Country music Quotes · Page 25

I grew up listening to everything. I was in rock n' roll bands and punk bands, and I loved bluegrass and country…

— Sturgill Simpson

For me there are two types of country: There's the shoot-yourself-in-the-head country, and then there's really good country music.

— Avicii

I've spent a lifetime in love with country music.

— Blake Shelton

My dad was a huge country music fan, but he also had a band and he sang. So he'd listen to a…

— Martina McBride

I got offered publishing deals to write country music, but it was not what I wanted to do.

— Natalie Prass

I always wanted to do country music because I'm just such a country music fan. And I feel like 'three chords and…

— Jelly Roll

Kitty Wells was the first and only Queen of Country Music, no matter what they call the rest of us. She was…

— Dolly Parton

Country music is about new love and it's about old love.

— Jeff Foxworthy

I grew up only singing country. I did listen to like Debbie Gibson and other pop music, but I would only sing…

— Tonya Mitchell

I got to where I couldn't listen to country radio. Country music is supposed to have steel and fiddle. When I hear…

— Gretchen Wilson

Nashville may be famed for its country music, but this may well be the capital of rock and roll music in the…

— Paul Stanley

I started to write a lot of ballads that were sultry and had a Norah Jones-for-country kind of feel. I wanted to…

— Laura Bell Bundy

Be in Nashville if you want to be in country music, because everybody that can help you is here.

— Gabby Barrett

“Music may be his passion -- but this, right here, was his dream.”

— Rachel Harris

The storytelling in country music is so powerful.

— Jessica Mauboy

“Miranda raised her eyebrows. Apparently she hadn't figured me for a country music fan. I liked her for that.”

— Rick Riordan

Tellin' myself I'm gonna be alright without you baby, is a waste of time.

— Hunter Hayes

If you listen to all of my records, they all have a little part of me. So there's a part of me…

— Sara Evans

Recording in Nashville was absolutely essential to get the sound, the musicians, the atmosphere, the warmth... There are just cult places like…

— Roch Voisine

[My parents] worked hard all week long, and the way they celebrated and rejoiced in life was by making music on weekends.…

— Rodney Crowell

Ain't gonna beg you to stay Ain't gonna ask you what's wrong Ain't no reason running after something already gone Take off…

— Luke Bryan

That's one wonderful thing about country music - it shifts, ebbs, and flows stylistically, unlike pop music.

— Steven Curtis Chapman

I've never known a day of my life that I didn't want to sing country music. I really did always know that…

— Carly Pearce

In terms of exploring an identity in the country music world, what I realized very quickly was that there are people who…

— Chris Carmack

I used to watch those syndicated, black-and-white Country Music Television shows from the '60s with my dad. And all of those people…

— Marty Stuart