Stompin' Tom Connors Quotes

Canada, Singer-Songwriter
February 9, 1936 – March, 6, 2013.

Charles Thomas "Stompin' Tom" Connors, OC was a Canadian country and folk singer-songwriter from Saint John, New Brunswick. Focusing his career exclusively on his native Canada, Connors is credited with writing more than 300 songs and has released four dozen albums, with total sales of nearly 4 million copies.

My retirement, back in 1976, began as a one-year boycott to challenge the media on that question. I refused to return until the media, and radio stations in particular, got a hold on identifiably Canadian songs.

Stompin' Tom Connors
- Retirement
- Radio
- Return
On every album I've put out, I've put diverse Canadian songs on it. They're not provincial album; my albums are national albums. There'll be a song about Saskatchewan and Vancouver and Nova Scotia on there.

Stompin' Tom Connors
- Songs
- Album
- Canadian

If you don't think that your country should come before yourself, you can better serve your country by livin' someplace else.

Stompin' Tom Connors
- Country
- Serve
- Livin
It was a long hard bumpy road, but this great country kept me inspired with its beauty, character, and spirit, driving me to keep marching on and devoted to sing about its people and places that make Canada the greatest country in the world

Stompin' Tom Connors
- Country
- Greatest
- Canada
Because I believe in my ... proud citizen of this country should be doing. And that is to try and put in as much as he takes out. I guess it's to the hard knocks of life that I attribute this conclusion.

Stompin' Tom Connors
- Believe
- Country