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Country artists have advantages all over the place. The radio support is incredible. The fanbase is rabid, all over. -- Amos Lee
Well, you know, people don't know me as a country artist and I am new to the genre. But that's how I grew up singing. -- Kristin Chenoweth
Country music fans are extremely passionate and loyal. It seems that country artists have longer-lasting careers because the fans stick with the artists through thick and thin. -- Miranda Lambert
It used to be that youd have a song recorded by a major country artist and if it was a hit, you could buy a car. Now you can buy a dealership. -- Tom T. Hall
I'm not really a big Springsteen guy. I'll listen to the music, but ... I didn't really get attached to it as much as, like, country artists. That's really who I listen to. -- Mike Trout
I wouldn't necessarily say she is a country artist. I mean, obviously Taylor Swift started in country, but she morphed into somewhat of a cultural icon, so, who am I to judge what she is? -- Luke Bryan
Country sure has changed in the last 10 years. It was one thing, then it was another. Country has slowly marched toward a rock beat and rock preservation. Country artists of today. Man! That's how I used to sound in the '80s. -- John Mellencamp
I was a bit scared because I came from the acting world. There was a fear that people would think of me kind of as a joke. But really, people think of me as a country artist who can act. That's my favorite compliment. -- Jana Kramer
No matter what genre of music you play when you rack up a couple years of experience, you have your own point of view no matter who it is that is coming in front of you whether it's a pop artist or a country artist. Whoever. -- Harry Connick, Jr.
Country artists, I met a lot of them when I was five, six years old. I had an uncle who was a country and western singer and I met Lefty Frizzell when I was five or six years old in those shows that would come through Toronto from Nashville. -- Rick Danko
I feel like I am beginning to be a part of a musical community, but I wouldn't say I'm a country artist because I wouldn't want to invalidate anybody else or to even begin to be so preposterous as to think I can just skate into town and get some fans. -- Sheryl Crow
When I first started, you could go to a college campus and it was not cool to wear a country artist's shirt on campus. It was taboo, and there was a stigma involved. In the time from then till now, I'm amazed at how much things have changed. It's young now, it's cool, it's hip -- Eric Church
Country music as we know it would be vastly different if it weren't for George Jones. He's in our musical DNA. All country artists will have to figure out how to even begin to live up to his kind of legacy. 'Honky Tonk Heaven,' here he comes... though we're not ready to let go. -- Pam Tillis
I love artists making cool music, regardless of the style.So, if a country artist making really cool music came along and asked me to work with them, I just might say yes, even though I'm not super-knowledgeable about country, like I am about hip-hop. I might do that because the idea is so interesting. -- Joseph Trapanese
I feel my job as an artist is to drive people to country radio. That's my job as a country artist. So these streaming places, especially these on-demand streaming places, where you can just push a button and hear it as many times as you want, like YouTube, any of that stuff, that's taking all the ears away from country radio. -- Garth Brooks
I'm no expert in what country artists go through or how country audiences would react, but I'll say that the work I did to put myself in Will Lexington's shoes absolutely led me to believe that it would ruin his career. Meanwhile, I was getting lots of supportive messages saying, "Will Lexington should just come out! It's 2015 already, audiences are going to embrace it!" -- Chris Carmack
I'm not sure how we exist, as an artist, without country radio. -- Garth Brooks
I'm a country artist first and just happen to be on television doing it. -- Blake Shelton
Everyone loathes his own country and countrymen if he is any sort of artist. -- Lawrence Durrell
I don't want to just be an artist for one country, I want to produce for the world. -- Martin Garrix
To retain his dignity, an artist must live in opposition. He must be critical of his country. If not, then he is worthless. -- Bruno Dumont
I see little more important to the future of our country and our civilization than the full recognition of the place of the artist. -- John F. Kennedy
When I land in a country and they ask for 'occupation,' I always just put 'artist.' I think that covers all of it. -- Viggo Mortensen
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. -- Natalie Maines
I think every creative impulse that a working writer, or artist of any sort has, comes out of that dark old country where dreams come from. -- Anne Rivers Siddons
I don't mind putting my heart out there for the audience, and for the country music fans... to be vulnerable with them... that's my job as an artist. -- Tyler Farr
I was raised on a farm in East Tennessee, and my first concert was Britney Spears. It's my job as a country music artist to be honest about that. -- Kelsea Ballerini
For an artist to go and play in a country that occupies other people's land and oppresses them, the way Israel does, is plain wrong. They should say no. -- Roger Waters
It used to be that you'd have a song recorded by a major country artist and if it was a hit, you could buy a car. Now you can buy a dealership. -- Tom T. Hall
It's not for me to determine what a country artist has in common with a hip-hop artist. You go for those with long-lasting careers. And that's what I've had as my target all my life. -- Clive Davis

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