Curves Quote by Valerie June

A lot of Appalachian music has a certain haunted, foggy feel to it; a certain sinister quality. And that transcends who is singing it.…

— Bradford Cox

I grew up on a farm in eastern Tennessee with a very southern lifestyle, so my roots are super country and southern, but my…

— Kelsea Ballerini

When I was governor, I was looking for a way to unify our state. I realized music is about the only thing that unifies…

— Lamar Alexander

I think, being from east Tennessee, you're kinda born with a little lonesome in your soul, in your blood. You know you've got that…

— Ashley Monroe

Even though there are incredible songs floating around Nashville, it's important for me to have my voice heard.

— Kelsea Ballerini

When you're from the East Coast or you're from the South, people expect you to sound a certain way. So if you don't sound…

— Wiz Khalifa

I get a lot of my songwriting done while driving around Nashville - sometimes it comes to me that way.

— Maren Morris

Bill Monroe is not singing about life in America. He's singing about life in Kentucky and Tennessee. And yet it's had this tremendous impact,…

— Chris Thile

All music is based on country music. And that's why so many different kinds of people relate to it. There are more country music…

— Loretta Lynn

This is the way to hear music, I think, surrounded by rolling hills and farmlands, under a big sky.

— Michael Lang

I've never set out consciously to write American music. I don't know what that would be unless the obvious Appalachian folk references.

— Carlisle Floyd

... my songs speak for themselves. The musicians who play on them and the way they sound and where they were recorded and the…

— Neil Young