Patty Loveless Quotes

People ask me who is my favorite country artist. I say, you mean besides George Jones.

Anyone who knows or cares anything about real country music will agree that George Jones is the voice of it.

Today is a sad day in Country music. We have lost another piece of history. George Jones was not only a good singer, but was a good friend. He will be missed by many.

Who's not a fan of Don Williams? He's the gentle giant.

One of my all-time favorite country singers is a guy named Conway Twitty.

I want to reach the point where people hear my name and immediately think of real country music.

Bobby Bare is one of the greatest people in country music.

I listened to a lot of what my grandparents listened to: George Jones, Johnny Cash - a lot of old country singers. Patsy Cline.

If we all could sound like we wanted to, we'd all sound like George Jones.

I get asked all the time, "What is a George Strait song?" I know it when I hear it. I don't seek a specific tempo or lyric or melody. It just has to make sense. Maybe it is natural because I was given the gift to sing.

I am a huge, huge Ronnie Milsap fan. I have been for a long time.

I really like Alan Jackson, in Country Music. I think he's really very, very talented along with George Jones, and Merle Haggard, the same old favorites.

I don't like all of the contemporary country. I like some of it, but I'm mostly into the traditional style.

I don't like modern country music. It's not what I'm into, is all. I'm old-school.

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.

One of the first records I bought for myself was a Keith Whitley record. I still love the 'L.A. to Miami' album. There were so many things on there - 'Miami, My Amy,' 'Ten Feet Away,' 'Nobody in His Right Mind Would've Left Her.' I can put that album on repeat and listen.

When we lost Glen Campbell, we lost an American original. We also lost a really good man.

I always want to have the traditional country soul while meeting the new standards of country music.

A lot of people like mainstream country because they're not given another option of country music to like that's modern.

I was a huge Garth Brooks fan.

I don't really listen to pop-country, but I like really, really old country that's closer to folk. Like Johnny Cash, who is considered country.

At 82, Nelson (who wrote the song "On the Road Again," among a thousand or more others) is the elder statesman of country music, a steadying and powerful voice in the industry and on environmental issues, and he's still on the road much of the year. The music keeps calling.

George Jones may be gone but his music will live on forever. What a great voice and a great friend.

George Jones will always be one of the most amazing singers who ever lived. He was a true Country Music legend who made music very personal to the listener – I think more than anyone else. He will be dearly missed, but always remembered.

The truth of country music, the real stuff, will prevail ..... generation after generation.