Country Music Legend Quotes

I started writing songs after I heard Hank Williams.

I've liked country music for as long as I can remember, especially the songs of Dolly Parton. Her lyrics are similar to mine: simple, expressive, from the heart. Our voices are in the same kind of register, too.

If we all could sound like we wanted to, we'd all sound like George Jones.

George Jones is a national treasure and should be treated accordingly. A unique style so often emulated even inadvertently.

Who's not a fan of Don Williams? He's the gentle giant.

George Jones may be gone but his music will live on forever. What a great voice and a great friend.

Waylon Jennings and I had a lot of fun recording together.

Hank Williams' music - it just doesn't go away, for some reason.

There's never going to be another Patsy Cline. Without her, I don't think I would have lasted.

Bobby Bare is one of the greatest people in country music.

One of the first records I bought for myself was a Keith Whitley record. I still love the 'L.A. to Miami' album. There were so many things on there - 'Miami, My Amy,' 'Ten Feet Away,' 'Nobody in His Right Mind Would've Left Her.' I can put that album on repeat and listen.

Jimmy Dickens was the essence of country music and the heart of the Grand Ole Opry.

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.

The song 'Eastbound and Down' by Jerry Reed is, of course, a personal favorite.

Johnny Cash has only passed into the greater light. He will only become more important in this industry as time goes by.

At 82, Nelson (who wrote the song "On the Road Again," among a thousand or more others) is the elder statesman of country music, a steadying and powerful voice in the industry and on environmental issues, and he's still on the road much of the year. The music keeps calling.

If I could ask for any life, I'd like to be the lead singer and guitarist for Willie Nelson & Family. That is to say, Willie.

It's wonderful that whenever Patsy Cline's name is mentioned, people's voices fall and they become right sentimental. And, rightly so.

I had admired Waylon [ Jennings], but I never expected to meet him and get to know him. When I finally moved to Nashville years later, one night I went to a Harlan Howard Guitar Pull thing, and there was Waylon. He started talking about how much he loved my work and how great I was, and I couldn't even get a word in.

When we lost Glen Campbell, we lost an American original. We also lost a really good man.

Anyone who knows or cares anything about real country music will agree that George Jones is the voice of it.

George Jones will always be one of the most amazing singers who ever lived. He was a true Country Music legend who made music very personal to the listener – I think more than anyone else. He will be dearly missed, but always remembered.

Patsy Cline? Larger than life! She taught me emotion: raw, sincere, unashamed.

'Neil Young Heart of Gold', that was a valentine to Nashville and country music in the Grand Ole Opry tradition and Hank Williams.

I was talking to Alan Jackson. He had his second Greatest Hits album. He said, You don't ever get into this really thinking you're gonna make it.