Artist Quote by Big Daddy Kane

I always loved Willie Nelson, but I loved the songs that Willie made famous.

— Shane McAnally

I was working for Alan Lomax in the Library of Congress folk song archive, and starting to realize what a wealth of different kinds…

— Pete Seeger

“even though I don’t really like country music, sometimes, if you let it, the sound of all those people singing their hearts out can…

— Carol Rifka Brunt

You'd hear Willie Nelson, then Earth, Wind & Fire, then Chicago, then Billy Joel on the same radio station. Nowadays, everything is compartmentalized.

— Brian McKnight

I'm not sure how we exist, as an artist, without country radio.

— Garth Brooks

Favorite country singer of all time... Hank Williams... Well, then there's Willie Nelson. Can I have three? I can't do one. Then if I…

— Rodney Crowell

I'm a big country fan. I remember, as a kid, when Ray Charles did the 'Modern Sounds In Country And Western Music' record. That's…

— Michael McDonald

Country music tends to be so sentimental and homespun, it's easy to stumble into self-parody, but Haggard has brought a freshness to the themes…

— Robert Hilburn

“The country singers understand. It’s always that one song that gets you. You can hide, but the song comes to find you. Country singers…

— Rob Sheffield

I felt a kinship with country music, because country has lyrics that tell stories

— Desmond Child

Country music historically has been sort of middle-aged people's music.

— John Shelton Reed

Country Music has always changed for the times, if you listen to the recordings from the 50's to 60's to 70's, to now, the…

— Mark Chesnutt