Buck Owens (Alvis Edgar Owens Jr.) Quotes
If you want me in the Hall of Fame put me in because of some contributions that I have made to country music.
Quotes to Explore
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I knew I didn't want to make a country record just because that's not really what I would have ever made as a solo artist.
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For nearly a century and a half, this country deluded itself into thinking that its greatest calamity, the Civil War, had nothing to do with one of its greatest sins, enslavement. It deluded itself in this manner despite available evidence to the contrary.
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Country music is three chords and the truth.
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Coming to Nashville has been so motivating and inspirational. Just watching people live and breathe their music and create something that they can feel from start to finish.
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Music history has flowed under the bridges for many years.
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My mom always told me I should have a Plan B. I said that if I'm not going to play guitar I'm going to play drums. And if I'm not going to play drums, I'm going to play bass. I always just wanted to play music. I was completely obsessed.
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It has been suggested that those of us who are fighting to defend liberty - fighting to turn around the out-of-control spending and out-of-control debt in this country, fighting to defend the Constitution, it has been suggested that we are wacko birds.
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When I go to a country, I go to flea markets, antique stores. I am always looking for something.
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Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
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Music to me is so internal. It's physical and it's emotional. Whereas fashion is so much about the external that it's almost like a break. It's not inner turmoil. It's total escapism.
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If you want to change a country, you're going to be bumped every now and then.
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Music evokes so many feelings in us, memories, nostalgia, things that are connected to our past.
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My sound is, at its core, a mix of things. Definitely an imperfect mix, but one that incorporates elements of the music I love - a bit of indie rock, super rhythmic rapping, and lots of synths.
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It's tragic that you can define a whole movement in music by gender alone. People are like, 'Oh, look, another quirky girl.'
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I went to community college for about a year but I'd started taking music seriously by then so I dropped out.
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Being a woman in country is really empowering. It's a genre where you can truly say whatever you want to say as long as you're 100% behind your message and who you are.
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The only time I've ever really felt envy is when I've watched people make music, which made my time living in the now-legendary Jazz Loft at 821 Sixth Avenue in New York a constant source of agony and ecstasy!
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The rappers have gone in and created a lot of hit music based upon my influence. And they'll tell you if you ask.
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Apple has given me a platform to spread music. They're giving us Latinos a chance to shine.
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If home cooks shopped in their own vegetable bin before going to the market, they would save money and help the environment, too, and all because they decided to rescue a vegetable before it turned bad.
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I think we live in a time where people are just insane on the subject of how they look.
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The problem is too often they are boring, and boring in a meeting happens for the same reason as in a book or movie - when there is not enough compelling tension. Meetings should be intense.
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Sponsored stories are not a great way to monetize mobile traffic. The phone is way more of a publishing tool than a reading tool. The attention users pay to the streams on mobile is far less than on the desktop.
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If you want me in the Hall of Fame put me in because of some contributions that I have made to country music.
