I'd really love to play a real-life country and western…

I should have been a country-western singer. After all, I'm older than most western countries.

— George Burns

My mother had been a country and western singer but when she moved out to Hollywood found it very difficult to get work so…

— Morgan Brittany

Country and western is ignored by the intellectuals. They don't look at it as an art form. They think it's just somebody sitting on…

— Ricky Skaggs

Only two to three per cent of an audience is interested in words and pays attention to lyrics; most of the rest of it…

— Al Stewart

I'm a big fan of gospel music, and you cannot be a fan of rock and roll, you cannot be a fan of country…

— Penn Jillette

I'm not crazy about country-western music. But the lyrics are good.

— Alice Cooper

In the Navy, you're around a lot of people from different parts of the country. They've got different accents, different upbringings. I learned to…

— Charlie Murphy

I guess what I like is mostly country & western or else stuff that has a real blues feel to it.

— Sam Shepard

Timing has a lot to do with the outcome of a rain dance.

— Anonymous

Country artists, I met a lot of them when I was five, six years old. I had an uncle who was a country and…

— Rick Danko

I think the only music I didn't listen to was country and western, and that holds to this day.

— David Bowie

Tennessee is a very country-type state. Maybe I can practice on some type of country-western dance where they'll know what I'm doing.

— Chad Ochocinco

“In the end, he turned the radio on, and fell asleep to the sounds of either country or Western—he could never work out which…

— Claire North

From folk to tribal to Cab Calloway, Cole Porter, Gershwin to the Rolling Stones, whose first record was all covers, to country-western, bebop, blues,…

— Cat Power

Sometimes I lie awake at night and think about that little red-haired girl... I don't ever want to forget her face, but if I…

— Charles M. Schulz