Marty Stuart

Some things you can never get back.

— Marty Stuart

The first Nudie suits I bought were two hundred bucks.

— Marty Stuart

Coming from bluegrass background, I totally understand family harmonies.

— Marty Stuart

The stories in our music form a special viewpoint on the story of America in the 20th Century.

— Marty Stuart

Today the most outlaw thing you can possibly do in Nashville, Tennessee, is play country music.

— Marty Stuart

Rock 'n' roll entertained my head but there was something about country music that touched my heart.

— Marty Stuart

To me, all music that is made under the umbrella of the United States of America is Americana music.

— Marty Stuart

I don't have many regrets in my life. But I have one. I would have stayed sober all along.

— Marty Stuart

When we lost Glen Campbell, we lost an American original. We also lost a really good man.

— Marty Stuart

When country music is doing its job, it reports on the good, bad and indifferent of our human condition.

— Marty Stuart

It is great to know that the lives and careers of country music's artists are being documented through the Hall of Fame's…

— Marty Stuart

One thing that I love about country music, probably more so than any other culture - maybe the blues rivals it -…

— Marty Stuart

Where better than the church for people like me, George Jones and Johnny Cash to go to get ourselves in shape enough…

— Marty Stuart

Well, I've always said that country music has always shared a very unique relationship with gospel music - the hooting and hollering,…

— Marty Stuart

I have a low-tech camera with one lens that I've shot everything in my life on. My subjects and my subject matter…

— Marty Stuart

Hillbilly Rock' was the song that opened the door and gave me a reason to get a bus and a band and…

— Marty Stuart

I swear, there is Capitol Studios and then there's every other studio on the planet Earth. It is the ultimate, paramount of…

— Marty Stuart

After people work hard and cope with the pressures of life throughout the week, going out to a show or tuning in…

— Marty Stuart

When I pick up Hank Williams' guitar or that first suit that Johnny Cash wore on stage, it empowers me.

— Marty Stuart

I think the way country music is set up, we all came from a family background.

— Marty Stuart

The four things a hillbilly singer needs are a Cadillac, a Nudie suit, the right hairdo, and a pair of pointy-toed boots.

— Marty Stuart

Every time I hear a Garth Brooks record I tend to want to hear James Taylor.

— Marty Stuart

The Ryman and the Grand Ole Opry, if you're a Southern boy, is just a way of life.

— Marty Stuart

More than anybody in the music industry, the Staple Singers were like family to me.

— Marty Stuart

I've always loved gospel music. Being raised in Mississippi, it was kind of part of the atmosphere down there.

— Marty Stuart

We need all those divisions of country music, firing on all cylinders.

— Marty Stuart

My main electric guitar belonged to Clarence White, the great guitarist for the Byrds.

— Marty Stuart

I've been promoting the idea of a Jimmie Rodgers documentary for years.

— Marty Stuart

The only two jobs I ever had were with Lester Flatt and Johnny Cash.

— Marty Stuart

From the first time I played with Lester Flatt, I sensed an extreme amount of history around me.

— Marty Stuart

If you look back into the Superlatives' body of work, we've always included instrumentals.

— Marty Stuart

Like so many other people I was raised right, went crazy but I always knew God had His hand on me.

— Marty Stuart

I'm really taken by the fact that my photographs live on somebody's wall.

— Marty Stuart

Walking into the Ryman with Lester Flatt was the equivalent of walking into the Vatican with the pope.

— Marty Stuart

One of the most quotable guys ever in country music was Grandpa Jones.

— Marty Stuart

Sun Studios was where so much of American music exploded from.

— Marty Stuart

I figure I'm a mandolin player first and foremost, and everything else I've accomplished is just a scam.

— Marty Stuart

I don't know how it got around that I play a lot of instruments. I really don't. I play the guitar and…

— Marty Stuart

The history of country music is as important as any other art form.

— Marty Stuart

There was a junk store in Nashville on 8th Avenue, where I bought Patsy Cline's train case for $75.

— Marty Stuart