Country music Quote by Lorrie Morgan

I'm a firm believer that embracing the imperfections of making music is so much of what makes something groove. Getting rid of these imperfections…

— Jacob Collier

The more perfect music we have, the more attractive the peculiarities and anomalies of human performance become. Perfection is a second rate idea.

— T Bone Burnett

Country music listeners really like genuineness, and I hope that's what we portray, and I think that's what we do.

— Bobby Bones

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

The tragedy of music is that it begins with perfection.

— Morton Feldman

I think the No. 1 biggest misconception about country music is that you have to have been born in a certain place in order…

— CMAT

There is too much emphasis on technical perfection nowadays, and not enough on what music is actually about - irony, joy, human suffering, love.

— Mstislav Rostropovich

Well, more than me saying to the rest of the country music industry there is not enough traditional country music - that is not…

— Vince Gill

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

— Scott Borchetta

Country music has to evolve in order to survive.

— Blake Shelton

There's a real earnestness to country music that I appreciate.

— Matty Healy

We work so hard to stay true to country music. People can say they don't like it, but they can't say it's not country.

— Darius Rucker