Country Quote by Robert Hilburn

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

— Matty Healy

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

— Marty Stuart

If I'm listening to country, it's Hank Williams, George Jones, Merle Haggard and stuff like that. If people out there don't take that stuff…

— Buzz Osborne

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

My music comes from country music. Merle Haggard is God, and I do believe that. I'm not too tuned in to country music. I…

— Loudon Wainwright III

I was obsessed with country music when I was a kid, and it's definitely had a huge influence on the way I write songs.…

— Teddy Thompson

Country music is full of affairs and cheating; that's where all those Hank Williams songs come from.

— Robert Hilburn

I think that, in my research anyway, country music seems to be grounded in people staying true to their roots, being homegrown and being…

— Alex Roe

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

— Michael Ball

I just always loved the storytelling aspect. Even with the production that's happening right now in music, I still think the core of country…

— Cassadee Pope

I really like Alan Jackson, in Country Music. I think he's really very, very talented along with George Jones, and Merle Haggard, the same…

— Tanya Tucker

Country music is who I really, really am deeply.

— Jessica Mauboy