I enjoy writing songs that could have been written before [my time]. When I feel like I'm tapping into a deep vein in the body of American music, it gives me strength as a writer, like I'm dipping my pen… — Ketch Secor Copy Share Image
I heard Pete Seeger records when I was a kid. I saw Bob Dylan when I was about 12. The first song I ever learned to play was a song by Phil Ochs. — Ketch Secor Copy Share Image
Country music has been empowering to women. Women invented it - it was women singing to their children that built country music. The people… — Ketch Secor Copy Share Image
This indie rock stuff, I mean I like it, too - it pushes all my buttons: sex appeal, dissonance. It's emotive, disenchanted. — Ketch Secor Copy Share Image
Country music is the combination of African and European folk songs coming together and doing a little waltz right here in the American south.… — Ketch Secor Copy Share Image
It’s bound to be one hell of a steel wheelin, railroadin good time…while the western country rolls by and the smoke rises blacker than… — Ketch Secor Copy Share Image
Like anybody else of my era, I listened to a whole lot of Michael Jackson. I guess I was probably inspired by the way… — Ketch Secor Copy Share Image
Because music gets you high, so it makes sense to sing about what else gets you high. — Ketch Secor Copy Share Image
I enjoy writing songs that could have been written before [my time]. When I feel like I'm tapping into a deep vein in the… — Ketch Secor Copy Share Image
It's not very long ago that we were all singing country music. And country music is equally black as it is white and that's… — Ketch Secor Copy Share Image
We never had a girl in the band. Why? Certainly there's some rippin' female players in our kind of music. We have no objection… — Ketch Secor Copy Share Image
Y'all drinking whiskey is probably a gregarious act. When you're not an alcoholic it's pretty fun to drink whiskey. But when you are it's… — Ketch Secor Copy Share Image
![“I enjoy writing songs that could have been written before [my time]. When I feel like I'm tapping into a deep vein in the body of American music, it gives me strength as a writer, like I'm dipping my pen into a deep ink well. That's the folk music tradition. Like Pete Seeger said, 'Everyone's a…” quote by Ketch Secor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/216/ketch-secor-28477_american-music_i-enjoy-writing-songs-that-could-have-be_1676687.jpg)
