Accept Quote by Nelly

I came to town thinking that everybody had the same idea of what country music was that I did.

— Lee Ann Womack

Country was always in the background, but now it's the voice of the people. That's what the people want to sing, you know? I'm…

— John Waite

When Florida Georgia Line and Nelly put out the 'Cruise' remix, it brought so many more people to country music.

— Kelsea Ballerini

I'm excited to be part of a movement that's progressing country music. There's always gonna be people saying, 'It ain't country anymore,' but I…

— Luke Bryan

People might get mad at my style or my delivery and say it's not country. But the country music that brought me to Nashville?…

— Walker Hayes

Going back to the Byrds and 'Sweetheart of the Rodeo,' when country was kind of getting away from the fiddle and steel aspect, it…

— Marty Stuart

There is definitely that thing here a little where people are like 'Oh that Broadway girl has come to Nashville' and I'm like 'Listen…

— Laura Bell Bundy

I was always the pop guy that was a little too country. I talked a little too country; I brought the country artists in.

— Bobby Bones

The word matters in country music, and it always has. And everybody had lived those words in country songs.

— Brenda Lee

You know, they were returning to the language of the people and trying to use musical language, particularly as Copland did to create a…

— Michael Tilson Thomas

The traditional country music stays because it's such an all-around good format and it's fun to write songs like 'Oh Susannah.' I just feel…

— Eddie Rabbitt

I think the way country music is set up, we all came from a family background.

— Marty Stuart