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I love Country Music but what happened to it? -- Bob Dylan
I am deeply stoned on the intoxicating effects of [Country Music.] -- Cary Ann Hearst
Me and my partner, Conway Twitty, cleaned up at the 1972 Country Music Association Awards. -- Loretta Lynn
Country Music is great music because it really comes from real life experiences. It is such a great haven for reality. -- Bryan White
I'm trying to make records where people don't feel cheated. Nashville has been guilty of insulting the Country Music audience for years and years. -- Steve Earle
I really like Alan Jackson, in Country Music. I think he's really very, very talented along with George Jones, and Merle Haggard, the same old favorites. -- Tanya Tucker
[My parents] worked hard all week long, and the way they celebrated and rejoiced in life was by making music on weekends. And that music was Country Music. -- Rodney Crowell
I am a gay, Christian, farm girl from Kansas who sang Country Music and I did the very best I could do -- to know God and to share God. -- Chely Wright
I grew up with all kinds ofmusic, but my heart was particularly drawn to Country Music because of the guitar playing, the lyrics and of artists like Steve Warner and Vince Gill. -- Bryan White
The Country Music Awards were held Wednesday night at Universal City. The best country songs are always about drinking and guns and love gone wrong. Next year they're giving Robert Blake the Lifetime Achievement Award. -- Argus Hamilton
I love playing the CMA Music Festival each year because it's one of the very best audiences you could hope for. It's one of the places you can perform where you know everyone there is a big Country Music fan. -- Trace Adkins
I remember people would talk about Country Music like it was this sexist, lame thing. Well, no, because Dolly Parton is writing songs and playing her guitar and producing. She's doing it all and she's got hits on the radio. -- Neko Case
People get strange about whether you've written your own songs, which seems really stupid considering that, especially in Country Music, it's about oral tradition and passing things on and the songs weren't meant to be played by one person and then forgotten. -- Neko Case
George Jones will always be one of the most amazing singers who ever lived. He was a true Country Music legend who made music very personal to the listener â?? I think more than anyone else. He will be dearly missed, but always remembered. -- Kenny Rogers
[Country Music] is the final destination for many punk rockers [...] Rockabilly is the mid-point and then [they] end up at Country [...] There's purity to that music and I think that appeals to a lot of punk rock people - the precision, the purity, and the directness of Country Music. -- John C. Reilly
Kitty Wells was the first and only Queen of Country Music, no matter what they call the rest of us. She was a great inspiration to me as well as every other female singer in the country music business. In addition to being a wonderful asset to country music, she was a wonderful woman. -- Dolly Parton
Kitty Wells was the first and only Queen of Country Music, no matter what they call the rest of us. She was a great inspiration to me as well as every other female singer in the country music business. In addition to being a wonderful asset to country music, she was a wonderful woman. We will always remember her fondly. -- Dolly Parton
I worked for [Canadian Country Music Hall of Fame inductee] Tommy Hunter. It was a wonderful training program at the CBC, because they made sure they never paid you very much, so you had to do a lot of things, and that way you made some money. [A phone rings.] That's my agent right now telling me I've got a 13 cent residual from Tommy Hunter in 1969. -- Alan Thicke
You gotta 'be' country music - you can't just sing it. -- Scotty McCreery
I was introduced to country music around a campfire on a farm. -- Gavin DeGraw
True country music is honesty, sincerity, and real life to the hilt. -- Garth Brooks
There's a great enthusiasm for good country music all over the world. -- Willie Nelson
You know, traditional country music is something that's going to be around forever. -- George Strait
Country music has become the music that best represents the reality of American life. -- Brad Paisley
The one thing I wanted to do more than anything else was sing country music. -- Patsy Cline
Country music is important to me, and I love it, but it's not my whole life. -- George Strait
That's one wonderful thing about country music - it shifts, ebbs, and flows stylistically, unlike pop music. -- Steven Curtis Chapman
I want to reach the point where people hear my name and immediately think of real country music. -- George Strait
If you talk bad about country music, it's like saying bad things about my momma. Them's fightin' words. -- Dolly Parton
Country music is the people's music. It just speaks about real life and about truth and it tells things how they really are. -- Faith Hill
My definition of country music is really pretty simple. It's when someone sings about their life and what they know, from an authentic place. -- Taylor Swift
What I loved about country music when I was a kid was the Grand Ole Opry, was 'Hee Haw,' was 360 degrees of entertainment. -- Laura Bell Bundy
I don't like country music, but I don't mean to denigrate those who do. And for the people who like country music, denigrate means 'put down'. -- Bob Newhart
I write some country music. There's a song called 'I Hope You Dance.' Incredible. I was going to write that poem; somebody beat me to it. -- Maya Angelou
Of all the parts that make up my somewhat quirky life, there are few things that raise a stranger's eyebrows faster than discovering I love country music. -- LZ Granderson
Country music is still your grandpa's music, but it's also your daughter's music. It's getting bigger and better all the time and I'm glad to be a part of it. -- Shania Twain
Of emotions, of love, of breakup, of love and hate and death and dying, mama, apple pie, and the whole thing. It covers a lot of territory, country music does. -- Johnny Cash
Social topics may hit too close to home for people, but then again, if you pull a heartstring, then that's what country music is. It's not just songs about getting drunk and leaving your girl. -- Kenny Chesney
All I can hope to do is instill great morality in my son and trust him along the way. The music he listens to or how he chooses to wear his hair doesn't define his moral compass, and if he wants to listen to country music and wear a cowboy hat too, that's fine. -- Mark Hoppus
I'm really annoyed by the wave of country music that's just a list of stuff. It almost sounds like L.A. people writing country music, because it's just a list of stuff: 'My pickup truck and my cowboy boots and my Levi's jeans and my girlfriend with the short shorts.' It's so boring! -- Kathleen Hanna
It never mattered to me that people in school didn't think that country music was cool, and they made fun of me for it - though it did matter to me that I was not wearing the clothes that everybody was wearing at that moment. But at some point, I was just like, 'I like wearing sundresses and cowboy boots.' -- Taylor Swift
I think I first realized I wanted to be in country music and be an artist when I was 10. And I started dragging my parents to festivals, and fairs, and karaoke contests, and I did that for about a year before I came to Nashville for the first time. I was 11 and I had this demo CD of me singing Dixie Chicks and Leanne Rimes songs. -- Taylor Swift
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
I went to my dad when I was 17 and said, 'I want to be a country music star.' Which every dad loves to hear. And he said, 'I want you to go to college.' So we had a discussion. And I'm pretty stubborn. I'm a lot like him. And he said, 'If you go to college and graduate, I'll pay your first six months of rent in Nashville.' So he bribed me. -- Eric Church
I love country music. -- Miranda Lambert
I love country music. -- Miranda Lambert
Country music belongs to America. -- Bill Monroe
Country's hip; it's cool music. -- Ricky Skaggs
I do love country music. -- Kesha
I got country music in me. -- Shemar Moore
Country music has the great stories. -- Etta James
A lot of country music is sad. -- Willie Nelson
Country music will never be the same. -- Larry Gatlin
I've always stood up for country music. -- Alan Jackson
I've always wanted to sing country music. -- Julianne Hough
The poetry of country music will survive. -- Rodney Crowell
Country music is three chords and the truth. -- Harlan Howard
I never listened to country music growing up. -- Deana Carter
I guess country music works better in supermarkets. -- Todd Rundgren
I'm sorry, I don't listen to country music. -- Joey DeMaio
I've never turned my back on country music. -- Reba McEntire
I've always had a love of country music. -- Kid Rock
Country music is completely punk-rock. It's the original punk-rock. -- Neko Case
I like music. Country, hip-hop, R&B, sometimes classical. -- Zaha Hadid
Country music has always sort of been country music. -- Miranda Lambert
You seldom hear any young artists in country music. -- Conway Twitty
I think maybe we underestimate the country music audience. -- Brandy Clark
I love being a part of the country-music community. -- Taylor Swift
I've spent a lifetime in love with country music. -- Blake Shelton
I grew up in the country surrounded by music. -- Martina McBride
I love country music, always have and always will. -- Casey James
I expect to make a career out of country music. -- Darius Rucker
When I think about country music, I think about America. -- Johnny Cash
Country music historically has been sort of middle-aged people's music. -- John Shelton Reed
I think there's enough room in country music for everybody. -- Charley Pride
Plus I love Tanya Tucker and I love country music. -- Little Richard
That's country music for you - bourbon and the Bible. -- Dave Haywood
I'm really proud to be a woman representing Country music -- Kacey Musgraves
I have such a deep love for traditional country music. -- Connie Smith
Holland is to dance music what Nashville is to country. -- Afrojack
My love, growing up on the Prairies, was country music. -- Randy Bachman
When you're playing country music, you have to tell the truth. -- Christian Kane
My earliest memories of country music are the Grand Ole Opry. -- Lionel Richie
Country music is about new love and it's about old love. -- Jeff Foxworthy
The only country that hasn't liked my music is my own. -- Joss Stone
My fame came from my success as a country music singer, -- Mindy McCready
Country music runs through my veins. I love it very much. -- Skylar Laine
You gotta be country music - you can't just sing it. -- Scotty McCreery
I'm not crazy about country-western music. But the lyrics are good. -- Alice Cooper
My fame came from my success as a country music singer. -- Mindy McCready
I see the value in every kind of music, even country. -- Diplo
Country music has always been the best shrink that 15 bucks can buy. -- Dierks Bentley
I fell asleep watching the country music channel and woke up racist. -- Daniel Tosh
There's only two kinds of music I don't like....Country and Western. -- Bobby Heenan
I think it's a natural fit, major league baseball and country music. -- Joe Nichols
There's only two kinds of music I don't like... Country and Western. -- Bobby Heenan
I always like to get local music when I'm in another country. -- April Winchell
As a major country music fan, the CMA awards are my favorite! -- Megan Alexander
I love country music. I don't ever feel restricted by the genre. -- Martina McBride
I have a confession to make - I truly love country music. -- Sarah Rees Brennan
I love Johnny Cash but I don't love country music that much. -- Ville Valo
What is music. A passion for colonies not a love of country. -- Gertrude Stein
Country music and just music in general really lost a great friend today, -- George Strait
New York City is a notoriously hard market to perform country music in. -- Trace Adkins
Music is in every country and every culture around the world. It's universal. -- Mark Hoppus
The truth of country music, the real stuff, will prevail ..... generation after generation. -- Marty Stuart
I'm a member of a country club, country music is what I love. -- Travis Tritt
I've always wanted to be accepted by country music fans - without lying. -- Jennifer Warnes
I would never do anything that makes the perception of country music worse. -- Joe Nichols
It means so much being a part of country music and the Opry. -- Martina McBride
I felt a kinship with country music, because country has lyrics that tell stories -- Desmond Child
When I need a little advice about Saddam Hussein, I turn to country music. -- George H. W. Bush
Right now it seems like the girls are drawing more attention to country music. -- Miranda Lambert
It was unlikely that anyone had ever heard a black person sing country music. -- Charley Pride
I was the first woman ever named Entertainer of the Year in country music. -- Loretta Lynn
I really love country music, just this idea of three chords and the truth. -- Ragnar Kjartansson
This is not a happy time for this kind of music in this country. -- George Crumb
I don't want to put my fate in country music fans; I'm too stubborn. -- Natalie Maines
I embrace country music because of love, a love of what I came from. -- Dwight Yoakam
This is real, this is your life in a song...this is country music. -- Brad Paisley

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