Country Quote by Rodney Crowell

Country music has to evolve in order to survive.

— Blake Shelton

“As long as music survives, poetry will never die.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

“Country music is the poetry of the American spirit.”

— Steve Maraboli

The music just tends to be a vehicle for that poetry.

— Mark Knopfler

Poetry can keep life itself alive. You can endure almost anything as long as you can sing about it.

— James Wright

You know, traditional country music is something that's going to be around forever.

— George Strait

I think poetry will survive and I don't think it will be the end of poetry. Our tremendous onslaught of mass media all the…

— Edward Hirsch

The world needs poetry now more than ever. It's the only thing that can keep music from copying itself and sounding the same.

— Lana Del Rey

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

Poetry will exist as long as there is a problem of life and death

— Ruben Dario

America was based on a poetic vision. What will happen when it loses its poetry?

— Azar Nafisi

That poetry survived in its formal agencies finally, and that prose survived to get something said.

— Robert Creeley