Country Music Revival Quotes

I started rocking and rolling when Guns N' Roses came out. It wasn't until Garth Brooks came around that I really got back to country. He made it fun again. To me, in country music, the rigor mortis was setting in and it just wasn't fun anymore. Garth brought everyone back over to country and made it cool again.

You seldom hear any young artists in country music.

I'm not really into alternative country - I'm into Patsy Cline, who lived down the street from where I lived, and old Dolly Parton records, Kitty Wells and that old stuff. I like country music. I also like Eric Church, who has a great new sound but also holds onto that old sound.

I figure the oldies are real close to what rocking country use to be.

I love traditional country music, and I feel like there's a need for it and a want for it. But I enjoy everybody in country music.

I do think that inside of country music now there's a very silent majority, and I represent that silent majority.

Shania Twain brought a whole other fan base to country music with her sound, the way the videos were produced.

I'm excited to be part of a movement that's progressing country music. There's always gonna be people saying, 'It ain't country anymore,' but I don't get into that whole deal.

It's all these young country bucks doing Skynyrd songs, which is pretty cool to us.

If people would've heard what we were doing back in the clubs in the late '90s, they would be really shocked to find out how country our sound really was back then.

There is a bit of a movement as far as younger people in country music. That is cool because people are saying things like, 'I didn't listen to country music until so-and-so came along.' And I'm like, 'Yeah! Now you know why I love it.'

I'll tell you, Nashville ruined country music.

Hopefully, people will rediscover real country music. After all, it's in my blood.