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I laid my country music aside for quite a while... because bluegrass audiences didn't care to hear it. But it just kept haunting me.
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.
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.
I'm treating country music like it's a sport. I'm looking at where my competition is and realized I needed to work on my songwriting.
I'm nowhere with country music. I don't hear much of it, so I shouldn't venture an opinion, but when it finds me, it seems formulaic.
That's one of the reasons I got into country music: because of the craft of that lyric and how much you could put into three minutes.
The tastes of country music fans are not limited to the narrow range defined by consultants and programmers and record company moguls.
When I was a little girl, I always dreamed of being a country music singer, but I never dreamed I'd be a member of the Grand Ole Opry.
Most of my read on America is through looking through the front windshield of a bus and hanging out with country music fans backstage.
There's a new hit rock group or singer every five minutes, but with country music, you have one hit and those people love you forever.
I have a fan base. I've sold a million albums in country music. I've got fans out there who love my music and would like to hear more.
Country music as a genre, as an art form, is just as valid out there in the pantheon of the arts as classical, jazz, ballet, whatever.
I think it took me a while to convince Nashville that what I do is genuine and my heart's in the right place, and I love country music.
I definitely listened to country music. I don't think I listened to hair bands as much as I did Bruce Springsteen and U2 and Aerosmith.
I think country music is Lynyrd Skynyrd. I think a lot of the country music is what we do, but I don't think rock & roll is dead at all.
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.
I never get tired of exploring Americana or country music, and I always have a little bit of a crooner in me that never seems to go away.
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.
All the girls over there in Ireland are well versed in American country music. Jim Reeves and Patsy Cline are like king and queen over there.
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.
My definition of country music is really pretty simple. It's when someone sings about their life and what they know, from an authentic place.
The story of American pop music is the story of failure. The blues, country music, it's not the story of success. People don't win; they lose.
I don't like country music, but I don't mean to denigrate those who do. And for the people who like country music, denigrate means 'put down'.
When I first came to Nashville, people hardly gave country music any respect. We lived in old cars and dirty hotels, and we ate when we could.
I listen to a lot of really old western and country music. There's a lot of cool stuff in there... all the heartbreak of the country darkness.
I didn't know much about him, and I wasn't a big country music fan. I listened to the Beatles and David Bowie, so I didn't know a lot about him.
I wanted to play rocking country music, and when I started out in the late Seventies, it took me a couple of albums to figure out how to do that.
I was raised on a farm in East Tennessee, and my first concert was Britney Spears. It's my job as a country music artist to be honest about that.
What I always liked about country music was the stories, the ability to talk about very real things like divorce and drinking and death and jail.
I've always liked country music. It's a certain aspect of America that goes back to the British Isles and the influence is very native to America.
What makes my approach special is that I do different things. I do jazz, blues, country music and so forth. I do them all, like a good utility man.
Modern love - in the movies and music - especially country music - is full of tales of women exacting sweet revenge on the men who done them wrong.
What we don't need in country music is divisiveness, public criticism of each other, and some arbitrary judgement of what belongs and what doesn't.
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.
I try to make an album that reflects what I love about country music. It's not just all about happy parties all the time. There are some sad songs.
I have my own definitions of success. And I have my own definitions of country music that, luckily, I share with more people than I realized before.
Nobody has done Mariah Carey whistle-tone notes in country music that I've heard of, and if you're capable of doing it, you might as well add it in.
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.
I believe that melody is such a lost part of music and country music. People are either scared of it or not using all the colors that are available.
Everybody has their favorite sad songs. That's part of what I love so much about country music. Country music is never afraid to go with a sad song.
Only in country music can you compare an old pickup truck and an old guitar to your wife and turn it into a love song... Thank God for country music.
I'm surprised at the loyalty of the country music fan. People that started out with us at 'Prayin' for Daylight' still come to multiple shows a year.
I don't mind putting my heart out there for the audience, and for the country music fans... to be vulnerable with them... that's my job as an artist.
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.
I got to where I couldn't listen to country radio. Country music is supposed to have steel and fiddle. When I hear country music, it should be country.
I was into all kinds of music as a teen - country music, because my dad was in a band that played country, and whatever my sister and brother were into.
I am probably the last of a generation able to gain an education in country music by osmosis, by sitting in a '64 Ford banging the buttons on the radio.
Me and my dad, we'd go to the dirt bike races every year. I mean we'd go probably too much every year. And he would make me listen to all country music.
I always say, no matter what happens to me as a black man in country music, I can handle it if Charley Pride could handle all the stuff he went through.
The reason I was drawn to the Band Perry was because they have a knack for doing rollicking country music that can sound a little rock and a little pop.