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Even though I'm a pop singer, I really have more the life of a country singer. -- Kelly Clarkson
What qualifies me to tell people how to act or what to think? I'm Charley Pride, country singer. Period. -- Charley Pride
I'm a traditional country singer and we're always trying to make that a fresh and modern sound. That's always going to be the challenge with me. -- Joe Nichols
I know that a Christmas tree farm in Pennsylvania is about the most random place for a country singer to come from, but I had an awesome childhood. -- Taylor Swift
What you need to know about me is that I always just wanted to be a country singer. I didn't choose the path of television or being on magazine covers. -- Blake Shelton
I'm a country singer. I love all kinds of music, but country is where my loyalty lies. That's just me and what I do, and I'm not going to change it. -- George Strait
I do think it's probably true to a certain extent that you tend to sing music that fits your voice. If you're Lou Reed, you're unlikely to become a country singer. -- Teddy Thompson
I didn't say I wasn't gonna do rockabilly. I just said I ain't gonna sing no song that ain't a country song. I won't be known as anything but a country singer. -- Buck Owens
When I finally put my guitar in the case the last time, I want to be remembered just as a singer, not as a country singer or pops singer - just a singer. -- Eddy Arnold
My dad and grandpa were in the army and as a country singer you're constantly playing at military bases all across the country and meeting soldiers and their families and hearing their stories. -- Dierks Bentley
I'm not really a country singer, although I did make a couple albums and love its simple, straight-from-the-heart approach, but I have always sung a lot of jazz, show tunes, pop tunes, gospel and blues. -- Dinah Shore
We're definitely a hodgepodge of influences. Mine, most heavily, would be Southern rock - the Allman Brothers, Lynyrd Skynyrd and stuff like that. Hillary is more from the country side - her mom is Linda Davis, a country singer. Dave, he's a big fan of the Eagles and like that. -- Charles Kelley
When people ask me who my favorite country singer is, I say, 'You mean besides George Jones?' -- Johnny Cash
I came from an upper-middle class home, which is always a hard cross for a country singer to bear. -- Kinky Friedman
I would love to make a bunch of country demos and write country songs for really great country singers. -- Kathleen Hanna
There's no way to be able to tell what it's like to be a country singer until you're walking in the shoes. -- Tanya Tucker
There's nothing wrong with wearing a hat and cowboy boots if you want to be a country singer. But when you open your mouth, have something new to say. Have your own style. -- Pam Tillis
I like country music. I'm not going to lie. I'm from the South, and I grew up on it. My dad was a country singer-songwriter, so it's in my blood, and I love it. -- Kim Dickens
I love researching, whether it's old Western documentaries or old Western country singers or John Ford Westerns, which are heavily influenced by family values, which so many of these country songs are related to. -- Clifton Collins, Jr.
I don't feel like God called me to be a Gospel singer. He didn't call me to be a Christian singer, he called me to be a country singer, and I just happen to be a Christian. -- Josh Turner
I'm not a jazz singer, blues singer or country singer. I'm a singer that can sing rhythm & blues, that can sing jazz, that can sing country. There's a big difference. In other words, I'm not a specialist. -- Ray Charles
I'm from Michigan, but I'm just as country as anyone else. Maybe I don't have the speaking voice of most country singers, but it is what I love. It's how I've always sung, and it's what I grew up on. -- Jana Kramer
The Grand Ole Opry, to a country singer, is what Yankee Stadium is to a baseball player. Broadway to an actor. It's the top of the ladder, the top of the mountain. You don't just play the Opry; you live it. -- Bill Anderson
I think one thing you could probably say for all my albums is that they're all pretty eclectic pop. There's always a little bit of urban influence, some dance, a little bit of country, singer-songwriter, pop-rock. I like everything! On every album you can find that. -- Kelly Clarkson
I was signed to RCA to be a country singer. -- Ronnie Milsap
I want to produce a country album for a country singer. -- B.o.B
I'm not just a big-haired redhead country singer who dresses flamboyantly, has this wicked sense of humor and wears rhinestones. -- Naomi Judd
As a country singer, there is only one place you dream of playing in your lifetime, and that is the Grand Ole Opry House. -- Blake Shelton
Undeniably, I'm a country singer; I'm a country songwriter. But I feel like I make country music for people who like country music and for people who don't. -- Kacey Musgraves
My mom wanted to be a country singer, too, so country was always being played. And my girlfriends and I used to go to concerts, like Brad Paisley, in middle school and high school. -- Jana Kramer
I don't feel like God called me to be a gospel singer. He didn't call me to be a Christian singer; he called me to be a country singer, and I just happen to be a Christian. -- Josh Turner
I lost my brother in a car wreck when I was 14 years old. When I decided I wanted to be a country singer, my dad always told me, 'Son, you should write a song about your brother.' -- Blake Shelton
I can only say the first thing that pops into my mind is I remember, years ago, seeing kind of a has-been country singer working - when I first moved to Nashville - in a bar in a Holiday Inn. -- Jimmy Buffett
I'm a country singer, and I'm comfortable with that. But why does a country singer have to play only on country radio or a rock singer only on a rock station? I still don't understand why it's that big a deal. -- Steve Earle
I'm not Waylon Jennings, but I do a fair imitation of him, and a few other country greats, like Willie Nelson. It would be great to sink my teeth into a project where I could play a country singer. I'm like an old cowboy. -- Todd Lowe
My father was an aspiring country singer and songwriter. He just didn't get that off that ground. I was afraid, very tentative to do anything with music for years. I didn't tell him I was playing in bands when I was away from home, because it had been such an unpleasant experience and a letdown for him. -- Ronnie Dunn
The thing is: in order to reach an agreement, to reach that balance, sometimes it is sort of like that old Rhinestone Cowboy lyric, 'There'll be a load of compromisin' on the road to my horizon.' For those of you who were too young, or don't recall the song, made famous by country singer Glen Campbell, it is your loss. -- Bart Chilton
Love Don't Let Me Down,' which is the original title of 'Country Strong,' was just as difficult emotionally as 'Tron' was physically. I play a country singer that basically gets on tour with Gwyneth Paltrow's character, who is one of the biggest country stars out there, and she's fallen down too many times and it's an intense emotional story. -- Garrett Hedlund
I'd really love to play a real-life country and western singer. -- David Keith
My fame came from my success as a country music singer. -- Mindy McCready
My fame came from my success as a country music singer, -- Mindy McCready
I should have been a country-western singer. After all, I'm older than most western countries. -- George Burns
My brother is the lead singer of The Torn, and my parents are in a country duo. -- Sheridan Smith
My dad used to play drums in a country band, and my mom is an incredible singer. -- Jonny Lang
Im truly the best singer in the country. My kind of pop music is the best in Spain. -- Marta Sanchez
If I wanted to be a pop singer, I would have done that 20 years ago. I love country music. -- Chely Wright
My mother's a singer and my mother's father is a singer, and everyone on both sides are all country-western bluegrass musicians. -- Brandi Carlile
There's a new hit rock group or singer every five minutes, but with country music, you have one hit and those people love you forever. -- Kenny Rogers
I always know I'm a country singer, and regardless of where I've fallen into different places with my music, I know that, really, I'm a country singer. -- Ronnie Milsap
I didn't get into music to become a blues musician, or a country musician. I'm a singer-songwriter. In my book that means I get to do whatever I want. -- Justin Townes Earle
I dropped the 'Bundy' with my country music because I wanted it to be two separate things: There's me as a songwriter and a country singer, and there's me as a Broadway performer. -- Laura Bell Bundy

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