80s Quote by Lionel Richie

The melody seems to have gone to the country. The country music seems to still have melody and interesting lyrics. But pop music, you've…

— Barry Manilow

I think country has the biggest melodies ever.

— Sean Kingston

There's been a shift: Country music is popular music now. Every other genre wants to come over to our land.

— Miranda Lambert

Country music was the music I was brought up on. It's the music that's closest to my heart and the music that speaks to…

— Teddy Thompson

Basically, country is my kind of music - the simple melody, the simple lyrics.

— Vera Lynn

Country songs are theatrical songs, they tell stories, and wear the hearts on their sleeves and they have great melodies.

— Michael Ball

In country music the lyric is important and the melodies get a little more complex all the time, and you hear marvelous new singers…

— Dinah Shore

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

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

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

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

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