Country Quote by Carlene Carter

I realize over the years my music has started becoming more like country and it's not necessarily something I'm trying to do.

— Matt Wertz

I don't know how these bands did it back in the '70s when they would crank out two records a year and tour at…

— Wayne Static

And obviously, when I started out, I had a little bit more curiosity than some, and went seeking out the original artists, or in…

— Elvis Costello

I knew I was going to do a country album one day. But I was just trying to figure out for the life of…

— Lionel Richie

I love country music, and I did as a kid.

— John Waite

I got country music in me.

— Shemar Moore

You just want to go back to those 70s albums. Even a lot of the 90s indie records were still done on tape, and…

— Beck

I was feeling really restless in my hard-rock band. I wanted to learn more about storytelling in music, and that's what country music is.

— Lindsey Haun

This is just strictly me wanting to make a record that is the real deal. It is all the stuff that I have learned…

— Vince Gill

I did country way back when I was, like, 13-14 years old, and then I kind of fell into the pop genre.

— Brooke Hogan

In the mid-1970s, I even decided to make my own country album. I put the idea to my record company, thinking we'd just go…

— Vera Lynn

I think the first thing you should know is that nobody in country music 'made it' the same way. It's all different. There's no…

— Taylor Swift