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“When I started making some paychecks, I didn't invest in stocks and bonds - I invested in American culture.”

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Today the most outlaw thing you can possibly do in Nashville, Tennessee, is play country music.

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To me, all music that is made under the umbrella of the United States of America is Americana music.

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I'm always on the prowl for the kinds of recordings that can inspire and potentially make a difference.

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I saw footage of Johnny Cash and Elvis Presley just hanging out together in Memphis when they were young guys getting started at Sun,…

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There's every other guitar player and then there's Chet. He transcended musical boundaries for more than fifty years. God only lays Chet Atkins on…

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I wish I could have been in the control room at Capitol Studio A listening to the playback of 'Wichita Lineman' the first time…

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Well, I've always said that country music has always shared a very unique relationship with gospel music - the hooting and hollering, you know,…

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Where better than the church for people like me, George Jones and Johnny Cash to go to get ourselves in shape enough to sing…

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There are two kinds of people, there's those who like Johnny Cash, and those that will.

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I don't have many regrets in my life. But I have one. I would have stayed sober all along.

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Nobody in my school knew who Bill Monroe was, or Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs, and barely Johnny Cash. Nobody spoke that language. I…

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I can't remember when I didn't have an instrument around.

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I wasn't attracted to American cinema, but I fell in love with Los Angeles the minute I arrived.

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I have fallen in love with American names, the sharp names that never get fat.

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I certainly don't think that the heirs of the American Revolution were a particularly noble class.

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Congress passed the American Rescue Plan Act in a tremendous investment to support millions of workers without a paycheck and behind on bills.

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Small businesses are the backbone of the American economy and employ almost half of the working population. Yet because of their size, they rarely…

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Although I write in English, and despite the fact that I'm from America, I consider myself an Armenian writer. The words I use are…

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When we first sold the Wallace and Gromit shorts to America, people suggested we get rid of the strange British accents and put clear…

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Firefighters and rescue workers are American superheroes.

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France has not only built a bureaucratic barrier against American culture, it has constructed a notorious intellectual case against it as well. The French…

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New York and San Francisco are distinctly different. San Francisco is driving the American media, not New York. You have young, microwaved millionaires and…

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