Martina McBride Quotes

Patsy Cline is my favorite singer in the entire world - she is my idol. I adore her.

I didn't get to meet Hank Williams. I was in the Air Force on Okinawa when he passed away.

I am a Patsy Cline fan.

To me, Hank Williams is the first rock-and-roll star.

I grew up listening to Patsy Cline. I was a huge Patsy Cline fan. I still am. Even though she's considered country, I think of her more as a blues singer. She's got a great blues voice, and she has such an amazing story, which I always loved.

George Jones was my all-time favorite singer and one of my favorite people in the world.

I'm not really into alternative country - I'm into Patsy Cline, who lived down the street from where I lived, and old Dolly Parton records, Kitty Wells and that old stuff. I like country music. I also like Eric Church, who has a great new sound but also holds onto that old sound.

I've been a fan of old country music, like Willie Nelson, Patsy Cline. I think I'm drawn to it because of the sense of sadness and sort of loss that a lot of good old country music has.

And one of my favorites was Eddy Arnold of course. He just had that smooth, soulful voice.

I like Loretta Lynn.

I grew up in Arizona listening to Hank Williams Jr., Johnny Cash, Tammy Wynette, and Dolly Parton.

I grew up listening to my mother's collection of Hank Williams, George Jones and Marty Robbins records.

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

By the age of 15, I knew over 40 Hank Williams songs.

Well, it's hard not to love Hank Williams!

I love Marty Robbins, I love Glen Campbell, Loretta Lynn, Patsy Cline.

Everything about Hank Williams interests me. His music, his life. His death. His impact.

Betty White is a riot. She is a good time! That is the bottom line: Betty White is a good time. She is really an incredible woman. She is so kind. She doesn't have one mean bone in her body, and she is the funniest woman in the room always. And you'll never hear one complaint from her.

Lets be clear, Dolly Parton is a rapper. Somewhere before all the country, I don't know what happens up there in the mountains when you're growing up, but she has been spitting rhymes for a very long time - 50 years I'd say.

We stayed there 24 hours a day. We lived and ate and slept that movie. We were enthusiastic, not just because of the movie, but because we had such a great collaborative team. We had a really good time. It was very much a family.

I only wish Chet Atkins could be here for this joyous occasion.

I don't care what's happening in the mainstream of country music. I haven't in a long time.

I'm a hybrid-genre person, which a lot of people find confusing. I grew up listening to American country music and rock n' roll made between 1955 and 1959. The Everly Brothers and Chuck Berry were my first musical loves and are still what I am most moved by. Roy Orbison came a little bit later.

I have such a deep love for traditional country music.

The first songs I learned was 'Crazy' by Patsy Cline and 'At Last' by Etta James. I had been growing up with the Beatles, Pink Floyd, great bands.