Country music is the combination of African and European folk songs coming together and doing a little waltz right here in the American south. They came together at some cotillion, and somebody snuck a black person into the room, and… — 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 important to recognize. — 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 think country music is a champion of women. That stuff coming out of Nashville now wants to see a woman looking good in… — Ketch Secor Copy Share Image
It's true that bluegrass is a virtuosic form and asks that of its performer. Old-time music is older rawer and purer. It's less stylized.… — Ketch Secor Copy Share Image
We weren't straight-A students. We didn't start playing until we were teenagers, and we started playing rock and roll and punk rock - power… — 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)
