Quotes About Real Country Music

#1. 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

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

Brad Paisley

#3. I think country music is popular - has been popular and will always be popular because I think a lot of real people singing about a lot of real stuff about real people. And it's simple enough for people to understand it. And we kind of roll with the punches.

Dolly Parton

#4. Roy Acuff was the first country music star to buy a home in a fashionable section of Nashville. The real estate man said, 'Mr. Acuff, how do you plan to take care of this?' since the house was very expensive at the time. Roy said, 'Would cash be all right?'

Minnie Pearl

#5. 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

#6. This is just strictly me wanting to make a record that is the real deal. It is all the stuff that I have learned and know that I remember. It's what I perceive as country music is about.

Vince Gill

#7. The truth of country music, the real stuff, will prevail ... generation after generation.

Marty Stuart

#8. 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

#9. There's a place for all types of country music as long as there is honesty and realness and a real human experience for the fans.

Wynonna Judd

#10. Country Music has always changed for the times, if you listen to the recordings from the 50's to 60's to 70's, to now, the message is still there, basic down to earth songs about real people, it the music that's been updated. Some of it I like, but still prefer the traditional sound.

Mark Chesnutt

#11. 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

#12. I want to reach the point where people hear my name and immediately think of real country music.

George Strait

#13. What you see is kinda what you get with me. I'm a very real person, or I hope to be, anyway. I don't have nothing to hide

Kenny Chesney

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

Garth Brooks

#15. I've grown up with country music. I love how real everybody is, not just the artists, but the fans.

Julianne Hough

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

Bryan White

#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. I am now satisfied that the future music of this country must be founded upon what are called negro melodies. This must be the real foundation of any serious and original school of composition to be developed in the United States.

Antonin Dvorak

#19. I think that was going on with bands like The Strokes was that the idea of the band, a real band, was making a comeback. My brother in law is an example- before he was listening to some country music, even some of that awful nu-metal stuff , but there weren't many options really.

James Mercer

#20. Anyone who knows or cares anything about real country music will agree that George Jones is the voice of it.

Dolly Parton