Hank Williams III Quotes

I got country music in me.

I have such a deep love for traditional country music.

I'm helping country sound a little more country.

Basically, country is my kind of music - the simple melody, the simple lyrics.

Country music has room for a little bit of everything.

Going back to the Byrds and 'Sweetheart of the Rodeo,' when country was kind of getting away from the fiddle and steel aspect, it took some rock & rollers to introduce a new generation to it, and it kinda put some things straight.

I don't know anybody who doesn't hate being called alt.country. It just sounds like a website. I don't mind being called Americana, I don't mind being called country noir, or independent country is fine, but the words alt.country make me insane.

Country music has always sort of been country music.

I discovered in college that country music could be fun adding some swing to it.

I was a folk singer who became totally over the edge with country music. I found my voice and style working with Gram Parsons. I learned how to listen to George Jones records and the Louvin Brothers.

Country is bringing in a little rock element... a little '80s element. Melody is king now. But its just in the music, its not so much in the songwriting, which is still very basic to the storytelling aspect of it.

I would say country is the one type of music I've spent the least amount of time with in my life. I grew up in Virginia, where there was a lot of it, but I was more interested in rock and roll. Southern rock.

I listen to Mark Chestnutt and think he's a great singer - and he really does good material.

I think the great country songs mixed with some of that bluegrass instrumentation - and surrounding all that with a little bit of a rock vibe and energy - is the kind of music I make.

I figure the oldies are real close to what rocking country use to be.

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

I've never really been a traditional country kind of guy. I wanted my music to sound more like the end of the '90s and to have the kind of great music, pop or whatever, that radio will embrace.

Country music is so related to gospel. It seems I could go down that road pretty easily.

I guess what I like is mostly country & western or else stuff that has a real blues feel to it.

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

I'm a lover of old traditional country - George Jones, Merle Haggard, Tammy Wynette, Marty Roberts.

I'm a huge country fan and am always inspired by classic country.

I enjoy 'down South' music.

Country hillbilly music I love. Always have.

I like that old style of country music - it seems to me that a lot of the modern country music is rehashed rock n' roll.