Art Quote by Martie Maguire

Country music's always had the best musicians in any format of music, and I always gravitated toward that, stuff that was musically interesting.

— Brad Paisley

I'm no expert in what country artists go through or how country audiences would react, but I'll say that the work I did to…

— Chris Carmack

That era in the late '80s through the '90s was really when the music was so new, fresh, energetic, but still creative. It hadn't…

— Terry Gross

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

English urban artists were very used to making secondhand American music, and I thought that was boring.

— Labrinth

Seeing what kinds of songs work in other cities and other parts of the world was pretty eye-opening. I know it changed how I…

— Andy Grammer

Sometimes we were really surprised. There were major artists that would come by because they wanted to.

— Jancee Dunn

It was pretty insane to play the Grammy Awards and looking out in the audience and seeing rock royalty - Bono and Paul McCartney.…

— Orianthi

At the end of the day, I think country music's always been cool.

— Lainey Wilson

You think about people like Hank Williams, who stood on that spot of wood, and Mr. Acuff, and, of course, George Jones. And just…

— Alan Jackson

Around 2008 was a really special time culturally. There were a lot of cool things going on in music, in fashion, politically. It was…

— Santigold

Woodstock had a tremendous impact on American artistic life.

— P. J. O'Rourke