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.Buck Owens
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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.
Ta-Nehisi Coates -
Country music is three chords and the truth.
Harlan Howard -
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.
Madi Diaz -
Music history has flowed under the bridges for many years.
Gavin Bryars -
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.
Gary Clark Jr. -
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.
Ted Cruz
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When I go to a country, I go to flea markets, antique stores. I am always looking for something.
Ursula Andress -
Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
W. H. Auden -
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.
Florence Welch Florence and the Machine -
If you want to change a country, you're going to be bumped every now and then.
Yair Lapid -
Music evokes so many feelings in us, memories, nostalgia, things that are connected to our past.
Olga Kurylenko -
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.
K. Flay
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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.'
Paloma Faith -
I went to community college for about a year but I'd started taking music seriously by then so I dropped out.
Caitlin Rose -
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.
Madison Marlow -
The rappers have gone in and created a lot of hit music based upon my influence. And they'll tell you if you ask.
Isaac Hayes -
Mankind progresses not smoothly, as by a sliding carpet ascent, but by rugged steps broken by gaps. He halts long on one stage before taking the next. Often he remains stationary, unable to form resolution to step forward - sometimes even has turned round and retrograded.
Sabine Baring-Gould -
I first came to Russia because of the culture, literature and music... and my interest in the 19th-century revolutionary spirit of Herzen, Bakunin and Kropotkin. Russia is a wonderful place to bring new clowns because Russians give back a wonderful response.
Patch Adams
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Once the Afghan people vote and they choose their President with direct, secret ballot from all over the country, there will be a lot of difference in this country and a lot of legitimate power to flow with implementation.
Hamid Karzai -
Music isn`t for the eyes, it`s for the ears.
Adele -
I'm perfectly gregarious, but I can also be really happy left to my own devices with nobody watching me or listening to me.
Lindsay Duncan -
God didn't design anyone to be recognized by 2 billion people.
Peter Falk -
There are libertarian conservatives, fiscal conservatives, and social conservatives. I feel conservative in terms of limited government, individual responsibility, self-sufficiency - that sort of thing.
Ted Olson -
If you want me in the Hall of Fame put me in because of some contributions that I have made to country music.
Buck Owens