Country Genre Quotes

When I had my television show, 'Barbara Mandrell and the Mandrell Sisters,' it was my high hope to convert people to country music. It is wonderful and contagious!

There's a great enthusiasm for good country music all over the world.

I'm a sucker for a good country song.

When I look at most lineups, especially in country, women are definitely lacking in numbers.

Everybody knows in the business how I feel about country music. I'm an old traditionalist. Then they just call me an old man and stuck in my old ways, but with all the fans I've got out there, I can't be all that wrong. I do love traditional country music. I love the good stuff.

When I was 12 years old, my dad got into country music. My first CD was Wynonna Judd, and I loved it.

I knew I was going to do a country album one day. But I was just trying to figure out for the life of me, what we were going to do to make it different, unique.

I love being a part of country music. I love going out and... doing things for the first time for country music. I always enjoy that.

I have such a deep love for traditional country music.

I love researching, whether it's old Western documentaries or old Western country singers or John Ford Westerns, which are heavily influenced by family values, which so many of these country songs are related to. I'm having a good time doing that, and writing some treatments and hoping to bring a new style of music video to the country genre, that is starting to become very poppy.

I'm from Tennessee. My mom lives in Nashville. I'm born and bred country. That's all I listen to.

Social topics may hit too close to home for people, but then again, if you pull a heartstring, then that's what country music is. It's not just songs about getting drunk and leaving your girl.

You seldom hear any young artists in country music.

People always say, 'There are plenty of black country artists out there! There is Charley Pride! Darius Rucker!' That's all they can name. They don't understand what we go through, and a lot of people who are fans of traditional country music, as they call it, look at us and aren't going to say, 'Y'all like country music.'

I think of a song in terms of lyrics and stories, and that's what keeps it country for me.

I think country has the biggest melodies ever.

I always loved country music. But I didn't even know I could sing. I just knew I loved the music.

George Jones was a big, huge name in our household. George Jones-he is considered country, but in every genre he is known. Everybody knows George Jones. But George has such a unique voice. And he made such timeless songs, like "Color of the Blues", just real hard-core country stuff.

Country music runs through my veins. I love it very much.

I love country music, always have and always will.

I'm more into the old-school country myself, like Dolly Parton, and I guess it wouldn't be typical, but I really love Linda Ronstadt.

The poetry of country music will survive.

The really pop country stuff can sound a little bland because they put in strings and horns and all of that.

I love to listen to traditional country music. That's where I get a lot of inspiration.

I'm a big fan of country music.