80s Quote by Garth Brooks

He [Randy Rhoads] was really a good guy. I never could get over how incredibly little he was.

— Lemmy Kilmister

Travis Scott's dad was one of my OGs when I was a kid in Texas. Obviously Travis was nonexistent yet because his father wasn't…

— DJ Premier

I grew up with the Highwaymen, which was Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings and Kris Kristofferson. Mom and Dad rode rodeo, so country…

— Christian Kane

I can only say the first thing that pops into my mind is I remember, years ago, seeing kind of a has-been country singer…

— Jimmy Buffett

I had admired Waylon [ Jennings], but I never expected to meet him and get to know him. When I finally moved to Nashville…

— Steve Young

Country music was a part of my life. Now it isn't. We had a good relationship, really, but we wanted each other at arm's…

— K. D. Lang

I got to work with [Carlos] Santana, who's been my idol forever. When I was 18, I got up with him in Australia and…

— Orianthi

The first real gig I went to was Randy Crawford in 1980. Seeing a big star like that was just fantastic.

— Bradley Walsh

... another guitar player who had a tremendous influence on my life was Howard Roberts ... I'd listened to a lot of Tal Farlow,…

— Jeff Baxter

Shortly after I started in bluegrass, Ricky Skaggs and I got together and the bluegrass career just snowballed. Being 15 or 16 and making…

— Keith Whitley

Randy Newman seemed like an even worse singer than me. I liked Ray Charles, Levi Stubbs, Jack Jones, Joe Tex, Wilson Pickett.

— Donald Fagen

My dad was a huge country music fan, but he also had a band and he sang. So he'd listen to a lot of…

— Martina McBride