Mick Jagger Quotes

[Country Music] is the final destination for many punk rockers [...] Rockabilly is the mid-point and then [they] end up at Country [...] There's purity to that music and I think that appeals to a lot of punk rock people - the precision, the purity, and the directness of Country Music.

I embrace country music because of love, a love of what I came from.

The south is very focused on family... the musical heritage of Muscle Shoals especially and the bands from the region.

Oh, I think country has changed tremendously. I think country has totally changed. Country music when I was a kid was Hank Williams. If you put Hank and Elvis together, there wasn't that musical difference. But as the Beatles showed up and the English invasion, I think country music got pretty far away from rock n' roll.

When I got to Nashville, people started asking me about how I got into country music. I'd tell them I came from a place where people wore cowboy hats for a real reason.

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.

You think about people like Hank Williams, who stood on that spot of wood, and Mr. Acuff, and, of course, George Jones. And just about anybody you can think of who has made country music has been on that stage. That's what makes you so nervous - to think about the historical part of the Opry and how it's played such a part in country music.

Country music isn't a guitar, it isn't a banjo, it isn't a melody, it isn't a lyric. It's a feeling.

The bedrock thing of country music is, it's about storytelling. I feel like I was able to find a niche because I connected to that in some way.

The Court Yard Hounds aren't a threat to the Dixie Chicks.

I think the way country music is set up, we all came from a family background.

I didn't grow up with country music, but I appreciate the lyrics.

I don't think Ireland has really embraced me, but it is not really for me to say. Obviously, people shouldn't embrace me just because I'm Irish, but it is where I'm from. I'm extremely proud to be Irish.

I really feel that Hong Kong is my home, and Hong Kong is my identity as an actor.

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

In the middle of Mississippi, so many kinds of music came, but it was Nashville and country music that pulled my heart.

If you cut me open I bleed East London.

Dad had a way of defining himself. He couldn't put his finger on whether it was rock 'n' roll or country.

When I first got into country, I was trying to do the traditional country thing, and I still have a heart for traditional country. But the songs I was writing just weren't falling into that category.

I hear some new artists that sound country but the record labels and country radio lean more toward a more rock feel for what gets signed to a label and played on the radio.

All music is based on country music. And that's why so many different kinds of people relate to it. There are more country music fans in New Jersey than there are down South.

I believe that many people have forgotten what their roots are. This is one of the advantages of countries with a monarchy. The monarch offers identity across generations, and is a part of these roots and this native country.

England is a country of pianos, they are everywhere.

I do think there's gonna always be a group of country people that are always going to love the old traditional sound.

Just because I don't sing about the normal country themes doesn't mean my songs aren't country. I'd rather sing about having fun.