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I was one of the very first people to ever do a video in country music.
Country music historically has been sort of middle-aged people's music.
I think regardless of where people are from, country music is a through line.
Hopefully, people will rediscover real country music. After all, it's in my blood.
People should feel proud about the music that we have in our country, and that's my objective.
I want to reach the point where people hear my name and immediately think of real country music.
A lot of people that I've met who don't like country music just haven't been introduced to the old country.
When Florida Georgia Line and Nelly put out the 'Cruise' remix, it brought so many more people to country music.
A lot of people like mainstream country because they're not given another option of country music to like that's modern.
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.
There were a lot of heads turning when people found out I was doing music and when they found out it was country, they were like, 'What?'
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'.
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.
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.
Undeniably, I'm a country singer; I'm a country songwriter. But I feel like I make country music for people who like country music and for people who don't.
When I'm in Senegal, I can't just sit in isolation making music. People need my help. And the Senegalese people helped create my music. It comes from the country itself.
I'm excited to be part of a movement that's progressing country music. There's always gonna be people saying, 'It ain't country anymore,' but I don't get into that whole deal.
Taking employment out of the country - now that's taking away jobs. These shows employ a lot of people: production, post-production, music supervisors, camera people. A hundred people or more.
Where I came from in the country, there was no place to hear pop music like Little Richard and people like that. Later, I heard James Brown, Otis Redding, The Drifters, The Four Aces, The Ink Spots.
We could say that people who eat grits, listen to country music, follow stock-car racing, support corporal punishment in the schools, hunt 'possum, go to Baptist churches and prefer bourbon to Scotch are likely to be Southerners.
I'm friends with Dierks Bentley. Aside from that, I don't really know anybody else in the country music field, really. I've met the Lady Antebellum people and I met Marty Stuart briefly once. He's really nice, but I don't know any of them, really.
Everyone wants to be an arena act, and it's making country music evolve. People are cutting things more for that arena environment. But who's to say that that is a sign of any more of a successful career than what James Taylor has been able to do, when he still comes and plays the Ryman every two years?