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I don't limit my taste. There's some jazz that I like and there's some opera. I've been listening to what was essentially country music, but it crossed over to rock.
In country music, there are certain female artists, like Gretchen Wilson, where you're going to find lesbians because they're responding to that more aggressive side.
Country fans need to support country music by buying albums and concert tickets for traditional artists or the music will just fade away. And that would be really sad.
And obviously, when I started out, I had a little bit more curiosity than some, and went seeking out the original artists, or in some cases searching up country music.
Is it racist to prefer country music over the blues? Or is it simply a classic case of tribal antipathy toward the unfamiliar, in favor of gravitating to what you know?
The whole world has changed much since the '80's. In the united States, rap music and country music dominate radio and that certainly wasn't the case in the early '80's.
In New York, my dad raised me to listen to everything like hip-hop, rock and country music. When I moved to Dallas, I started listening to whatever I wanted to listen to.
Country music is the song that speaks to the American condition. It's middle America. Eight out of 10 people. Maybe it's not the No. 1 choice, but they listen to country.
Country music, the music of the white rural working class, has often been mocked by elitists whose understanding of power and art was shaped at expensive private schools.
I'm a huge country music fan, and there are so many girls that I look up to, especially Carrie Underwood, which everyone knows because I've shouted it out for a while now.
In the music business, especially the country music business, every 10 years or so you're going to have this changing of the guard, this wave of new artists that comes in.
First and foremost, I am most proud of how 'Hee Haw' did its part to help pave the way for country music to burst from its regional roots to remarkable worldwide popularity.
Baseball fans! Good lord! I feel like sports fans get mad at you easier than country music fans. It scares me. I'm glad that country fans don't get mad every time I mess up.
Country music has always sort of been country music.
I love country music, blues, and punk, and one day I might make those kinds of records.
I'm all about showing people what I can really do in country music. Give me a mic and let me perform, and I'll prove it to you.
A lot of my fans, and a lot of country music fans, they still wear boots.
A lot of people that only like country music, they're not fans of mine.
To me, country music is like the blues, but it's something very hip and - I don't want to say commercial - but it's very worldly and good listening.
Country music has to evolve in order to survive.
I've grown up with country music. I love how real everybody is, not just the artists, but the fans.
I was one of the very first people to ever do a video in country music.
Country music has room for a little bit of everything.
I'm the first, youngest person in country music to sing at Coachella.
You don't change country music; it changes you.
We're kind of like the Kurt Cobain of country music in a way.
I've always listened to country music. I wanted Hootie to become a country band at first, but I was outvoted.
The storytelling in country music is so powerful.
Country music tells stories, and I've always loved to tell stories.
The artists in country music who stopped having hits are the ones who were led into something that wasn't them.
Country music is me, it's what I've grown up with, and it's what I do.
Country music is one of those places where we support each other and prop each other up.
True country music is honesty, sincerity, and real life to the hilt.
I love country music because it's honest - and I'm a terrible liar.
Dylan's relationship with Johnny Cash was the biggest influence on Nashville in my lifetime - they opened up country music.
It isn't reasonable to expect that everyone in the world is a country music fan. Not yet, anyway.
I love country music. I don't ever feel restricted by the genre.
Country music has always been about as close to R&B as you can possibly get. We're storytellers.
I get paid to lie to people as an actor. Country music is the one area that I don't lie. I tell the truth.
Most people don't know I grew up singing country music; that's what I sang right up until I did 'Idol.'
I didn't think I liked country music. Then I got into Garth Brooks.
I'm not trying to claim I'm a country singer, but I do love country music.
We need all those divisions of country music, firing on all cylinders.
I'll never quit playing country music, or at least acknowledging it, always, as the cornerstone of what I am.
I would never do anything that makes the perception of country music worse.
People do look at it as an insult that I say I don't listen to country music, which cracks me up.
I never gave up on country music because I knew what I was doing was not that bad.
Be in Nashville if you want to be in country music, because everybody that can help you is here.
Women in country music have always been a staple and always been important.
I listened to country music my whole life. I started writing music when I was a teenager. It all came out country.