Southern Music Quotes

I think of people like Ray Charles, Otis Redding, and Isaac Hayes. They all came out of the South, and they followed a certain tradition and energy. That's no knock to groups like The Temptations or The Supremes, not at all, but they were way more polished in how they did things.

A lot of your rock people, even early, like Elvis, have always come from the South.

Atlanta is down south, the club. So the most thing played down there is club music. Everybody wants a hit.

Two of my favorite bands, Blackberry Smoke and Black Stone Cherry, I just think both of those bands are a good new progressive kind of Southern Rock that's a little different than us but still has a rootsy thing going on.

I never get tired of exploring Americana or country music, and I always have a little bit of a crooner in me that never seems to go away.

Bill Monroe is not singing about life in America. He's singing about life in Kentucky and Tennessee. And yet it's had this tremendous impact, not just in America but in the world. Why is Bill Monroe's hyper-regional music so universal? We can be so different and yet still share a tremendous amount.

By the age of 15, I knew over 40 Hank Williams songs.

In addition I wanted to write a Southern novel, because I'm a Southerner.

The Allman Brothers were definitely the group that opened up the door for the Southern groups.

The South just keeps right on playing good time Southern music.

The south is very focused on family... the musical heritage of Muscle Shoals especially and the bands from the region.

Oh man, I love what the South brings as far as the soul, and I really have noticed from even the early days of listening to OutKast and Goodie Mob that Atlanta and the South has a diverse sound to it. You have bounce music. You have soulful musicians. You have artists with vocals who try to do different things.

I got Jimmy Hall from Wet Willie and he also plays now with Hank Williams Jr.

A lot of my friends, they think I grew up to rock and roll, but I didn't. I grew up to Hank Williams, Jimmy Reid, Howlin' Wolf, listening to a race record, blues.

My take on rap is driven by straightforward American southern rock and blues.

I love Southern rock; it's because I grew up on it, and no matter where I am, I'll always be a Georgia girl.

I grew up listening to the Neville Brothers and the Rebirth Brass Band.

The day I heard Hank Williams for the first time, my life changed.

I know every Skynyrd and about all Johnny Cash songs.

With me being form the South, I wanted to make this album like a G Unit.

All the really great records or people who made them somehow came from Memphis or Louisiana or somewhere along the Mississippi River...And singers like Howlin' Wolf and Muddy Waters gave me the feeling that they were right there, standing by the river.

I enjoy 'down South' music.

We just dig Southern rock 'n' roll. It hasn't been represented well at all. So, we want to see the people in the South get their music out.

I'm a Southern guy, so Jeezy, T.I., and Outkast are always playing on my iPod.

In the middle of Mississippi, so many kinds of music came, but it was Nashville and country music that pulled my heart.