Quotes About Country Music And Life

#1. Country Music is great music because it really comes from real life experiences. It is such a great haven for reality.

Bryan White

#2. True country music is honesty, sincerity, and real life to the hilt.

Garth Brooks

#3. Country music has become the music that best represents the reality of American life.

Brad Paisley

#4. I listened to country music my whole life. I started writing music when I was a teenager. It all came out country.

Laura Bell Bundy

#5. My dad taught me to play the guitar. We grew up with country music. We had every Willie Nelson record (laughs). I was saved at a young age and had a great desire to follow God. I was really focused on that through my whole life, even as a kid and through high school.

Chris Tomlin

#6. There is a general place in your brain, I think, reserved for melancholy of relationships past. It grows and prospers as life progresses, forcing you finally, against your better judgment, to listen to country music.

Kary Mullis

#7. Country music was a part of my life. Now it isn't. We had a good relationship, really, but we wanted each other at arm's length. The people in Nashville didn't want to be responsible for my looks or my actions. But they sure did like the listeners I brought.

K.d. Lang

#8. But one day, when I was still young, I was parted from my family and left my native country. I hunted and searched for music, and destiny turned me into the object of my hunt. The circumstances of life became my 'antlers' and prevented me from returning home.

Georg Solti

#9. And we'll let the world dance around us while you lie here in my arms. The beat of your heart is all the music I need to hear. I spent my whole life searching for this melody, so I'll listen while I hold you near.

Courtney Giardina

#10. 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

#11. You have the ability to write melodies and to put lyrics that mean something: to speak about life and what people are going through in their every day ups and downs, the good times and the bad times. Country music has always talked about life, I think; that's what I've always loved about it.

Jimi Westbrook

#12. I was born and trained to communicate music, just as the sons were born and trained to hunt, and I was lucky to have grown up in Hungary, a country that lives and breathes music-that has a passionate belief in the power of music as a celebration of life.

Georg Solti

#13. People like Howlin' Wolf, Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones, John Lee Hooker, Nina Simone, Captain Beefheart - all of these artists were what I grew up listening to every day of my life. And there's a very healthy music scene in the west country of England, where I grew up.

P.J. Harvey

#14. I would say country is the one type of music I've spent the least amount of time with in my life. I grew up in Virginia, where there was a lot of it, but I was more interested in rock and roll. Southern rock.

Connie Britton

#15. To me, country music's about life. It's about Monday through Friday. It's the blue-collar, 40-hour week, songs about life. It used to have more of a sound, but I think the heart of that's still the same. It's still American music.

Gary Allan

#16. In the three minutes it takes the song to play I'm caught in a magic world of harmony and joy, a truly ecstatic joy, where the aching longing to be somewhere else, out of this city, out of this country, out of this body and out of this life, is kept at bay.

Christos Tsiolkas

#17. Country music is the people's music. It just speaks about real life and about truth and it tells things how they really are.

Faith Hill

#18. Country music is important to me, and I love it, but it's not my whole life.

George Strait

#19. Of all the parts that make up my somewhat quirky life, there are few things that raise a stranger's eyebrows faster than discovering I love country music.

LZ Granderson

#20. Soon, the nonstop buzzing of the local insect life gives way to something equally annoying. Country music.

Pittacus Lore

#21. My early childhood memories center around this typical American country store and life in a small American town, including 4th of July celebrations marked by fireworks and patriotic music played from a pavilion bandstand.

Frederick Reines

#22. 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

#23. 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

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

Conway Twitty

#25. This is real, this is your life in a song ... this is country music.

Brad Paisley

#26. [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.

Rodney Crowell

#27. A big part of country music is a way of life, at least from my standpoint. That's how I craft my music from my own life experiences.

Luke Bryan

#28. Music is a huge part of my life, I enjoy every genre of music from jazz to country, and I even get down with a bit of hip hop.

Nicole Richie

#29. I was five years old, onstage singing 'Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star' - a rock version - and I was always wanting to entertain. But the biggest thing for me is just country music has helped me get through the worst times of my life and the best times of my life. I want to give that back to people.

Jana Kramer

#30. So many girls come up and say to me, 'I have never listened to country music in my life. I didn't even know my town had a country-music station. Then I got your record, and now I'm obsessed.' That's the coolest compliment to me.

Taylor Swift

#31. 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

#32. I've lived in N.Y. and L.A. for many years, but I still gravitate to New Orleans - it's so unique and so European. There's nothing else like it in the country. It has its own music, its own food, its own style and its own way of life.

Bryan Batt

#33. Because I see
A rainstorm in June
Just before the sun
The black of night
Just before the stars
And, girl, I see your ghost
Just before our dawn

Laura Miller

#34. I spent a lot of time making music and touring around the country and living the weird life. I was just trying to keep a job and get by. So in a lot of ways, I went through a strange version of film school. So you live through a lot of things, and put them into your work.

Dito Montiel

#35. My definition of country music is really pretty simple. It's when someone sings about their life and what they know, from an authentic place.

Taylor Swift

#36. I tried so many different musics. I kind of burned out on classical and wanted to make it fun again. I started playing with indie bands and country bands and finally realized electronic music brought my style to life.

Lindsey Stirling

#37. I do know that country music is driven by the songs. I think there's probably a core of what the material is about, which is family and love and the ups and downs of life, and I think that resonates with people.

Jimi Westbrook

#38. Country music to me is heartfelt music that speaks to the common man. It is about real life stories with rather simple melodies that the average person can follow. Country music should speak directly and simply about the highs and lows of life. Something that anyone can relate to.

George Jones

#39. Country music fans are extremely supportive. Once they're with you, they're with you for life.

Faith Hill

#40. I draw inspiration from anything and everybody and that's what country music is to me ... real life stories and real life emotions.

Dustin Lynch