Always Quote by B. J. Thomas

“While I was backstage before presenting the Best New Artist award, I talked to George Strait for a while. He's so incredibly cool. So…

— Taylor Swift

Anyone who says it's so easy to write a country hit and that it's just a formula - well, try it sometime. If it…

— Chris Stapleton

Dolly's first hit, 'Jolene,' became a country hit that crossed into the pop charts. The chance of this happening to an artist in today's…

— Porter Wagoner

I know people who have written big hit country songs that are really kind of terrible songs, but for the rest of their life,…

— Jason Isbell

I feel like Nashville has really embraced me with open arms. I was a little worried at first; you know, everybody knows about my…

— Cassadee Pope

There were some things that I found I really enjoyed singing about; like, on the title track, there's this film-noir character of a woman…

— Diana Krall

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

— Sara Evans

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

— Tonya Mitchell

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

I actually started singing country music at 4 years old, right when I started learning how to sing. I would cover a lot of…

— Cassadee Pope

After spending my pre-teen years as the singer in a bluegrass band, I convinced my parents to let me drop out of high school…

— Carly Pearce

If I wasn't singing country music for a living, I was actually going to school to be a doctor.

— Dustin Lynch