Books Quote by David Hepworth

A lot of country music is sad.

— Willie Nelson

A lot of country music is sad. I think most art comes out of poverty and hard times. It applies to music. Three chords…

— Willie Nelson

To me, country music is emotions, certain harmonies. But it's all in the emotions - a lot of good times, a lot of hard…

— Hank Williams III

Well, the things that country music is parodied for sometimes - trains, drinking, sin, cheating, redemption, jailhouses, rambling, hoboing, on and on, all those…

— Marty Stuart

When country music is doing its job, it reports on the good, bad and indifferent of our human condition.

— Marty Stuart

Well the country songs themselves are three-chord stories, ballads which are mostly sad. If you are already feeling sorry for yourself when you listen…

— Willie Nelson

I think that, in my research anyway, country music seems to be grounded in people staying true to their roots, being homegrown and being…

— Alex Roe

Country music busts the wall between performer and audience. There's a connection because there's a vulnerability, a confessional quality, to so much of the…

— Hunter Hayes

Country's more than about what the music sounds like. It's what you're saying and who you are as a person.

— Cole Swindell

Everybody has their favorite sad songs. That's part of what I love so much about country music. Country music is never afraid to go…

— Chris Young

There's a longing in country music that can soften even the rockiest heart.

— Glen Campbell

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