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[Europe has] this tradition of self revelation in popular music. We have it here - it's called Country Western Music... I think that's where the deeper and more complex subjects are treated. -- Leonard Cohen
I'm not crazy about country-western music. But the lyrics are good. -- Alice Cooper
I should have been a country-western singer. After all, I'm older than most western countries. -- George Burns
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
Tennessee is a very country-type state. Maybe I can practice on some type of country-western dance where they'll know what I'm doing. -- Chad Ochocinco
I'm not crazy about country-western music. But the lyrics are good. "I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy" is pretty clever. -- Alice Cooper
I think what we need is a more welcoming mode from the people who put on a hundred million country-western shows on television. How about a monthly jazz show? -- Sonny Rollins
In the United States, you can put on a cowboy hat and join the country-western neighborhood. If you're down below 14th Street in New York City, that's bohemian; that's left-wing. -- David Lee Roth
I was terrified, terrified in Songwriter, because there I was, New York Jewish girl, singing country-western onstage with Kris Kristofferson and Willie Nelson. I mean, forget it. I was so terrified. -- Lesley Ann Warren
So I learnt a few country western songs, I bought a chord book, and right away I started writing my own stuff, which nobody else did that, I don't know why. -- John Fahey
I'm a big fan of gospel music, and you cannot be a fan of rock and roll, you cannot be a fan of country western music, and you can't really be a fan of jazz without listening to a lot of music that's religious. -- Penn Jillette
Sometimes I lie awake at night and think about that little red-haired girl... I don't ever want to forget her face, but if I don't forget her face, I'll go crazy... How can I remember the face I can't forget? Suddenly I'm writing country western music! -- Charles M. Schulz
I remember growing up always loving the guitar. I used to love to watch the people play on the Country Western shows on TV. My folks told me that when I was just a toddler, I used to pretend I was playing a guitar on a toothpick. -- Carl Wilson
From folk to tribal to Cab Calloway, Cole Porter, Gershwin to the Rolling Stones, whose first record was all covers, to country-western, bebop, blues, and even the referencing in classic hip hop to cliched love ballads of the '80s or whatever - that is kinda gone, and that's just terrifying to me. -- Cat Power
Only two to three per cent of an audience is interested in words and pays attention to lyrics; most of the rest of it is about image or the beat or the sound, or else it's a tribal thing - country & western, rap, heavy metal, with historical folk rock off in some kind of cult. -- Al Stewart
I'd really love to play a real-life country and western singer. -- David Keith
There's only two kinds of music I don't like... Country and Western. -- Bobby Heenan
There's only two kinds of music I don't like....Country and Western. -- Bobby Heenan
Western civilisation came to this country in 1788 and I'm proud of that -- Tony Abbott
It would be a mistake to export western management to a friendly country. -- W. Edwards Deming
I had been raised on country and western in Missouri. But gospel was great. -- Steve Cropper
Shania Twain ... has done more for country and western than heartbreak and whiskey combined. -- Rex Murphy
Haiti is the poorest country in the western hemisphere; some say the poorest in the world. -- Helen Fisher
I think the only music I didn't listen to was country and western, and that holds to this day. -- David Bowie
There is no western, capitalistic country in which the conditions of the masses have not improved in an unprecedented way. -- Ludwig von Mises
Skiffle was blues featuring a washboard and acoustic instruments. It encompassed blues, with elements of folk, jazz, and, at times, American country-and-western music. -- Van Morrison
The present aristocracy of western culture, at the moment when it most clearly dominates the world, is being imitated rapidly and successfully in every eastern country. -- John Desmond Bernal
The present aristocracy of western culture, at the moment when it most clearly dominates the world, is being imitated rapidly and successfully in every eastern country." -- John Desmond Bernal
If there is one country and its people that have contributed most to western civilisation's man-made world continuously for the last 2000 years, it must surely be Italy. -- Harry Seidler
I listen to a lot of really old western and country music. Theres a lot of cool stuff in there all the heartbreak of the country darkness. -- Theophilus London
I listen to a lot of really old western and country music. There's a lot of cool stuff in there... all the heartbreak of the country darkness. -- Theophilus London
More than any other in Western Europe, Britain remains a country where a traveler has to think twice before indulging in the ordinary food of ordinary people. -- Joseph Lelyveld
Ninety countries still hold on to capital punishment, and, sadly, one of these is the United States, the only Western industrialized country to practice this barbaric punishment. -- Antoinette Bosco
[Barack Obama] believes climate change is a bigger threat to our country than these barbaric Islamic terrorists that have as their organizing principle the destruction of Western civilization. -- Jeb Bush
There are tens, perhaps hundreds of millions of people living in poverty and danger who might readily seek to enter a Western country if the opportunity is there. -- Tony Abbott
Germany is probably the richest country in Western Europe. Yet they wouldn't take any television with Duke and Ella, their reaction being that people weren't interested in it. -- Norman Granz
Begun as a girl from a little country town in central western Queensland, inspired by noble ideas of justice, about fairness, about making the world a better place. -- Quentin Bryce
Ian and Sylvia, who, when you got right down to it, were essentially country and western singers. I just recorded his Four Strong Winds. It's a wonderful song. -- Dave Van Ronk
I wouldn't want to cover a Hank Williams song in a country-western way. It doesn't occur to me instinctually to re-create productions. I'm interested in re-creating songs. Putting different clothes on them. -- M. Ward

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