I am from the country, and I grew up mostly influenced by…

I grew up in Mountain Pine, Arkansas. You get no more country than where I grew up. But I also grew up in the…

— Bobby Bones

I used to say that I was making "country music," because it was the quickest, easiest answer. I'm obviously heavily influenced by country music.…

— Caitlin Rose

One day, I'd like to tackle a biopic. I grew up very influenced by Josephine Baker, Billie Holiday, and Nina Simone.

— Zazie Beetz

I grew up influenced by different cultures, sounds, feelings, emotions, and I want Premiere Classe to be a representation of that.

— DJ Snake

I was really only around country music on the radio, and I think because I grew up so close to Atlanta, and R&B was…

— Sam Hunt

We were so influenced not only by country music but by the rock bands of the '80s. Our focus was to bring in something…

— Jay DeMarcus

Of course Germany's media are heavily influenced by the country on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean.

— Vladimir Putin

There's a lot of rednecks in the country where I grew up.

— Dolly Parton

I've been an actor for so long, and a moviegoer ever since I can remember, because the country that I grew up in didn't…

— Richard E. Grant

“Germany was my country where I grew up rooted.”

— Claudia Poser

To me, England is past its sell-by date. It's not the country I grew up in.

— Vinnie Jones

I'm a big fan of country, and I grew up listening to a lot of country. My old man was into country. A lot…

— Uncle Kracker

“We needed coffee but we'd got ourselves convinced that the later we left it the better it would taste, and, as the country grew…

— Matthew Welton

The very first show I ever saw was The Judds, and that influenced me to not play country music.

— Matt Skiba

I do think I'm country, but your definition of that word might be different from my definition. In my opinion, country music, the sound…

— Sam Hunt