Quotes about Modern Country

Mike Quigley

We didn't build the modern country to be bike-friendly - our initial round of infrastructure was not designed to think about how to get around if you're not in a car. So we've got to be targeting resources, both nationally and locally, to how people are going to get around in the new world.

Leon Russell

I like that old style of country music - it seems to me that a lot of the modern country music is rehashed rock n' roll.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Child marriage does not seem to be confined only to the mountains of Tennessee. The marriage of the little nine-year-old girl in that state, however, brought to light the marriage of a twelve-year-old girl in New York State. It seems inconceivable that parents should countenance a practice of this kind unless food is so short that one mouth taken out of the home counterbalances all other arguments. Certainly no one in their sane senses would want a child of nine to be married, and the publicity which has attended this marriage we may well hope will result not only in the passing but in the enforcement of laws requiring that children under a certain definite age may not be married. We have all heard with horror of the child marriages in India, and it is rather a shock to find that we are open to the same criticism in our extremely modern country.

Jon Pardi

I'm mixing country with kind of a modern twist to it.

Jon Pardi

I lean traditional, but 'Head Over Boots,' it's pretty country.

Dalil Boubakeur

Today, the judicial system of a modern country cannot hold to these savage traditions, completely inhuman for the young woman

While most Islamic fundamentalists supported the lower court decision, there were many who saw the tradition as having nothing to do with Muslim theology. While fornication is a serious sin, it is equally sinful for a man before marriage as a woman, yet the same clerics who rail against a woman committing such a sin, assume that a man’s similar act is “natural.” Modern Muslim clerics such as Boubakeur not only refused to use the religion to justify old tradition, but was particularly critical of civil law being used to support religious customs. The French Justice Minister appealed the case but the French left and right politicians who were secular were pitted against the French minority which saw the decision as the state finally giving respect and credence to the culture and religion of minorities.

Kacey Musgraves

The more country that my music gets, the less it fits into the country world today. It's almost like there needs to be two genres, modern country and... country?

Jon Pardi

I always want to have the traditional country soul while meeting the new standards of country music.

Andy Partridge

You watch the country-music awards that they show on the television, and you see country music has reached about 1985. It's all huge processed drum sounds and chiming chorus guitars and programmed synths bobbling along in the background.

Ryan Adams

The weirdest thing I've been fascinated with nowadays is the new contemporary country music, which to me sounds like very strange '70s pop, and sometimes like rock music. But some of the themes in there - maybe it's because I know how the songs were written, but it really does sound like it was written by two or three people, with the idea to appeal to the most general audience.

Modern Country Quotes