Country music tell stories. That's something that I can relate to.
Hawaiian music is beautiful and simple.
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.
I'm a sucker for a good country song.
Don't have much, but what I've got is yours, except of course my steel guitar.
I didn't really get crazy about Bob Wills until 1940.
I was always sort of mystified and excited about the world of country music. Something about it struck me as enchanted.
Songs like the Buck Owens tune, for example, are very simple and straightforward, and recording it really gave me a chance to get into and get a sense of Buck's personality, a feel for that whole Bakersfield sound.
I am a Patsy Cline fan.
I'm a huge country fan and am always inspired by classic country.
The South just keeps right on playing good time Southern music.
I do a very poor man's pedal steel on the Stratocaster.
Going back to the Byrds and 'Sweetheart of the Rodeo,' when country was kind of getting away from the fiddle and steel aspect, it took some rock & rollers to introduce a new generation to it, and it kinda put some things straight.
I have such a deep love for traditional country music.
I always liked the steel guitar. I also love the guys that play the bottleneck. But I could never do it; I never made it do what I want. So every time I would pick up the guitar, I'd shake my hand and trill it a bit. For some strange reason my ears would say to me that sounds similar to what those guys were doing. I can't pick up the guitar now without doing it. So that's how I got into making my sound. It was nothing pretty. Just trying to please myself. I heard that sound.
I discovered in college that country music could be fun adding some swing to it.
I enjoy 'down South' music.
My dad was a country musician, so we had David Allan Coe and lots of other country music playing around the house all the time.
Dorsey played the upright bass and steel guitar, as well as acoustic guitar. Johnny played acoustic guitar and together they were fabulous songwriters and singers.
I sing 'Blue Moon of Kentucky.' It's a country song. It's one of my favorites to sing.
My voice is very country, and my songwriting is very country.
There's just not a lot of guys around playing like that these days; a lot of steel players are plugging into stomp boxes, trying to sound like Jeff Beck on a steel guitar.
Country hillbilly music I love. Always have.
I'm no hillbilly singer.
Three chords and the truth - that's what a country song is.
