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A country song is a song about life. -- Alan Jackson
Heartbreak is good fuel for country songs. And cheating. -- Miranda Lambert
Three chords and the truth - that's what a country song is. -- Willie Nelson
Tailgate Blues' is kind of a lyrical masterpiece of a country song. -- Luke Bryan
Sure, I can sing a country song, but so can a lot of people. -- Conway Twitty
Most country songs, certainly all the stuff I've written, are stories driven by characters. -- Dolly Parton
I can write a song in about an hour if it's a simple country song. -- Dolly Parton
A good country song takes a page out of somebody's life and puts it to music. -- Conway Twitty
I would love to make a bunch of country demos and write country songs for really great country singers. -- Kathleen Hanna
The word matters in country music, and it always has. And everybody had lived those words in country songs. -- Brenda Lee
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
I like to sing. I write music. Country songs. You have to if you're in Nashville. It's part of the lease. You sign a lease that says, I will write country songs and pay my rent on time. -- Jim Varney
'Tailgate Blues' is kind of a lyrical masterpiece of a country song. -- Luke Bryan
A good country song taps into strong undercurrents of family, faith, and patriotism. -- George H. W. Bush
A good country song takes a page out of someone's life, and puts it into music. -- Conway Twitty
That's the problem with falling in love. It makes you start talking like a bad country song -- Harlan Coben
You don't have to pound your head after hearing a country song and wonder if you missed something. -- Annette Funicello
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
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.
Well the country songs themselves are three-chord stories, ballads which are mostly sad. If you are already feeling sorry for yourself when you listen to them they will take you to an even sadder place. -- Willie Nelson
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 think the great country songs mixed with some of that bluegrass instrumentation - and surrounding all that with a little bit of a rock vibe and energy - is the kind of music I make. -- Dierks Bentley
I'm listing to music all the time. I have favorite artists. Kid Rock loves the Civil Wars' song 'Barton Hollow.' We both said that's our favorite country song of the year. That knocks me out. -- Bob Seger
One of the things that defines a country song for me is that it's honest. It's not putting on a tuxedo to go eat at the Burger King. It's about a song being emotionally true to itself. -- Kristian Bush
I love country music so much. I love all kinds of music. But when it comes down to it, I'm from East Tennessee, and country melodies and country songs have always just sliced me in the heart. -- Ashley Monroe
Is it me or is President Bush's life starting to sound like a country song. He's from Texas, his dog just died, and it looks like he might lose his job. Next thing, his truck is going to break down. -- Jay Leno
When I hear a great country song, I get chills and I want to cry. You feel something. And just sometimes that magic and the stars line up somehow or another, and it creates something that's really, really, really special. -- Ashley Monroe
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
What songwriting does better than almost anything is empathy - it's incredibly empathetic. The reason people sat around in bars when they were bummed out and listened to country songs is because it made them feel better in the long run. -- Steve Earle
The jazz chord substitutions in a country song... that was another thing that bent people's ears. I guess that my favorites are the unique ones. It's not how fast you play. It's that unique blending of different stuff I'm most proud of. -- Brian Setzer
A lot of country music is sad. I think most art comes out of poverty and hard times. It applies to music. Three chords and the truth - that's what a country song is. There is a lot of heartache in the world. -- Willie Nelson
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I've really been writing a lot of country songs. I used to get criticized for doing a 'Bump & Grind,' then turning around and doing a gospel song. But the truth is I'm glad I have a gift that allows me to switch lanes. -- R. Kelly
I know people who have written big hit country songs that are really kind of terrible songs, but for the rest of their life, they're the guy who wrote that. You've got to be careful; if you don't want that to happen, don't write those songs. -- Jason Isbell
At nineteen, it seems to me, one has a right to be arrogant; time has usually not begun its stealthy and rotten subtractions. It takes away your hair and your jump-shot, according to a popular country song, but in truth it takes away a lot more than that. -- Stephen King
The first time I heard 'Jolene,' I was 12 years old, and it was performed by Jack White. I remember watching that video and forgetting it was from a woman's point of view, and forgetting it was a country song, and forgetting it was originally by Dolly Parton. -- Samuel Larsen
There's no way we could play a country song as well as a country band or a Latin song as well as a Latin band. We could never expect to do that. We just keep doing what we do, what we know how to do. We sound like ourselves. -- Mike Gordon
I love sad songs. They say so much. I love country music but even the happy songs sound really sad. -- Beth Ditto
My favorite songs to sing have always been songs about regret. I don't know why that is, but to me, that's country music. -- Blake Shelton
Then, in that hour of deliverance, my heart spoke. Does not such a country, and such defenders of their country, deserve a song? -- Francis Scott Key
To be 23 and riding the crest of a song sweeping the world country by country is to live an altered and wholly rarefied existence. -- Dan Hill
And I'm the biggest country fan there is, but I'm always a little cautious of a slower song or just a song with subject matter. -- Dierks Bentley
I love to sing big rock and roll songs; I love to sing country-pop stuff, and then I love to sing soft, sadder beautiful songs. -- Elle King
I do think I'm country, but your definition of that word might be different from my definition. In my opinion, country music, the sound of country, has always evolved. But the one thing that has not changed is the story element. And I think country songs are truthful songs about life written by country people. -- Sam Hunt
That's what is so great about being able to record a 13-song album. You can do a very eclectic group of songs. You do have some almost pop songs in there, but you do have your traditional country, story songs. You have your ballads, your happy songs, your sad songs, your love songs, and your feisty songs. -- Reba McEntire
This is real, this is your life in a song...this is country music. -- Brad Paisley
I think of a song in terms of lyrics and stories, and that's what keeps it country for me. -- Sam Hunt
When I wrote the song, The Way It Is, I wanted to move people to take a stand on civil rights in this country. -- Bruce Hornsby
I wrote my first song when I was seven and that was kind of country. Now I'm just like 'No! Why did I play country?' -- Cody Simpson
That internal ache is the starting point of country music. If it's a happy song and I can still feel sad in it? That's my favorite. -- Shane McAnally
The song [The White Trash Song] was not a put down of [ my country cousins ], but a celebration. I wrote that early on, as a teenager. -- Steve Young
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
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
Dirt Road Diaries,' in my mind, is a perfect country guy song. It speaks to the hard-working guy, and I'm excited for the fans to hear that one. -- Luke Bryan
'Dirt Road Diaries,' in my mind, is a perfect country guy song. It speaks to the hard-working guy, and I'm excited for the fans to hear that one. -- Luke Bryan
I could never be a country person, sitting around trees trying to write a song. I would rather be in the middle of society, whether it's growing or crumbling. -- Ric Ocasek

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