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Shaft' is a great country song.
Unconditional love goes a long way.
My mother named me for Marty Robbins.
Pop Staples was one of my true mentors.
Well, it's hard not to love Hank Williams!
I make no apology about being a hillbilly.
I never claimed to be a great photographer.
People shouldn't be punished for their wisdom.
Being sober and clear-eyed changes everything.
I've always been a sucker for a truck driving song.
The first Nudie suits I bought were two hundred bucks.
I can't remember when I didn't have an instrument around.
Sun Studios was where so much of American music exploded from.
The history of country music is as important as any other art form.
The only two jobs I ever had were with Lester Flatt and Johnny Cash.
We need all those divisions of country music, firing on all cylinders.
One of the most quotable guys ever in country music was Grandpa Jones.
I've been promoting the idea of a Jimmie Rodgers documentary for years.
Coming from bluegrass background, I totally understand family harmonies.
I'm really taken by the fact that my photographs live on somebody's wall.
Every time I hear a Garth Brooks record I tend to want to hear James Taylor.
When I was 12 years old I discovered Bill Monroe and my dad got me a mandolin.
I think the way country music is set up, we all came from a family background.
The Ryman and the Grand Ole Opry, if you're a Southern boy, is just a way of life.
More than anybody in the music industry, the Staple Singers were like family to me.
Doing a thing call the Hillbilly Rock, some say it came from Elvis down in Tennessee.
My main electric guitar belonged to Clarence White, the great guitarist for the Byrds.
There are two kinds of people, there's those who like Johnny Cash, and those that will.
When we lost Glen Campbell, we lost an American original. We also lost a really good man.
The first picture of me that I know of was me in the crib wearing a pair of cowboy boots.
If you look back into the Superlatives' body of work, we've always included instrumentals.
I don't have many regrets in my life. But I have one. I would have stayed sober all along.
The truth of country music, the real stuff, will prevail ..... generation after generation.
The stories in our music form a special viewpoint on the story of America in the 20th Century.
Today the most outlaw thing you can possibly do in Nashville, Tennessee, is play country music.
From the first time I played with Lester Flatt, I sensed an extreme amount of history around me.
I believe in the future of country music, but a future without roots is like a kite with no string.
There was a junk store in Nashville on 8th Avenue, where I bought Patsy Cline's train case for $75.
Rock 'n' roll entertained my head but there was something about country music that touched my heart.
To me, all music that is made under the umbrella of the United States of America is Americana music.
Walking into the Ryman with Lester Flatt was the equivalent of walking into the Vatican with the pope.
I'm always on the prowl for the kinds of recordings that can inspire and potentially make a difference.
When I pick up Hank Williams' guitar or that first suit that Johnny Cash wore on stage, it empowers me.
When country music is doing its job, it reports on the good, bad and indifferent of our human condition.
I figure I'm a mandolin player first and foremost, and everything else I've accomplished is just a scam.
When I started making some paychecks, I didn't invest in stocks and bonds - I invested in American culture.
I've always loved gospel music. Being raised in Mississippi, it was kind of part of the atmosphere down there.
Well, the first band was at nine, and I was on the road when I was 12 with the Sullivan Family Gospel Singers.
I don't know how it got around that I play a lot of instruments. I really don't. I play the guitar and the mandolin.
In the middle of Mississippi, so many kinds of music came, but it was Nashville and country music that pulled my heart.