I think I never had this grandiose dream of being any…

If I could be a country music star, I'd do it in a heartbeat. I'd hit the road and just jam out.

— Justin Deeley

Roy Acuff was the first country music star to buy a home in a fashionable section of Nashville. The real estate man said, 'Mr.…

— Minnie Pearl

We is in Dream Country,' the BFG said. 'This is where all dreams is beginning.

— Roald Dahl

“Rainie, mythologies take longer to die than people believe. They linger on in a kind of dream country that affects all of you.”

— Neil Gaiman

“You need only to have glimpsed it once to know there's a window out of all this black and sleepless night. Then you must…

— Paul Monette

I cherished the dream of a country embracing all its people.

— Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa

I come from a place, with all due respect, who's never had a music star in hip-hop. So the odds is already against me.

— Wale

I knew what I wanted to be, but I didn't know exactly how to get there. I thought you move to Nashville, you sing…

— Tyler Farr

You don't make this kind of music expecting to have to do TV press and stuff like that. I don't mind doing it, but…

— Jon Hopkins

In America, there are some artists who are more of an image than music; if your star status goes down there, you're finished.

— Sisqo

“Her pulse pounded in her ears. She didn't need to turn around to know he was standing behind her. Most likely with a smirk…

— Rachel Harris

For me, and this may not be everybody, but because I do love country music so much, there's such a feeling of home in…

— Garrett Hedlund

When you're playing country music, you have to tell the truth.

— Christian Kane

I remember people would talk about Country Music like it was this sexist, lame thing. Well, no, because Dolly Parton is writing songs and…

— Neko Case

The reason I was drawn to the Band Perry was because they have a knack for doing rollicking country music that can sound a…

— Phoebe Robinson