Country Music Quotes
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I'm not really concerned so much with the industry, except in country music, as long as our fans keep coming to the shows and keep buying the records and we keep having success on country radio.
Jay DeMarcus Rascal Flatts -
Plus I love Tanya Tucker and I love country music.
Little Richard
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To me, country music is like the blues, but it's something very hip and - I don't want to say commercial - but it's very worldly and good listening.
Etta James -
I love to listen to traditional country music. That's where I get a lot of inspiration.
Margo Price -
I think country music is Lynyrd Skynyrd. I think a lot of the country music is what we do, but I don't think rock & roll is dead at all.
Johnny Van Zant Lynyrd Skynyrd -
When I was 3 years old, I was playing banjo on a country music TV show.
Rickey Medlocke Lynyrd Skynyrd -
I'm a serious aficionada of country music - Reba McEntire, Toby Keith, Montgomery Gentry. I've even written some songs. They haven't done anything of mine yet. But it's only a matter of time.
Maya Angelou -
Our business is based in Nashville, and it always will be, but New York City is still our No. 1 or No. 2 market. There's an amazing history of country music here; most people just don't realize. Garth Brooks is still the biggest concert that was ever in Central Park.
Leon Eric Brooks III Brooks & Dunn
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Country music in the mid-'90s was a big influence on my career, and I played all the songs that are referenced in '94' back in my club days. Joe Diffie was rocking a sick mullet, and he was hotter than ever... just putting out monster hit after monster hit. It totally takes me back to those days, and it makes me smile every time I hear it.
Jason Aldean -
People would say, 'Why are you guys in country music? You look like you're in the Backstreet Boys.' We took so much heat. We always said, 'It's not about hats and Wrangler Jeans. It's about a state of mind. Country is in our souls.'
Jay DeMarcus Rascal Flatts -
I think Patsy Cline made country music classy. She just opens her mouth, and it's just heavenly.
Melissa Etheridge -
I guess, somewhere along the line, when we first came out, somebody thought it was a crime to be young and not wear a cowboy hat and sing country music.
Jay DeMarcus Rascal Flatts -
I think country music is obviously a great form of music. I think it's cool and has mass appeal.
Jason Aldean -
I'm sorry, I don't listen to country music.
Joey DeMaio Manowar
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The effects of good music are not just because it's new; on the contrary music strikes us more the more familiar we are with it.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
Country music has the great stories.
Etta James -
One of the things that I think is such a constant in country music is that the song is so much a story. I believe it is supposed to be based around a story.
Suzy Bogguss -
People think it is all about country music, and I know a lot of country music has come out of there, but like Blonde on Blonde by Bob Dillon was recorded there. A lot of great records; R&B records, jazz records. It's a lot of great players and great studios.
Elvis Costello -
Going on tour with the man leading the way with traditional country music... Jon Pardi. And our single is Wild West!!! What is my life!?
Jennifer Wayne Runaway June -
Country music... doesn't bend notes in the same way, so I suppose it's very English, really. Even though it's been very Americanized, it feels very close to me, to my roots, so to speak.
Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones
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We were so influenced not only by country music but by the rock bands of the '80s. Our focus was to bring in something different. Country music already had a George Strait and Alabama. We wanted to put some pop music in our show.
Jay DeMarcus Rascal Flatts -
You come to a country music show and it's like a rock show, it's so different, it's just not what people think it is, it's really cool and I think that if people just give it a chance they'd see that it's really cool and I think that's what people are finally starting to see.
Jason Aldean -
I tended to listen to doo-wop, but my grandmother would always have the radio on all day and she'd start with Yiddish and then move on to gospel and later to "make believe" ballroom music. I got to hear all kinds of music and my mother would get up to go to work listening to country music. That was her alarm clock. My dad was a jazz lover and listened to the man who wrote "Misty", Errol Garner. He loved piano players, so I got to listen to that as well.
Richie Havens -
I think maybe we underestimate the country music audience.
Brandy Clark