Country Music Quotes
Collection of top 100 famous quotes about Country Music
Country Music Quotes & Sayings
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I find most modern country virtually unlistenable. I can't relate to the music or the lyrics.
— Jenny Lewis
Music may be his passion
but this, right here, was his dream. — Rachel Harris
but this, right here, was his dream. — Rachel Harris
I love being a part of the country-music community.
— Taylor Swift
Guys like me and Ray Charles, when we was coming up through our days, country music and soul music was just a very thin line between the two.
— Percy Sledge
Country music is basically one-third a part of Southern blood, the other two being church and sweet tea.
— Eve Jagger
Country music originates with the colloquial, rural aspects of white America. It's really, truly, rural white America's blues.
— Dwight Yoakam
Country music has to evolve in order to survive.
— Blake Shelton
I love everything from country to alternative to Blink-182 and '90s music to Dave Matthews.
— Spencer Boldman
Country music has the great stories.
— Etta James
There are a lot of shredders in country music - Redd Volkaert, Brent Mason, Dan Huff .. and guys like that
— Brad Paisley
Oh, I think it's definitely spiritual. All music is. I think it's maybe one of the highest forms of spirituality.
— Willie Nelson
I've always had a love of country music.
— Kid Rock
I've always wanted to be accepted by country music fans - without lying.
— Jennifer Warnes
My wife grew up loving country music, so I always run songs by her whether I wrote it or if somebody pitched it to me.
— Rodney Atkins
I've always been a fan of country music. It's America's music - I love the songs, love the lyrics.
— Charles Koppelman
That internal ache is the starting point of country music. If it's a happy song and I can still feel sad in it? That's my favorite.
— Shane McAnally
The word matters in country music, and it always has. And everybody had lived those words in country songs.
— Brenda Lee
I am deeply stoned on the intoxicating effects of [Country Music.]
— Cary Ann Hearst
I said that when I establish myself as an artist that can do pretty much anything I want to do in music, I'm going to make a country album.
— R. Kelly
I always give a lot of credit to Ronnie Dunn for making me fall in love with country music.
— Brett Eldredge
I like for it to be mountain music or old-time country music or traditional bluegrass. Either one will fit me. It's traditional, basically.
— Ralph Stanley
When I decided to go to a country that subsidized music, I went to the Soviet Union for two years.
— Alex North
What is music. A passion for colonies not a love of country.
— Gertrude Stein
Do you know what happens when you play a country song backwards? You get your wife back, your dog back and your job back.
— Richard Belzer
I write some country music. There's a song called 'I Hope You Dance.' Incredible. I was going to write that poem; somebody beat me to it.
— Maya Angelou
By no means do I want to try to leave country music. That's absolutely where I want to stay.
— Sam Hunt
For me there are two types of country: There's the shoot-yourself-in-the-head country, and then there's really good country music.
— Avicii
I love Nashville. It's such a great town, and I'm a huge country music fan. That's what I listen to on the radio in the car.
— Joanna Garcia
Country music historically has been sort of middle-aged people's music.
— John Shelton Reed
New country music comprises about five percent of what I hear per year. I enjoy it, but I don't really take note of who's singing it or writing it.
— Rivers Cuomo
I love being a part of country music. I love going out and ... doing things for the first time for country music. I always enjoy that.
— Garth Brooks
I think Charley Pride has been one of the best things to happen to country music, to prove it belongs to everybody.
— Loretta Lynn
It means so much being a part of country music and the Opry.
— Martina Mcbride
He begged hard, and said he couldn't play - a plausible excuse, but too thin; there wasn't a musician in the country that could.
— Mark Twain
I'm not technically adept at music, but I'd love to be part of a discussion of where progressive rock ends and country music begins.
— William Shatner
Today the most outlaw thing you can possibly do in Nashville, Tennessee, is play country music.
— Marty Stuart
When you go to the Opry for a show or hear it on the radio, you get the whole circle of country music.
— Dierks Bentley
You have no idea how much I want you.
— Rachel Harris
When I think about country music, I think about America.
— Johnny Cash
Nashville has always been competitive. My granddaddy called it the Hillbilly Babylon.
— Hunter S. Jones
Just because I'm country music don't mean I don't have a little bit a' soul down in there somewhere.
— Travis Tritt
Country music is the poetry of the American spirit.
— Steve Maraboli
I have such a deep love for traditional country music.
— Connie Smith
I didn't grow up listening to country music. I pretty much grew up rebelling against country music.
— Natalie Maines
Funny how a melody sounds like a memory.
— Eric Church
I draw inspiration from anything and everybody and that's what country music is to me ... real life stories and real life emotions.
— Dustin Lynch
I was sometimes jeered by black soldiers who wanted me to sing something besides country music.
— Charley Pride
As a major country music fan, the CMA awards are my favorite!
— Megan Alexander
The poetry of country music will survive.
— Rodney Crowell
It isn't reasonable to expect that everyone in the world is a country music fan. Not yet, anyway.
— Charley Pride
Country music has become the music that best represents the reality of American life.
— Brad Paisley
When I'd tell people I like country music they'd get this look on their faces. People were kind of ashamed of country.
— Loretta Lynn
You know, the heroes in my romance novels always say that. Scout's honor. But they all later admit to never being a Boy Scout.
— Rachel Harris
Lord, I feel so small sometimes in this great big old world.
Yeah, I know there are more important things.
But don't forget to remember me. — Carrie Underwood
Yeah, I know there are more important things.
But don't forget to remember me. — Carrie Underwood
I didn't want kabobs, Afghan music, and rules that required girls to be carefully monitored. I wanted mac and cheese, country music, and independence.
— Azita Ghanizada
I was feeling really restless in my hard-rock band. I wanted to learn more about storytelling in music, and that's what country music is.
— Lindsey Haun
Soon, the nonstop buzzing of the local insect life gives way to something equally annoying. Country music.
— Pittacus Lore
My favorite songs to sing have always been songs about regret. I don't know why that is, but to me, that's country music.
— Blake Shelton
God-dang-it, country music is my heart.
— Blake Shelton
I love country music.
— Eric Close
Sometimes I am two people. Johnny is the nice one. Cash causes all the trouble. They fight.
— Johnny Cash
Country music is not a formula it's a music with its own soul and I'm all about saving that soul!
— Sammy Kershaw
To me, country music is like the blues, but it's something very hip and - I don't want to say commercial - but it's very worldly and good listening.
— Etta James
In country music, one of the ways we may have gone wrong in the past is trying to be politically correct all the time.
— Blake Shelton
Now God be thanked that the name of a hill is such music, that the name of a river can heal.
— Alan Paton
I love country music, always have and always will.
— Casey James
The artists in country music who stopped having hits are the ones who were led into something that wasn't them.
— Conway Twitty
Staring into his eyes, she noticed a thin circle of gray around the green.
A SILVER LINING, she thought. — Rachel Harris
A SILVER LINING, she thought. — Rachel Harris
Country fans are the best fans out there because of the loyalty, and the way that they apply your music to every aspect of their life.
— Eric Church
I grew up listening to 1980s country music, mostly. Early '90s. That time period was my favorite.
— Blake Shelton
Truth has a resonance to it that fills the cracks where falsehoods lie.
— Rick DeStefanis
You gotta 'be' country music - you can't just sing it.
— Scotty McCreery
I should get a weekend show where all I do is play country music.
— Jerry Springer
I do love country music.
— Kesha
I'm done with industrial. Seriously, my iPod collection at home has no industrial music on it; it's strictly jazz, blues and country.
— Al Jourgensen
I've always said that Adele has turned so many people on to British singers - whether female singers or just like music from this country in general.
— Ellie Goulding
I think country music is really one of the biggest genres of music out there and one the most successful genres.
— Tim McGraw
I think country music is obviously a great form of music. I think it's cool and has mass appeal.
— Jason Aldean
When I need a little advice about Saddam Hussein, I turn to country music.
— George H. W. Bush
Country music is the people's music. It just speaks about real life and about truth and it tells things how they really are.
— Faith Hill
There's been a shift: Country music is popular music now. Every other genre wants to come over to our land.
— Miranda Lambert
Country music belongs to America.
— Bill Monroe
I didn't get into music to become a blues musician, or a country musician. I'm a singer-songwriter. In my book that means I get to do whatever I want.
— Justin Townes Earle
I've never turned my back on country music.
— Reba McEntire
'Nashville' songs and country music have always been about storytelling and about the heart and confessionals. They're monologues.
— Chip Esten