It's a good community, country music, because we get the chance to sit down and... me and Tim McGraw spend a lot… — Luke Bryan Copy Share Image
Country music... doesn't bend notes in the same way, so I suppose it's very English, really. Even though it's been very Americanized,… — Mick Jagger Copy Share Image
I was sort of in denial about doing country for awhile but I sort of grew up and realized who I was,… — Lucy Hale Copy Share Image
I've never shied away from country. 'Karma Chameleon' verges on country. Reggae and country are very closely linked. If you go to… — Boy George Copy Share Image
Grade 9: I was too small for football, too shy for drama class, but I did have a passion for music. And… — Jason McCoy Copy Share Image
My previous visits to Australia created fantastic memories, so I'm definitely looking forward to another visit. It is one of the most… — Joe Nichols Copy Share Image
I feel like Nashville has really embraced me with open arms. I was a little worried at first; you know, everybody knows… — Cassadee Pope Copy Share Image
Kitty Wells was the first and only Queen of Country Music, no matter what they call the rest of us. She was… — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
I'm a hybrid-genre person, which a lot of people find confusing. I grew up listening to American country music and rock n'… — Teddy Thompson Copy Share Image
It's important for me to be respected and to be thought of as authentic and true to myself. So even if country… — Sara Evans Copy Share Image
[Country Music] is the final destination for many punk rockers [...] Rockabilly is the mid-point and then [they] end up at Country… — John C. Reilly Copy Share Image
I've definitely received a lot of support in Nashville; it's a huge music town. I like country music. Like any genre I'm… — Hozier Copy Share Image
I remember always looking forward to listening to country music in the car with my mother, and it wasn't even something I… — James Vincent McMorrow Copy Share Image
“Waylon said it best when he sang to Willy; 'If you see me gettin' smaller, I'm leavin' don't be grievin', just gotta… — Waylon Jennings w/ Lenny Kaye Copy Share Image
I discovered the same thing Gram Parsons did, that soul music and country music are practically identical. Based off of the same… — Justin Townes Earle Copy Share Image
When I want to make my own music, I want to be completely involved. I want to make sure I know exactly… — Lucy Hale Copy Share Image
I believe if you ask any singer who was the greatest country music singer of all time, they would say 'George Jones'.… — Barbara Mandrell Copy Share Image
I remember people would talk about Country Music like it was this sexist, lame thing. Well, no, because Dolly Parton is writing… — Neko Case Copy Share Image
Roy Acuff was the first country music star to buy a home in a fashionable section of Nashville. The real estate man… — Minnie Pearl Copy Share Image
I think The Eagles single-handedly destroyed country music - well, now, country music has been killed by rap crossovers, so it's hard… — John Doe Copy Share Image
Country music fans are the best everywhere and they've always made me feel like I'm at home, no matter what zip code… — Trace Adkins Copy Share Image
I think it's pretty stupid to write off an entire genre of anything. It's one thing to say 'I don't like country… — Matt Besser Copy Share Image
I think country music is about honesty. Any art has to have honesty to start with, as the core of it. I… — Tim McGraw Copy Share Image
“Now let me ask you all a question, what's more pathetic and sad to you? A bunch of poor black people who… — T.J. Kirk 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
With The Key, it was, I had gone through a divorce and losing my father, and just kinda really reminiscing about how… — Vince Gill Copy Share Image
Poetry and painting have arrived to their perfection in our own country; music is yet but in its nonage [immaturity], a forward… — Henry Purcell Copy Share Image
Country music is different because we [musicians] are all actually happy for each other. We're all friends. It's a little family. So… — Miranda Lambert Copy Share Image
I think I first realized I wanted to be in country music and be an artist when I was 10. And I… — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
Taylor deserves it. I don't think there is anyone with half a brain that would say otherwise. She has done a lot… — Blake Shelton Copy Share Image
Musically, I actually grew up listening to country music as a kid, like George Strait, Alan Jackson... all those guys. So it… — Austin Mahone Copy Share Image
For me, country music symbolized freedom and the joys of life... roaming the country, experiencing the joys as well as the heartbreaks.… — George Takei Copy Share Image
If I'm opening up for George Jones or playing a complete honky-tonk, I do true country music. But if it's a complete… — Hank Williams III Copy Share Image
I definitely see the genre opening up a lot more. I don't know if black people don't want to get into country… — Kane Brown Copy Share Image
People get strange about whether you've written your own songs, which seems really stupid considering that, especially in Country Music, it's about… — Neko Case Copy Share Image
It doesn't matter if you stick the name 'bluegrass' on it. I think people call things bluegrass that I wouldn't necessarily call… — Ricky Skaggs Copy Share Image
Do you like it when the meter's jumpin'? You like the sound of them horses runnin'? Do you like it when the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
CNT was a good fit for 'Nashville,' and 'Nashville' was a great fit for CNT, and so timing was right. You know,… — Chris Carmack Copy Share Image
Country music is just country. It's going to shift around a little bit, doing some different instrumentations, different production styles. But it… — Steven Curtis Chapman Copy Share Image
My Grammy nomination didn't come from hip-hop, didn't come from R&B, didn't come from rock - it came from my success in… — Jimmie Allen Copy Share Image
![“[Country Music] is the final destination for many punk rockers [...] Rockabilly is the mid-point and then [they] end up at Country [...] There's purity to that music and I think that appeals to a lot of punk rock people - the precision, the purity, and the directness of Country Music.” quote by John C. Reilly](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/3e7/john-c-reilly-3317_appeals_country-music-is-the-final-destination-f_1724134.jpg)
![“Poetry and painting have arrived to their perfection in our own country; music is yet but in its nonage [immaturity], a forward Child, which gives hope of what it may be hereafter in England, when the masters of it shall find more Encouragement.” quote by Henry Purcell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/8ce/henry-purcell-71162_children_poetry-and-painting-have-arrived-to-thei_1608889.jpg)
![“Country music is different because we [musicians] are all actually happy for each other. We're all friends. It's a little family. So if you don't win [an award], usually one of your friends does. So it's kind of a cool thing. I think it's the only genre of music to have that camaraderie.” quote by Miranda Lambert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/1d4/miranda-lambert-2170_awards_country-music-is-different-because-we-mu_2965718.jpg)
