Art Quote by Conway Twitty

Having hits buries a singer in the past. A lot of singers hide in the past because it's safer back there. If you've ever…

— Bob Dylan

Each kind of generation of bands forgets how they got here. Waylon Jennings came out and they're like, 'That's not Patsy Cline.' And everyone…

— Kristian Bush

Good new songs are the backbone of the music industry. There isn't an artist out there who could survive without hit songs.

— Kara DioGuardi

I think if you look back at the lead singers that left groups that didn't make it, you'll see that a lot of them…

— Jeffrey Osborne

But also there are all the famous stories about the songs that have been rejected, but then went on to become hits.

— Cynthia Weil

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

— Eddie Rabbitt

There's more well-known artists who aren't making as good songs as people who are just coming out of nowhere. That seems to be more…

— Beck

There's a new hit rock group or singer every five minutes, but with country music, you have one hit and those people love you…

— Kenny Rogers

In the 1970s, for all the Stevie Wonders, I'm sure there were five artists that were making forgettable music.

— John Legend

I think the average country music fan grew up the same exact way that all the artists did, listening to hip-hop and country and…

— Chris Lane

What is nice about country music today is that most artists are not trying to do something everybody else is doing. They really are…

— Bryan White

Our focus is still on country, but, really, on whatever music our artists are making.

— Scott Borchetta