Country Culture Quotes

I'm good at anything that's country - biscuits, gravy, chicken-fried steak. Look at me, for God's sake. I cook what I like to eat.

A lot of my fans, and a lot of country music fans, they still wear boots.

I was always sort of mystified and excited about the world of country music. Something about it struck me as enchanted.

Country fans need to support country music by buying albums and concert tickets for traditional artists or the music will just fade away. And that would be really sad.

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.

It means so much being a part of country music and the Opry.

My dream was to go to Nashville. I had my sights set on my dream. I used to have an '89 Toyota Ford truck. On the front of the truck, I had this license plate with cowboy boots and a guitar that I had airbrushed at Wal-Mart. It said 'Chasin' A Dream.' That was kind of my motto.

You might be a redneck if...you think that John Deere Green, Ford Blue, and Primer Gray are the three of the primary colors.

Culture is the way for a country to know itself.

Some people say I'm not country, but they don't really know how I grew up.

English country life is more like Chekhov than 'The Archers' or Thomas Hardy or even the Updike ethic with which it is sometimes compared.

I do think there's gonna always be a group of country people that are always going to love the old traditional sound.

I think if you live in a country, basically you share the dominant values of a country although you may disagree on issues all the time.

I'm country to the bone.

The culture of any country is gauged first by its progress in art.

I think the way country music is set up, we all came from a family background.

Country music's so about the nuclear family and living the southern lifestyle and everything.

You might be a redneck if your sophisticated show-biz cousin is a rodeo clown.

I'm a country boy, and we're the product of our upbringing. As a boy, I was told that men don't cry.

That is something that I always want to do when I arrive somewhere is to know about the culture of the country, about the club and make sure I know what it takes to wear the jersey.

When I first got to Nashville, somebody said that [Kris Kristofferson and I] were the only two people who could describe Dolly Parton without using their hands.

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.

You come to a country music show and it's like a rock show, it's so different, it's just not what people think it is, it's really cool and I think that if people just give it a chance they'd see that it's really cool and I think that's what people are finally starting to see.

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.

In a country where women regard themselves as equal, they are not prepared to see men running the show themselves.