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When Florida Georgia Line and Nelly put out the 'Cruise' remix, it brought so many more people to country music.
I do think that inside of country music now there's a very silent majority, and I represent that silent majority.
Country music listeners really like genuineness, and I hope that's what we portray, and I think that's what we do.
I listened to country music my whole life. I started writing music when I was a teenager. It all came out country.
There wasn't really a song or artist that made me want to be a singer, I think I was always a fan of country music.
I've heard that the true love of country music is alive and well. That gives me so much hope and so much happiness.
I think Charley Pride has been one of the best things to happen to country music, to prove it belongs to everybody.
In country music, one of the ways we may have gone wrong in the past is trying to be politically correct all the time.
When I'd tell people I like country music they'd get this look on their faces. People were kind of ashamed of country.
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.
Country Music is great music because it really comes from real life experiences. It is such a great haven for reality.
We work so hard to stay true to country music. People can say they don't like it, but they can't say it's not country.
In the middle of Mississippi, so many kinds of music came, but it was Nashville and country music that pulled my heart.
I was always sort of mystified and excited about the world of country music. Something about it struck me as enchanted.
My stepfather was a country music fan, and I grew up on a horse farm, so the older country, that's what he listened to.
I like that old style of country music - it seems to me that a lot of the modern country music is rehashed rock n' roll.
A lot of people like mainstream country because they're not given another option of country music to like that's modern.
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.
What I loved about country music when I was a kid was the Grand Ole Opry, was 'Hee Haw,' was 360 degrees of entertainment.
I've always liked women singers and appreciate a good story being told. That's what country music used to do on the radio.
I like country music. Sometimes I'll just type in 'country' on Pandora and listen. I really like the passion in the lyrics.
The passion for doing music, the passion that I have for going out and playing it live - my love for country music is back.
Don't listen to much country music, you know, but I know a little bit though. My sister listens to a little bit of country.
Obviously, I love country music, so I wanna be able to live in the country music genre and then play to country music fans.
Dylan's relationship with Johnny Cash was the biggest influence on Nashville in my lifetime - they opened up country music.
There are so many music genres competing against each other, but I feel like country music has always been a unified front.
When times are good, we have tunes to dance to; when times are tough, we're supposed to talk about it. That's country music.
When I moved to New York, I fell head over heels back into country music and probably 'cause I missed something about Texas.
Growing up, I remember thinking country music was all honky-tonks and beer and trucks - Britney Spears was my first concert.
I actually am a country music fan. I listen to a lot of Blake Shelton and Carrie Underwood and Maren Morris and Keith Urban.
Country music is the people's music. It just speaks about real life and about truth and it tells things how they really are.
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.
To me, country music is emotions, certain harmonies. But it's all in the emotions - a lot of good times, a lot of hard times.
That's why I've always loved country music. Whether it's sad, pumps you up, or it's breakup songs, it's all real-life things.
I think I never had this grandiose dream of being any country music star. I just slowly progressed into that's what I'm doing.
Country music originates with the colloquial, rural aspects of white America. It's really, truly, rural white America's blues.
I was exposed to jazz and blues and gospel and country music and rock, and I was the only kid I knew who knew about that stuff.
I'm all about showing people what I can really do in country music. Give me a mic and let me perform, and I'll prove it to you.
My dad was a country musician, so we had David Allan Coe and lots of other country music playing around the house all the time.
There's a place for all types of country music as long as there is honesty and realness and a real human experience for the fans.
With Rascal Flatts, I'm such a fan of them, and I feel like they've been so gracefully relevant through decades of country music.
'Neil Young Heart of Gold', that was a valentine to Nashville and country music in the Grand Ole Opry tradition and Hank Williams.
I love traditional country music, and I feel like there's a need for it and a want for it. But I enjoy everybody in country music.
I'm an Australian, and when I grew up much of my influences were American - blues music and country music, all that sort of thing.
I draw inspiration from anything and everybody and that's what country music is to me... real life stories and real life emotions.
'Nashville' songs and country music have always been about storytelling and about the heart and confessionals. They're monologues.
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.
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.
That's why we do this. In country music, we do this for this very reason... to impact people lyrically, to be a part of their lives.
Country music is some of the best-written music in the world, so yeah, one day, I would keep my mind open to doing a country record.