music. They had to make their own. So the peasantry had their music, and it was about a hundred years ago given the name "Folk music".

Pete Seeger

#19. I'm trying to make records where people don't feel cheated. Nashville has been guilty of insulting the Country Music audience for years and years.

Steve Earle

#20. 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

#21. I don't mind putting my heart out there for the audience, and for the country music fans ... to be vulnerable with them ... that's my job as an artist.

Tyler Farr

#22. Tyler, I'd marry you again in a heartbeat. You are my fairy tale.

Rachel Harris

#23. We are cutting things kids like-music, art, and gym classes; stuff that kept me in school. This country can't survive without you kids. It's all about you kids.

Tony Danza

#24. I started to write a lot of ballads that were sultry and had a Norah Jones-for-country kind of feel. I wanted to bring elements of old soul music and old country music.

Laura Bell Bundy

#25. I think humans in general, make associations and feel the need to group things together to have a better understanding of them. Though I would say my music is more country in a lot of ways, than it is surfy.

Tristan Prettyman

#26. I grew up only singing country. I did listen to like Debbie Gibson and other pop music, but I would only sing country music.

Tonya Mitchell

#27. I'm nowhere with country music. I don't hear much of it, so I shouldn't venture an opinion, but when it finds me, it seems formulaic.

Emmylou Harris

#28. To me, country music is like the blues, but it's something very hip and - I don't want to say commercial - but it's very worldly and good listening.

Etta James

#29. I was drawn to love songs, but I was just drawn to great music - no matter if it's hip-hop, pop, R&B or whether it's rock n' roll or country. It could be a Garth Brooks song, and if it's a smash, then I'll love the different wordplay and different melodies. That's what I'm a fan of - great music.

Nayvadius Cash

#30. We create music to express ourselves and when the world relates, that's a beautiful thing. We're all trading off each other's culture, so no matter what lines you put-country indie rock, rap, we're all somehow gonna find a way to come together.

Jay-Z

#31. I love being a part of country music. I love going out and ... doing things for the first time for country music. I always enjoy that.

Garth Brooks

#32. I bet all I had on a thing called love; guess in the end it wasn't enough. And it's hard to watch you leave right now; I'm gonna have to learn to let you go somehow.

Carrie Underwood

#33. I love music.. everything from R&B to Rap to Modern Country.. I still haven't figured out my own personal vibe.. it was sort of Nora Jones then sort of electronic.. then country.. it is very hard to make it in the music industry so we shall see if I ever find the time to finish it!

Amy Weber

#34. Bass players have bigger instruments." Charlie's slow grin curled her toes and he added, "We also do it deeper.

Rachel Harris

#35. I'm sorry, I don't listen to country music.

Joey DeMaio

#36. I think my brand of country music is that's been influenced by not just the rough-stock rodeo side or Ted Nugent's "let's get crazy style", but also the stand-up and sing style's like George Strait and Merle Haggard, and also the wild side of Chris Ledoux

Cody Johnson

#37. Radio has changed, there was a little bit of difference around the country and now that is gone and everything is uniform. That is not the only place it's happening in music, there's a lot of consolidation.

Joan Jett

#38. The truth is, I think country music ... there's a lot of great people, and just being raised the way a lot of country boys and girls are, hopefully there's just a lot of respect.

Lee Brice

#39. Country music is basically one-third a part of Southern blood, the other two being church and sweet tea.

Eve Jagger

#40. Growing up with country, R&B, gospel, and classical music from my grandmother and pop, Tuskegee was the perfect melting pot for my influences as a writer.

Lionel Richie

#41. With chemistry like theirs, this was the perfect setup for a fling ... and Sherry wanted to go out on a high note.
BRING ON THE ROADIE!

Rachel Harris

#42. And to me, I had come out of Texas, and during that time was when I realized that a lot of people in Nashville, their idea of what country music was was not the same as mine.

Lee Ann Womack

#43. A guitar twanged from the far-off radio. Country music. Damn. They'd resorted to torture already.

Kelley Armstrong

#44. Patriots don't go to Russia. They don't seek asylum in Cuba. They don't seek asylum in Venezuela. They fight their cause here. Edward Snowden is a coward. He is a traitor. And he has betrayed his country. And if he wants to come home tomorrow to face the music, he can do so.

John F. Kerry

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

Willie Nelson

#46. A country that has been through as much as Vietnam has to have some crazy music somewhere.

Henry Rollins

#47. My dad was a huge country music fan, but he also had a band and he sang. So he'd listen to a lot of music and the songs that he'd learn for the band were more from the male artists. So my earliest country memories were Waylon Jennings, Conway Twitty, George Jones, Johnny Paycheck even.

Martina Mcbride

#48. The music that I've had out so far was obviously very pop, but when I signed with Hollywood Records, I was like, 'I know that's the music you're familiar with, but that's not what I want to sing. I want to do country.' They were on board with it!

Lucy Hale

#49. I embrace country music because of love, a love of what I came from.

Dwight Yoakam

#50. And obviously, when I started out, I had a little bit more curiosity than some, and went seeking out the original artists, or in some cases searching up country music.

Elvis Costello

#51. I am a gay, Christian, farm girl from Kansas who sang Country Music and I did the very best I could do
to know God and to share God.

Chely Wright

#52. The country music stations plays soft but there's nothing, really nothing to turn off.

Bob Dylan

#53. 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

#54. I love country music, but I find it very hard to take it seriously. I also think a lot of country music is sung with the tongue in cheek, so I do it tongue in cheek.

Mick Jagger

#55. I think popular music in this country is one of the few things in the twentieth century that have made giant strides in reverse.

Bing Crosby

#56. I'm thrilled that country music fans like my stuff, but so do a lot of people outside of country music, people who just love music. My goal is more to reach music lovers than to appeal to a genre. I love country music, and I'm proud to represent it, but I don't obsess over it as a category.

Kacey Musgraves

#57. I'm really proud to be a woman representing Country music

Kacey Musgraves

#58. You seldom hear any young artists in country music.

Conway Twitty

#59. Her pulse pounded in her ears. She didn't need to turn around to know he was standing behind her. Most likely with a smirk at catching her impromptu belly dance.

Rachel Harris

#60. Country fans are the best fans out there because of the loyalty, and the way that they apply your music to every aspect of their life.

Eric Church

#61. I always loved bluegrass, but there was so much I didn't know about American country music in respect to the origins of this country. It was interesting to see the evolution of it.

Clare Bowen

#62. 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.

Shane Filan

#63. I think country music is really one of the biggest genres of music out there and one the most successful genres.

Tim McGraw

#64. Well, we play Country music; we're just not sure what country it is.

Jerry Jeff Walker

#65. I don't like country music."
"No one does. We listen to it to piss off other people.

Bijou Hunter

#66. I'm not really into alternative country - I'm into Patsy Cline, who lived down the street from where I lived, and old Dolly Parton records, Kitty Wells and that old stuff. I like country music. I also like Eric Church, who has a great new sound but also holds onto that old sound.

Valerie June

#67. I think it's hard to put a finger on my music. My music has always been an amalgamation of everything I listen to, which includes everything and anything under the sun. Hip-hop to country to R&B to pop, all the things I'm inspired by find a way into what I do.

Travie McCoy

#68. My influences are jazz, blues, European classical music; they are rock music and pop music. So many kinds of music. World music from different countries like India and China. I think that would be a shame not to take advantage and do something ... not unique, because I don't have this pretension.

Rokia Traore

#69. Everybody knows in the business how I feel about country music. I'm an old traditionalist. Then they just call me an old man and stuck in my old ways, but with all the fans I've got out there, I can't be all that wrong. I do love traditional country music. I love the good stuff.

George Jones

#70. Everybody does music from his culture and his experiences with his culture. There are not so many people who are interested by the music coming from different countries and different cultures and trying to make music from that, from all these experiences.

Rokia Traore

#71. In fact all country music - with its wailing hearts, tearful angst, and neatly trimmed facial hair - is a little too gay for its own good.

Wallace Godfrey

#72. Oh, I think it's definitely spiritual. All music is. I think it's maybe one of the highest forms of spirituality.

Willie Nelson

#73. My piano has not yet arrived. How did you send it? By Marseilles or by Perpignan? I dream music but I cannot make any because here there are not any pianos ... in this respect this is a savage country.

Frederic Chopin

#74. When I moved to New York, I fell head over heels back into country music and probably 'cause I missed something about Texas.

Norah Jones

#75. I've never turned my back on country music.

Reba McEntire

#76. A lot of my music is very roots-oriented, and that's country and soul. I've been in every roadhouse in the South, soaking in all of that ... Nashville is like a second home to me, and I'm just gravitating toward the songs.

Taylor Hicks

#77. The industry is always changing, but country music is like a force that always comes back.

Tyler Farr

#78. In these confused times, the role of classical music is at the very core of the struggle to reassert cultural and ethical values that have always characterized our country and for which we have traditionally been honored and respected outside our shores.

Lorin Maazel

#79. There were a lot of heads turning when people found out I was doing music and when they found out it was country, they were like, 'What?'

Lucy Hale

#80. Music may be his passion
but this, right here, was his dream.

Rachel Harris

#81. When I decided to go to a country that subsidized music, I went to the Soviet Union for two years.

Alex North

#82. I'm pretty open to all music. Its pretty funny because I've spent time in Germany and now I'm in Dallas where Country is a big thing. I used to hate it but now I can actually go through a song.

Steve Purdy

#83. That internal ache is the starting point of country music. If it's a happy song and I can still feel sad in it? That's my favorite.

Shane McAnally

#84. People think it is all about country music, and I know a lot of country music has come out of there, but like Blonde on Blonde by Bob Dillon was recorded there. A lot of great records; R&B records, jazz records. It's a lot of great players and great studios.

Elvis Costello

#85. I was raised on a farm in East Tennessee, and my first concert was Britney Spears. It's my job as a country music artist to be honest about that.

Kelsea Ballerini

#86. By no means do I want to try to leave country music. That's absolutely where I want to stay.

Sam Hunt

#87. Well, I am not sure of when my album will be released but my music has a lot of different sounds. I'm a hip-hop/R&B girl at heart, but I love pop music as well, and I even have an affinity for country music. So I would say my music might have something for everyone.

Zendaya

#88. I've been a fan of old country music, like Willie Nelson, Patsy Cline. I think I'm drawn to it because of the sense of sadness and sort of loss that a lot of good old country music has.

Sarah McLachlan

#89. It's not very long ago that we were all singing country music. And country music is equally black as it is white and that's important to recognize.

Ketch Secor

#90. A good country song takes a page out of somebody's life and puts it to music.

Conway Twitty

#91. I've always been a fan of country music. It's America's music - I love the songs, love the lyrics.

Charles Koppelman

#92. The word matters in country music, and it always has. And everybody had lived those words in country songs.

Brenda Lee

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

Scotty McCreery

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

Ashley Benson

#95. I hope that country music embraces me because I grew up on it and have a love for the music.

Crystal Bowersox

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

Bobby Heenan

#97. Canada does a really a phenomenal job of producing music, actors, and entertainers. If you look at the number of people we have in our country relative to the number of people that are prominent in the entertainment industry, it's pretty impressive.

Stephen Amell

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

Johnny Cash

#99. 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.

Al Franken

#100. I always had a standard of, back when I was doing the country music I always told people I would never record a song that I wouldn't sit down and sing in front of my mom and dad.

Ricky Skaggs

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