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The very first show I ever saw was The Judds, and that influenced me to not play country music.
Country music has always been about as close to R&B as you can possibly get. We're storytellers.
At 16, I started really loving country music, and Collin Raye just had the most amazing ballads!
Be in Nashville if you want to be in country music, because everybody that can help you is here.
If I could be a country music star, I'd do it in a heartbeat. I'd hit the road and just jam out.
I want to reach the point where people hear my name and immediately think of real country music.
I always loved country music. But I didn't even know I could sing. I just knew I loved the music.
I grew up listening to 1980s country music, mostly. Early '90s. That time period was my favorite.
People do look at it as an insult that I say I don't listen to country music, which cracks me up.
It isn't reasonable to expect that everyone in the world is a country music fan. Not yet, anyway.
I've always been a fan of country music. It's America's music - I love the songs, love the lyrics.
I didn't grow up listening to country music. I pretty much grew up rebelling against country music.
I've grown up with country music. I love how real everybody is, not just the artists, but the fans.
I believe in the future of country music, but a future without roots is like a kite with no string.
I love sad songs. They say so much. I love country music but even the happy songs sound really sad.
Rock 'n' roll entertained my head but there was something about country music that touched my heart.
I always want to have the traditional country soul while meeting the new standards of country music.
Rock & roll has kept us alive for all these years. But we just love country music. It's in our blood.
When I was 12 years old, my dad got into country music. My first CD was Wynonna Judd, and I loved it.
That's how I want to be with stuff: I always want to be in country music, first and foremost, forever.
When you go to the Opry for a show or hear it on the radio, you get the whole circle of country music.
When I hear bluegrass today, I hear so many new sounds in it. It's almost like country music in a way.
The most flattering thing I hear is, 'I didn't think I liked country music before I heard your record.'
Most people don't know I grew up singing country music; that's what I sang right up until I did 'Idol.'
If you talk bad about country music, it's like saying bad things about my momma. Them's fightin' words.
If one person feels the way I felt when I first fell in love with country music, then I'm doing my job.
Actually, I didn't listen to country music very much in Oklahoma. I listened to blues and rock n' roll.
We're trying to do the thing you don't expect out of country music. Which is to say, 'Go see the world.'
When country music is doing its job, it reports on the good, bad and indifferent of our human condition.
I'm a big rock 'n' roll head, I love country music, I love yodeling music. But I'm still black and funky.
I get paid to lie to people as an actor. Country music is the one area that I don't lie. I tell the truth.
My sister loved country music. My mother loved Spanish music. And my dad was into big band music and jazz.
There's been a shift: Country music is popular music now. Every other genre wants to come over to our land.
To me, country music tells a story about, and deals with, the way people live their lives and what they do.
A lot of people that I've met who don't like country music just haven't been introduced to the old country.
The word matters in country music, and it always has. And everybody had lived those words in country songs.
I'd love to make short film videos pushing the conventional standards of what a country music video can be.
That's one wonderful thing about country music - it shifts, ebbs, and flows stylistically, unlike pop music.
I'll never quit playing country music, or at least acknowledging it, always, as the cornerstone of what I am.
I've always listened to country music. I wanted Hootie to become a country band at first, but I was outvoted.
If you want me in the Hall of Fame put me in because of some contributions that I have made to country music.
I know that a lot of our troops like country music. I would love to do anything I could to just help them out.
Shania Twain brought a whole other fan base to country music with her sound, the way the videos were produced.
It really wasn't until I realized that country music had a whole underworld of songwriters that I dug into it.
I had to make a drastic change at Sun Records and I didn't really appreciate country music until I went there.
I always respected country music for its narrative and how it's so solid, you can get the picture in your mind.
You know, traditional country music is something that's going to be around forever... I'm not worried about it.
I love music as a whole. Country music, hip-hop. I just like people being passionate with what they love to do.
I listened to Country music a little bit, but it didn't enter my life until I started listening to Eric Church.
The artists in country music who stopped having hits are the ones who were led into something that wasn't them.