Country music has really gotten away from real country songs that connect with people and say something in a unique way. — Porter Wagoner Copy Share Image
What I'm trying to do is tell good stories through music. I think some of the best songs, the best country songs,… — Sam Palladio Copy Share Image
“Renee used to say real life was a bad country song, except bad country songs were believable and real life isn't.” — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
I live country songs every single day of my life, so thank goodness I decided that was my passion! — Lauren Alaina Copy Share Image
I had a whole bunch of bad country songs, so I put 'em all on an album. — Leon Russell Copy Share Image
Most country songs, certainly all the stuff I've written, are stories driven by characters. — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
Single because I've never met a cowboy who is actually like the ones in country songs. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I love researching, whether it's old Western documentaries or old Western country singers or John Ford Westerns, which are heavily influenced by… — Clifton Collins, Jr Copy Share Image
I found when I started getting serious about writing music, that my writing was country songs. It was basically country subject matter,… — Lari White Copy Share Image
What songwriting does better than almost anything is empathy - it's incredibly empathetic. The reason people sat around in bars when they… — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
I love all kinds of music, and I would write really traditional country songs and songs that were just really out there,… — Sam Hunt Copy Share Image
I know people who have written big hit country songs that are really kind of terrible songs, but for the rest of… — Jason Isbell Copy Share Image
'Girl In A Country Song' is basically a song about what it's like to be the girl in modern day country songs… — Maddie Marlow Copy Share Image
When I first got into country, I was trying to do the traditional country thing, and I still have a heart for… — Kane Brown Copy Share Image
“You’ve heard a thousand pop and country songs that prove the point; some fool got his heart broke. Yet that first broken… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
For three months, we kept going into these writing sessions going, 'Man, I just heard this song on the radio, and it… — Maddie Marlow Copy Share Image
There is a long history in country music of songs celebrating drinking and lamenting drinking. Country songs for the most part have… — Chet Atkins Copy Share Image
I love researching, whether it's old Western documentaries or old Western country singers or John Ford Westerns, which are heavily influenced by… — Clifton Collins, Jr Copy Share Image
“I liked music that I didn't have to think about, and most country songs spelled it right out for the listener. The… — Jay Crownover Copy Share Image
People think first love is sweet, and never sweeter than when that first bond snaps. You've heard a thousand pop and country… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I grew up listening to everything. I was in rock n' roll bands and punk bands, and I loved bluegrass and country… — Sturgill Simpson Copy Share Image
I've always thought, "I could probably write one of these country songs and send them to these places and make up this… — Josh Jones Copy Share Image
He [Alan Lomax] started right off trying to find people who could introduce folk songs to city people. He found a young… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
She's Country You boys ever met a real country girl? Talkin, true blue, out in the woods, down home, country girl She's… — Jason Aldean Copy Share Image
Country (shoot) from her cowboy boots to her down home roots She's country, from the songs she plays to the prayers she… — Jason Aldean Copy Share Image
This world would be a much better place if girls were like they are in country songs. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I would love to make a bunch of country demos and write country songs for really great country singers. — Kathleen Hanna Copy Share Image
People go, 'All country songs at the same,' but I find the more everyday you go, the more laser-focused you can on… — CMAT Copy Share Image
I have country songs, I have rock songs, I have songs that don't even sound like songs. — Riff Raff Copy Share Image
Women with country songs for their ringtones think Wal-Mart has a literature section. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The word matters in country music, and it always has. And everybody had lived those words in country songs. — Brenda Lee Copy Share Image
Country songs are like cute little short stories told by nice folks I'd never want to be friends with. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
![“He [Alan Lomax] started right off trying to find people who could introduce folk songs to city people. He found a young actor named Burl Ives and said, "Burl, you know a lot of great country songs learned from your grandmother, don't you know people would love to hear them?" He put on radio…” quote by Pete Seeger](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/59e/pete-seeger-1942_actors_he-alan-lomax-started-right-off-trying-t_1712245.jpg)
