Buck Owens Quotes

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.

I don't think I'm a country artist, really. I'm a country person, but I don't think I'm necessarily a country singer or musician.

I've always wanted to make records that rock like hell. But also, I've never wanted to compromise that Country place deep inside.

I've never been one for doing remixes. Then I've gotta decide which version am I gonna be tonight: country Carrie or pop Carrie? I'd rather just make country music that anybody can get into no matter what they listen to.

I knew I didn't want to make a country record just because that's not really what I would have ever made as a solo artist.

I dropped the 'Bundy' with my country music because I wanted it to be two separate things: There's me as a songwriter and a country singer, and there's me as a Broadway performer.

I don't think I've changed anything in the country format whatsoever. But I'm not worried about it. I've found my place in it.

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

I still dabble in different types of music, but I'm sticking to my Country roots.

The only thing I want to be known as is a country singer. I want people to hear it and go, 'That's country!'

I like hearing fiddles, steel guitar, acoustics up loud - really rock & roll stuff but with a country sound behind it. That's just who I am. I'm not trying to prove a point; I am just doing what I like. But I don't have any problems with any other artist coming in and doing their own thing.

Well, I am not sure of when my album will be released but my music has a lot of different sounds. I'm a hip-hop/R&B girl at heart, but I love pop music as well, and I even have an affinity for country music. So I would say my music might have something for everyone.

My sound is Solange. It's definitely not Destiny's Child.

I never started out as an R&B singer. I grew up on all types of music - jazz, rock, pop, country, folk - and I wanted to bring that to my stage.

The other guys in Hootie were into rock. I brought the country influence.

I love what Drake does, but I don't want to be called the Drake of country.

I'm mixing country with kind of a modern twist to it.

Some people say I make hip-hop. Others see me as doing EDM. Some people might look at me as a trap artist, but I'm not really stuck to any of those.

It's either you finna create your own wave, you finna sound like me or you finna sound like G Herbo, you finna sound like Chance The Rapper, you finna sound like Juice Wrld. You ain't gonna get too far 'cause you sound like somebody. So, create your own lane and do your own style.

When I first came out, country wouldn't touch me because I was way too rock, and rock wouldn't touch me because I was definitely country.

At no time was I trying to write a crossover record.

People would say, 'Why are you guys in country music? You look like you're in the Backstreet Boys.' We took so much heat. We always said, 'It's not about hats and Wrangler Jeans. It's about a state of mind. Country is in our souls.'

Our first album didn't work because we tried to be something we're not.

People grapple with labeling me as hip-hop, R&B, or pop, and it's interesting to me. I'm just making music.

I grew up listening to everything. I was in rock n' roll bands and punk bands, and I loved bluegrass and country music, too. Then, when I moved to Nashville, I put out a very traditional country record because that's just what you do. I had a bunch of very traditional country songs. Next thing you know, you're a country singer.