I've never really been a traditional country kind of guy…

With The Key, it was, I had gone through a divorce and losing my father, and just kinda really reminiscing about how much I…

— Vince Gill

I love all kinds of music, and I would write really traditional country songs and songs that were just really out there, that didn't…

— Sam Hunt

Everywhere I go, people tell me they still love traditional country.

— Porter Wagoner

I'm a traditional country singer and we're always trying to make that a fresh and modern sound. That's always going to be the challenge…

— Joe Nichols

I always want to have the traditional country soul while meeting the new standards of country music.

— Jon Pardi

There's so much that can be learned from French cooking, especially really traditional, more modest meals.

— Antoni Porowski

The thing with me is, I'm from a rap background so I'm not really a traditional singer in that sense.

— Negash Ali

In essence I'm really a very traditional writer. I subscribe to the notion that, ultimately, characters do drive everything else.

— Steve Erickson

I grew up with 'Roseanne'; I kind of adore her and stuff like' Home Improvement', really traditional American stuff.

— Jessie Cave

There's not a person in the United States of America who doesn't love country or have some kind of tie to it.

— Danny Gokey

Going back to the Byrds and 'Sweetheart of the Rodeo,' when country was kind of getting away from the fiddle and steel aspect, it…

— Marty Stuart

Basically, country is my kind of music - the simple melody, the simple lyrics.

— Vera Lynn

I'm a dirt road out in the country kind of person, but I remember thinking, I could live in Chicago.

— Maggie Stiefvater

They've always had a hard time categorizing me, it seems, even though most of my stuff is country of one kind or another -…

— Eddie Rabbitt

I'm mixing country with kind of a modern twist to it.

— Jon Pardi