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The music that I've made in the past has had strong contemporary country roots, but I think moving on in music, I will branch out from that a bit. -- Jennette McCurdy
I don't ever worry about whether I'm being true to my country roots. My country roots were adopted. I never worry about what I can do and what I should do. I just do what I want to do. -- Emmylou Harris
I love music, that it changes so much, but I also want to keep a bit of the country roots to make it country. I don't want to go too far away from it, or I would do pop music. -- Jana Kramer
All my roots are still in the prarie country of the Middle West. -- James Norman Hall
Roots are not in landscape or a country, or a people, they are inside you. -- Isabel Allende
We have our roots in country, and that's our foundation, but we pull from a lot. -- Dave Haywood
The native music of North America, the original-roots music of this country, is also the underworld music of this country. -- Robbie Robertson
Loyalty to the true, core values and roots of democracy is what makes a true patriot, not loyalty to a symbol of the country. -- Cindy Sheehan
I also grew up on a farm in east Tennessee, so my roots are just naturally super southern, so I've always had that southern country lifestyle. -- Kelsea Ballerini
Writers, especially those of us with roots in other countries, are rarely left to ourselves. We are asked to declare our allegiances, or they are determined for us. -- Dinaw Mengestu
Chicago is seriously my favorite city in the country. People have roots here, which is nice. When you go to Los Angeles, no one is actually from Los Angeles. -- Bill Rancic
The reason why Botswana has done very well is because it's the only black African country which went back to its roots and built upon its own indigenous institutions. -- George Ayittey
I'll be a Quebecker-Canadian. I'm from Quebec, and every time I go to a country, I say that. It's my roots, my origins, and it's the most important thing to me. -- Celine Dion
Being married to a daughter of India is a natural complement of my being in this country for 30 years. My roots are very much in this country, even though I remain a Westerner. -- Francois Gautier
I base my roots and history in old blues, old country and old bluegrass, and I like rock 'n' roll, and somehow it all came together, and that is what I am playing now. -- Tyler Hilton
I grew up between the two world wars and received a rather solid general education, the kind middle class children enjoyed in a country whose educational system had its roots dating back to the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy. -- George Andrew Olah
I was writing country songs, but I wasn't listening to country yet. I grew up on a farm in East Tennessee, so my roots are country, you know? But I didn't know where those songs came from or where they fit. -- Kelsea Ballerini
I remember 'Roots' growing up and the cultural impact it had on the country. Watching 'Roots' was not the cool remove of reading about slavery in a book or hearing about it in class. It became something that swept people along. -- John Ridley
Not many countries establish a prize for peace. The Seoul Peace Prize has its roots in the 1988 Summer Olympics when this country opened its doors to people and athletes from more than 160 countries. Korea did so in part because it believes in the power of sports for peace and development. -- Ban Ki-moon
I was impressed by a program called New Roots, which helps women refugees from countries in conflict to start new lives in the U.S. by farming. They are trained in a four-year program, at the end of which New Roots helps them find their own land to farm and live on. -- Rebecca Pidgeon
He sprang from the grass roots of the country clubs of America. -- Alice Roosevelt Longworth
There were no guarantees that country music, whose roots were in the South, were ready for Charley Pride. -- Charley Pride
Country music artists are staying true to their roots, keeping it country but throwing a little bit of rock flair in there which I think is a good thing. -- Jason Aldean

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