Sam Hunt Quotes

I've never turned my back on country music.

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've always stood up for country music.

I just passed my identification crisis and came back to country music.

It means so much being a part of country music and the Opry.

If I wanted to be a pop singer, I would have done that 20 years ago. I love country music.

I don't sing country music because I'm not capable of singing other kinds of music; I sing it because I think it's the most beautiful kind of music there is.

That's how I want to be with stuff: I always want to be in country music, first and foremost, forever.

I've heard that the true love of country music is alive and well. That gives me so much hope and so much happiness.

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've grown up on gospel and blues music, and now it's a huge part of who I am.

I grew up listening to 1980s country music, mostly. Early '90s. That time period was my favorite.

I think singing traditional country is wonderful, because I'm bringing it to my generation and to the younger kids.

I always know I'm a country singer, and regardless of where I've fallen into different places with my music, I know that, really, I'm a country singer.

I was sort of in denial about doing country for awhile but I sort of grew up and realized who I was, what I wanted to say. I think country music is the best music in the world and I'm glad to be doing a country album. I hope people will love it as much as I loved making it.

I'm a country singer. I love all kinds of music, but country is where my loyalty lies. That's just me and what I do, and I'm not going to change it.

Unfortunately, the young generation, who I believe have their own place in the sun like I had mine; but I wish it was possible there were other ways to have them understand this music was here before they came, and the reason that it was here.

Country music has always sort of been country music.

Historically, black music has influenced other cultures and other genres and created other genres.

My favorite type of music to sing is country, and my favorite type of music to listen to is country.

The difference between me and the newer artists is that I have the history with the architects, the masters that started the music. I know where the music came from.

The industry is always changing, but country music is like a force that always comes back.

I've known from a very early age that singing was what I was supposed to do. There was this unmistaken, undeniable passion within me to sing country music.

I'll give up this sort of touring madness certainly, but music-everything is based on music. No, I'll never stop my music.

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.