One of the most quotable guys ever in country music was Grandpa Jones. — Marty Stuart Copy Share Image
We need all those divisions of country music, firing on all cylinders. — Marty Stuart Copy Share Image
When country music is doing its job, it reports on the good, bad and indifferent of our human condition. — Marty Stuart Copy Share Image
I think the way country music is set up, we all came from a family background. — Marty Stuart Copy Share Image
I started out in gospel music. A lot of people don't know that I started out in gospel music, and I've never… — Marty Stuart Copy Share Image
The stories in our music form a special viewpoint on the story of America in the 20th Century. — Marty Stuart Copy Share Image
To me, all music that is made under the umbrella of the United States of America is Americana music. — Marty Stuart Copy Share Image
Today the most outlaw thing you can possibly do in Nashville, Tennessee, is play country music. — Marty Stuart Copy Share Image
Rock 'n' roll entertained my head but there was something about country music that touched my heart. — Marty Stuart Copy Share Image
One of the people I heard early on in his career was Eric Church. I liked him and his music. — Marty Stuart Copy Share Image
I got to Nashville on Labor Day weekend in 1972. And the Grand Ole Opry is still there, the Country Music Hall… — Marty Stuart Copy Share Image
It is great to know that the lives and careers of country music's artists are being documented through the Hall of Fame's… — Marty Stuart Copy Share Image
Well, I've always said that country music has always shared a very unique relationship with gospel music - the hooting and hollering,… — Marty Stuart Copy Share Image
One thing that I love about country music, probably more so than any other culture - maybe the blues rivals it -… — Marty Stuart Copy Share Image
He is irreplaceable. Even in death I have no doubt that Johnny Cash will continue to live on as an inspiration to… — Marty Stuart Copy Share Image
I love old-time music, I love country music and I love the American music that we have to offer the world. And… — Marty Stuart Copy Share Image
Country music has taken so many forms, and I've always contended that it does not matter if the casual listener falls in… — Marty Stuart Copy Share Image
I loved the Rolling Stones. I heard a little bit of country music creeping around the edges of some of their songs.… — Marty Stuart Copy Share Image
From watching Lester (Flatt), I learned that it's important to be loyal to the people who made you and bought your music.… — Marty Stuart Copy Share Image
I used to watch those syndicated, black-and-white Country Music Television shows from the '60s with my dad. And all of those people… — Marty Stuart Copy Share Image
In the middle of Mississippi, so many kinds of music came, but it was Nashville and country music that pulled my heart. — Marty Stuart Copy Share Image
I believe in the future of country music, but a future without roots is like a kite with no string. — Marty Stuart Copy Share Image
The truth of country music, the real stuff, will prevail … generation after generation. — Marty Stuart Copy Share Image
Country music as a genre, as an art form, is just as valid out there in the pantheon of the arts as… — Marty Stuart Copy Share Image
When times are good, we have tunes to dance to; when times are tough, we're supposed to talk about it. That's country… — Marty Stuart Copy Share Image
More than anybody in the music industry, the Staple Singers were like family to me. — Marty Stuart Copy Share Image
I've always loved gospel music. Being raised in Mississippi, it was kind of part of the atmosphere down there. — Marty Stuart Copy Share Image
There's every other guitar player and then there's Chet. He transcended musical boundaries for more than fifty years. God only lays Chet… — Marty Stuart Copy Share Image
My local radio station, WHOC, Philadelphia, Mississippi - '1490 on your radio dial, a thousand watts of pure pleasure' - it was… — Marty Stuart Copy Share Image
Growing up in the Sixties, whether it was the Batmobile or the costumes Porter Wagoner wore or the music that came from… — Marty Stuart Copy Share Image
Well, the things that country music is parodied for sometimes - trains, drinking, sin, cheating, redemption, jailhouses, rambling, hoboing, on and on,… — Marty Stuart Copy Share Image
Today the most outlaw thing you can possibly do in Nashville, Tennessee, is play country music. — Marty Stuart Copy Share
To me, all music that is made under the umbrella of the United States of America is Americana music. — Marty Stuart Copy Share
I'm always on the prowl for the kinds of recordings that can inspire and potentially make a difference. — Marty Stuart Copy Share
I saw footage of Johnny Cash and Elvis Presley just hanging out together in Memphis when they were young guys getting started at Sun,… — Marty Stuart Copy Share
There's every other guitar player and then there's Chet. He transcended musical boundaries for more than fifty years. God only lays Chet Atkins on… — Marty Stuart Copy Share
I wish I could have been in the control room at Capitol Studio A listening to the playback of 'Wichita Lineman' the first time… — Marty Stuart Copy Share
Well, I've always said that country music has always shared a very unique relationship with gospel music - the hooting and hollering, you know,… — Marty Stuart Copy Share
Where better than the church for people like me, George Jones and Johnny Cash to go to get ourselves in shape enough to sing… — Marty Stuart Copy Share
There are two kinds of people, there's those who like Johnny Cash, and those that will. — Marty Stuart Copy Share
I don't have many regrets in my life. But I have one. I would have stayed sober all along. — Marty Stuart Copy Share
Nobody in my school knew who Bill Monroe was, or Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs, and barely Johnny Cash. Nobody spoke that language. I… — Marty Stuart Copy Share
Well, I was dedicated to God before I was born by Momma and Daddy, and I was raised in a very traditional Southern Baptist… — Marty Stuart Copy Share
I loved the Rolling Stones. I heard a little bit of country music creeping around the edges of some of their songs. Being a… — Marty Stuart Copy Share
