Martina McBride Quotes

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

Historically, black music has influenced other cultures and other genres and created other genres.

I love the Country Music Hall of Fame. I don't think it's just a hall of fame and it's not just a museum. It's a schoolhouse. It's a place where people from all across the world can come and learn about this great genre that we're making a living out of.

There's no way that music could ever go down the tubes. I can't imagine a civilization without music. When you realize today that music is such a part of people's lives. And will always be, really.

Unfortunately, the young generation, who I believe have their own place in the sun like I had mine; but I wish it was possible there were other ways to have them understand this music was here before they came, and the reason that it was here.

Man I mean, the great thing about playing clubs in Harlem is people have an appreciation not just for the music but for the history of the music.

It's kind of odd when you think of Loretta Lynn, when she was first traveling and recording country music. It was all built through word of mouth. If you pleased the fans, they would pass it around to their friends and family.

One thing we have to remember as songwriters is that we have to consider that country music is the country's music. That doesn't mean that everybody's rural.

I hope that country music embraces me because I grew up on it and have a love for the music.

Because of the fashion, the young people don't have any access to the history of music, unless people like me revive it. There are very few people to revive it, because you can't earn any money doing it.

Obviously, I love country music, so I wanna be able to live in the country music genre and then play to country music fans.

The old-timers schooled me good. They brainwashed me to respect music, whether we were playing rockabilly or blues or rock and roll.

We have to make a living, sure, but it's about the legacy of Lynyrd Skynyrd and what it stands for, what the fans are all about.

I got to Nashville on Labor Day weekend in 1972. And the Grand Ole Opry is still there, the Country Music Hall of Fame is still there. And the roots of country music are still there. It's where the authenticity and the empowering force lies.

I don't care about the word 'pop'. The Beatles were pop; it's just what's popular.

It really is, to see that this kind of music is still so popular.

I think singing traditional country is wonderful, because I'm bringing it to my generation and to the younger kids.

The truth is, I think country music... there's a lot of great people, and just being raised the way a lot of country boys and girls are, hopefully there's just a lot of respect.

It's always very special for me to work Chicago. Both of the record companies I was with, early on, were based in Chicago. The music was always huge there.

I just change with the times. I really don't have a say in what's going on. Music was here before me.

When you go to the Opry for a show or hear it on the radio, you get the whole circle of country music.

There's a new hit rock group or singer every five minutes, but with country music, you have one hit and those people love you forever.

That's what I love about Nashville and the music community - seeing kids around acoustic music and bluegrass picking parties is the best.

You put a song on the record or on tape and you stop singing it. You just don't sit around and sing it anymore unless you're performing. That's kind of sad.

I'd like to be remembered as a keeper of the flame who kept traditional music alive, because I've been doing that twice as long as I was in the Byrds.