Music Debate Quotes

I guess the majority of people who want to ban certain musicians are the ones who are so proud of everything America stands for.

When I lived in Nashville, Tanya Tucker and people like that were coming up, and I'm sure that Loretta Lynn and Tammy Wynette were going, 'What's that noise? That's not country.' It's always been this battle where whoever comes up behind the reigning stars isn't country enough. There really is a lot more crossover now.

I hate talking about music, to tell you the truth.

For artists of my caliber, we're not played on the radio, so we don't really get a chance to get involved in that debate at all. We don't get a chance, because this weird kind of ageism exists in pop music. If you're past a certain age, you're not relevant. That's the kind of cliched term.

I think the world likes to pick apart different songs and play doctor with songs sometimes and make them into this big controversial thing.

I'm more in the Stones camp than the Beatles camp.

There's nothing more fun than debating and defending your taste in music.

I mean, you go to the internet and you can see all these conversations and arguments that our fans have about our music and that's wonderful to know, that people would take the time to be that involved.

It's funny when people debate about music, because they get so passionate about what they enjoy.

The first impulse of a great number of civilized musicians... is to protest ourdeclaration that the music in Hungary belongs to the Gypsies.

I don't worry too much about the fundamentalist principles that are in almost any discussion about jazz.

I don't like talking about music.

I don't think country music needs saving from anything.

My dad, the old professor, used to say, 'Never get into an argument about what's folk music and what isn't.'

Someone please tell me that we’re not seriously having a friggin’ debate over the genius of ‘Karma Chameleon’ at seven o’clock in the morning? (Xypher)

I loved our music discussion. I live for discussions like that. It's my favorite thing because it means that people care about music, and actually have an opinion. I feel like it's dying. Everyone is just really like, they take a step back, but to actually have conviction about what's good and bad: love it.