Correct Quote by Blake Shelton

The word matters in country music, and it always has. And everybody had lived those words in country songs.

— Brenda Lee

Country music has always sort of been country music.

— Miranda Lambert

Within the songwriting community, there are these unwritten rules for the way that a song should be written in country music, and I think…

— Sam Hunt

What we don't need in country music is divisiveness, public criticism of each other, and some arbitrary judgement of what belongs and what doesn't.

— Charley Pride

It is a common mistake these days to politicize anything and everything, including music.

— Tony Snow

I'm nowhere with country music. I don't hear much of it, so I shouldn't venture an opinion, but when it finds me, it seems…

— Emmylou Harris

One reason people are turning to country music is because of that non-music called rap.

— Eddie Rabbitt

If you talk bad about country music, it's like saying bad things about my momma. Them's fightin' words.

— Dolly Parton

As far as politically how country music goes, it's true that it's regarded from a distance as a genre of music that at different…

— Mary Chapin Carpenter

Country sure has changed in the last 10 years. It was one thing, then it was another. Country has slowly marched toward a rock…

— John Mellencamp

That's one wonderful thing about country music - it shifts, ebbs, and flows stylistically, unlike pop music.

— Steven Curtis Chapman

That concerns me, that we're reaching out for perfection, when country music has always been about imperfection.

— Lorrie Morgan