Jon Pardi Quotes

I got to where I couldn't listen to country radio. Country music is supposed to have steel and fiddle. When I hear country music, it should be country.

The South just keeps right on playing good time Southern music.

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'm no hillbilly singer.

Country music tells stories, and I've always loved to tell stories.

I enjoy 'down South' music.

Country hillbilly music I love. Always have.

The four things a hillbilly singer needs are a Cadillac, a Nudie suit, the right hairdo, and a pair of pointy-toed boots.

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.

I sing 'Blue Moon of Kentucky.' It's a country song. It's one of my favorites to sing.

Country music has the great stories.

Country music is me, it's what I've grown up with, and it's what I do.

I got country music in me.

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

My son, Walker, has a band called The Dust Busters. You know, he plays banjo, fiddle, guitar, and mandolin, so a lot of my interest in that kind of music comes from him constantly listening to this stuff. He's taught me the history of it. It's remarkable how these young kids are now turned on to more traditional old-time music.

When we moved back to the US, folk music was all the rage. So I traded in my banjo for a guitar.

Bluegrass is really a big part of my background.

I have such a deep love for traditional country music.

Country music is three chords and the truth.

That's country music for you - bourbon and the Bible.

I've always liked country music. It's a certain aspect of America that goes back to the British Isles and the influence is very native to America.

Bluegrass is wonderful music. I'm glad I originated it.

Songs like the Buck Owens tune, for example, are very simple and straightforward, and recording it really gave me a chance to get into and get a sense of Buck's personality, a feel for that whole Bakersfield sound.

You got to have smelt a lot of mule manure before you can sing like a hillbilly.

I'm pretty sure in my older years, I'll be doing old-time flavored folk-mountain music.