Marty Stuart

The black church in the South is the home of rock & roll.

— Marty Stuart

Well, it's hard not to love Hank Williams!

— Marty Stuart

I never claimed to be a great photographer.

— Marty Stuart

I love playing music with Duane Eddy.

— Marty Stuart

Shaft' is a great country song.

— Marty Stuart

I've always been a sucker for a truck driving song.

— Marty Stuart

Unconditional love goes a long way.

— Marty Stuart

I make no apology about being a hillbilly.

— Marty Stuart

It's hard for a country performer to make a living in a Beatles society.

— Marty Stuart

One of the people I heard early on in his career was Eric Church. I liked him and his music.

— Marty Stuart

When I started making some paychecks, I didn't invest in stocks and bonds - I invested in American culture.

— Marty Stuart

There are two kinds of people, there's those who like Johnny Cash, and those that will.

— Marty Stuart

Well, the first band was at nine, and I was on the road when I was 12 with the Sullivan Family Gospel Singers.

— Marty Stuart

Doing a thing call the Hillbilly Rock, some say it came from Elvis down in Tennessee.

— Marty Stuart

I'm always on the prowl for the kinds of recordings that can inspire and potentially make a difference.

— Marty Stuart

Anybody that looks at my photography, it blows my mind because it's my last hobby.

— Marty Stuart

When I was 5 years old, I got my first record. It was 'Flatt & Scruggs' Greatest Hits.' The second was 'The…

— Marty Stuart

There's the chart -- and there's the heart. And it's great when they both line up. But you better follow your heart,…

— Marty Stuart

Going back to the Byrds and 'Sweetheart of the Rodeo,' when country was kind of getting away from the fiddle and steel…

— Marty Stuart

Well, I was dedicated to God before I was born by Momma and Daddy, and I was raised in a very traditional…

— Marty Stuart

I saw footage of Johnny Cash and Elvis Presley just hanging out together in Memphis when they were young guys getting started…

— Marty Stuart

Well, being from Mississippi, the church house is kind of the common denominator. It was for me growing up. Like so many…

— Marty Stuart

Nobody in my school knew who Bill Monroe was, or Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs, and barely Johnny Cash. Nobody spoke that…

— Marty Stuart

I got to Nashville on Labor Day weekend in 1972. And the Grand Ole Opry is still there, the Country Music Hall…

— Marty Stuart

Growing up in Mississippi, the first song that I ever remember hearing, that captivated my mind and transported me from my bedroom…

— Marty Stuart

I went out on the road when I was 12 years old, playing with the Sullivan Family Gospel Singers. That was the…

— Marty Stuart

Nothing will prepare you for singing the truth like about 35 years in the music business, financial troubles and a couple trips…

— Marty Stuart

From watching Lester (Flatt), I learned that it's important to be loyal to the people who made you and bought your music.…

— Marty Stuart

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

Well, the things that country music is parodied for sometimes - trains, drinking, sin, cheating, redemption, jailhouses, rambling, hoboing, on and on,…

— Marty Stuart

I loved the Rolling Stones. I heard a little bit of country music creeping around the edges of some of their songs.…

— Marty Stuart

Country music has taken so many forms, and I've always contended that it does not matter if the casual listener falls in…

— Marty Stuart

I call this my church house trilogy. Souls' Chapel really was music from the Mississippi Delta, which to me is a church…

— Marty Stuart

I haven't been to bed since 1972.

— Marty Stuart

I can't remember when I didn't have an instrument around.

— Marty Stuart

My mother named me for Marty Robbins.

— Marty Stuart

I've always been a collector at heart.

— Marty Stuart

Pop Staples was one of my true mentors.

— Marty Stuart

Being sober and clear-eyed changes everything.

— Marty Stuart

People shouldn't be punished for their wisdom.

— Marty Stuart