David Hepworth Quotes

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'll tell you sort of an odd story: My music taste changed on 9/11. And it's very strange. I actually intellectually find this very curious. But on 9/11, I didn't like how rock music responded. And country music collectively, the way they responded, it resonated with me.

Pop music often tells you everything is OK, while rock music tells you that it's not OK, but you can change it.

We've got great fans that rock and roll won't have, because you can have a one-hit record and country music used to, not so much anymore and you have a fan forever.

Country music has always been about as close to R&B as you can possibly get. We're storytellers.

I'm not really into rap.

I really get that some people like the roots-rock, storytelling thing that I was doing, and I'm proud of that.

I made mistakes in drama. I thought drama was when actors cried. But drama is when the audience cries.

These days, rock 'n' roll is much more about rock than about roll. I don't do rock. But I'm interested in that roll part, because that's the funny little bit that makes it hip.

I don't cry at books or movies. Ever. So imagine my shock and awe when I read 'The Time Traveler's Wife' for the second time, and I knew the ending, and I started to cry.

In England, rock music very rarely infiltrates the charts, but country music even less so.

I want people to laugh and cry, not just sit and stare at the TV.

I like to listen the blues and some classical.

Metal is still the biggest music now in America.

The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people.

I always do drama. It's just that some people laugh at it and some people cry.

I've got wide tastes, but I don't like jazz.

I loved hard-rock bands, and I loved songwriters who told stories.

I pretty much like all music except for country. I'm not a big fan of country.

I like rock music. I like jazz better, though.

I have to admit, I do not listen to much rock music.

I love rock music, I love country music - I love all music, let's be honest!

I want you to laugh and cry. That's what I do.

On that show, I did country and some rock, too, whatever record I had out at the time, I'd sing that.

I listen to music for emotion and I get zero emotion from rap.