Outlaw Country Quotes

My country stuff, it might sound like Hank Williams - that's just the way it is. But I'd rather sound like Hank Williams than Trace Atkins.

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.

My favorite bands are Hank Williams Jr. and Led Zeppelin. When it's rock, it's '70s rock, and when it's country, it's '70s country. For me, it's the grit and dirt of music that I love so much.

Willie Nelson is not just a star or a headliner, he's a legend.

There ain't no justice, laws of nature rule this land. Better hide your horses, bury your whiskey.

I don't really listen to pop-country, but I like really, really old country that's closer to folk. Like Johnny Cash, who is considered country.

I don't know anybody who doesn't hate being called alt.country. It just sounds like a website. I don't mind being called Americana, I don't mind being called country noir, or independent country is fine, but the words alt.country make me insane.

Through the '80s, nobody cared about Johnny Cash.

Country music is completely punk-rock. It's the original punk-rock.

Johnny Cash has always been larger than life.

Townes Van Zandt ranks alongside Kris Kristofferson and Bob Dylan. He inspired so many songwriters to shoot for something that's timeless.

Favorite country singer of all time... Hank Williams... Well, then there's Willie Nelson. Can I have three? I can't do one. Then if I have three, I'll need five. Hank Williams for sure. Willie Nelson. Johnny Cash and Waylon Jennings.

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.

My earliest memories of music are probably my dad listening to a bunch of outlaw country, but also old R&B and Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin. But, you know, I had rock phases and liked more modern R&B acts. I've always listened to all kinds of music, and I like all kinds of music.

I don't like modern country music. It's not what I'm into, is all. I'm old-school.

Working with Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson takes you up another level.

The world has lost a legend, and I have lost a friend. Johnny Cash was the rare soul who could be both.

I'm a big Johnny Cash girl. And I love singers like Laura Marling and Joanna Newsom.

I admire those old road dogs, Willie Nelson, Bob Dylan. That's their life.

Townes Van Zandt is the best songwriter in the whole world, and I'll stand on Bob Dylan's coffee table in my cowboy boots and say that.

I love Marty Robbins, I love Glen Campbell, Loretta Lynn, Patsy Cline.

I like that outlaw crossover rock 'n' roll-country sound.

I like Loretta Lynn.

If I'm listening to country, it's Hank Williams, George Jones, Merle Haggard and stuff like that. If people out there don't take that stuff seriously, well, they just haven't listened to it and don't know what they're talking about.

We're kind of like the Kurt Cobain of country music in a way.