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By no means do I want to try to leave country music. That's absolutely where I want to stay.
I always loved country music. But I didn't even know I could sing. I just knew I loved the music.
I like country music. I'm not going to lie. I'm from the South, and I grew up on it. My dad was a country singer-songwriter, so it's in my blood, and I love it.
Me and my partner, Conway Twitty, cleaned up at the 1972 Country Music Association Awards.
I discovered in college that country music could be fun adding some swing to it.
That's one of the reasons I got into country music: because of the craft of that lyric and how much you could put into three minutes.
My wife grew up loving country music, so I always run songs by her whether I wrote it or if somebody pitched it to me.
I wanted to play rocking country music, and when I started out in the late Seventies, it took me a couple of albums to figure out how to do that.
We're trying to do the thing you don't expect out of country music. Which is to say, 'Go see the world.'
'Nashville' songs and country music have always been about storytelling and about the heart and confessionals. They're monologues.
I always respected country music for its narrative and how it's so solid, you can get the picture in your mind.
My first memories of music were country music and Ronnie Milsap. Where I grew up, it was what you listened to. And anything else, you were somewhat out of place.
A lot of people like mainstream country because they're not given another option of country music to like that's modern.
I don't mind putting my heart out there for the audience, and for the country music fans... to be vulnerable with them... that's my job as an artist.
I don't sing country music because I'm not capable of singing other kinds of music; I sing it because I think it's the most beautiful kind of music there is.
Shania Twain brought a whole other fan base to country music with her sound, the way the videos were produced.
I draw inspiration from anything and everybody and that's what country music is to me... real life stories and real life emotions.
I think country music is Lynyrd Skynyrd. I think a lot of the country music is what we do, but I don't think rock & roll is dead at all.
Most of my read on America is through looking through the front windshield of a bus and hanging out with country music fans backstage.
I like that old style of country music - it seems to me that a lot of the modern country music is rehashed rock n' roll.
Country music listeners really like genuineness, and I hope that's what we portray, and I think that's what we do.
What is nice about country music today is that most artists are not trying to do something everybody else is doing. They really are trying to develop their own uniqueness.
It's awesome to have friends among the country music community that you know are looking out for you and that you are excited to get to see on the road.
I guess, somewhere along the line, when we first came out, somebody thought it was a crime to be young and not wear a cowboy hat and sing country music.
We've got great fans that rock and roll won't have, because you can have a one-hit record and country music used to, not so much anymore and you have a fan forever.
Right now it seems like the girls are drawing more attention to country music.
I always want to have the traditional country soul while meeting the new standards of country music.
My nana is a real life mentor, and so is Brad Paisley and a few other idols in country music.
I've spent a lifetime in love with country music.
I definitely listened to country music. I don't think I listened to hair bands as much as I did Bruce Springsteen and U2 and Aerosmith.
I feel like I found a sound that is unique to country music, in my own lane.
I do know where I'm from, and I'm proud to be an Arkansan and to represent country music.
I told all my punk friends, 'If I'm gonna do country music, I'm gonna milk it.'
We work so hard to stay true to country music. People can say they don't like it, but they can't say it's not country.
Listening to country music as a kid allowed my imagination to run wild.
I love being a part of country music. I love going out and... doing things for the first time for country music. I always enjoy that.
The tastes of country music fans are not limited to the narrow range defined by consultants and programmers and record company moguls.
I was into all kinds of music as a teen - country music, because my dad was in a band that played country, and whatever my sister and brother were into.
I'm from Florida, and my family somehow is really into country music. We're all southern in a way: My grandpa hunts, my uncle's, like, a redneck, and we're all NASCAR fans.
One of the most quotable guys ever in country music was Grandpa Jones.
Country music originates with the colloquial, rural aspects of white America. It's really, truly, rural white America's blues.
The passion for doing music, the passion that I have for going out and playing it live - my love for country music is back.
I didn't grow up listening to country music. I pretty much grew up rebelling against country music.
I think Ray Charles did as much as anybody when he did his country music album. Ray Charles broke down borders and showed the similarities between country music and R&B.
That's how I want to be with stuff: I always want to be in country music, first and foremost, forever.
I listen to everything. I sing country music, but I listen to different stuff.
What I loved about country music when I was a kid was the Grand Ole Opry, was 'Hee Haw,' was 360 degrees of entertainment.
The most flattering thing I hear is, 'I didn't think I liked country music before I heard your record.'
If one person feels the way I felt when I first fell in love with country music, then I'm doing my job.
I've seen country music go uptown, like we say, and I'm proud I was there when it happened.