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

I'll never quit playing country music, or at least acknowledging it, always, as the cornerstone of what I am.

I'm pretty sure I'm gonna stick with country until I ride off in the sunset.

Rock & roll has kept us alive for all these years. But we just love country music. It's in our blood.

My mother's a singer and my mother's father is a singer, and everyone on both sides are all country-western bluegrass musicians.

By no means do I want to try to leave country music. That's absolutely where I want to stay.

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

I felt like it was the space that I could be the most authentic of anywhere because of how I grew up. Even though some of the songs and some of the texture wasn't what I like, I felt like country music was more authentic, in general, than anywhere else.

I didn't grow up with country music, but I appreciate the lyrics.

My first memories of music were country music and Ronnie Milsap. Where I grew up, it was what you listened to. And anything else, you were somewhat out of place.

I always know I'm a country singer, and regardless of where I've fallen into different places with my music, I know that, really, I'm a country singer.

I've gotta stick to my roots, and my roots are blues.

I've never turned my back on country music.

I'm John Lee Hooker in the sense that he was a blues man and he played blues his whole life. I'm a rock guy and I'm going to play rock music my whole life.

I am a Slavic musician and it is deeply inside of me.

I didn't say I wasn't gonna do rockabilly. I just said I ain't gonna sing no song that ain't a country song. I won't be known as anything but a country singer.

I've always wanted to sing country music.

I never gave up on country music because I knew what I was doing was not that bad.

I've always stood up for country music.

Jazz in itself is not struggling. That is, the music itself is not struggling... It's the attitude that's in trouble. My plays insist that we should not forget or toss away our history.

In terms of exploring an identity in the country music world, what I realized very quickly was that there are people who have been performing country music since they were kids. It's very much a part of who they are; very much that jazz and blues are a part of who I am, because I grew up listening to and playing that kind of music.

Without the blues, modern music would be nothing like it is now - not remotely.

I have a huge appreciation for music in general, but my roots are country.

People don't play music in New Orleans for the reasons they do in Nashville or L.A. - to become stars or to get rich - they play because they've got to. It's in the streets, in their family, in their blood.