Traditional Country Quotes

I grew up listening to Patsy Cline. I was a huge Patsy Cline fan. I still am. Even though she's considered country, I think of her more as a blues singer. She's got a great blues voice, and she has such an amazing story, which I always loved.

I listen to top 40, old country, blues... I'm really into Roger Miller.

Everybody knows in the business how I feel about country music. I'm an old traditionalist. Then they just call me an old man and stuck in my old ways, but with all the fans I've got out there, I can't be all that wrong. I do love traditional country music. I love the good stuff.

I love country music. I don't ever feel restricted by the genre.

I love Don Williams records. And old Ralph Stanley and Bill Monroe.

I am a Patsy Cline fan.

I have such a deep love for traditional country music.

I started to write a lot of ballads that were sultry and had a Norah Jones-for-country kind of feel. I wanted to bring elements of old soul music and old country music.

People always say, 'There are plenty of black country artists out there! There is Charley Pride! Darius Rucker!' That's all they can name. They don't understand what we go through, and a lot of people who are fans of traditional country music, as they call it, look at us and aren't going to say, 'Y'all like country music.'

My taste is very '70s, like Garfunkel and James Taylor, so not too far from country, but not really the mainstream country that's on the radio.

I think singing traditional country is wonderful, because I'm bringing it to my generation and to the younger kids.

With The Key, it was, I had gone through a divorce and losing my father, and just kinda really reminiscing about how much I loved the traditional side of country music, so I made a record that was really traditional from start to finish.

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.

I'm more into the old-school country myself, like Dolly Parton, and I guess it wouldn't be typical, but I really love Linda Ronstadt.

I grew up listening to everything. I was in rock n' roll bands and punk bands, and I loved bluegrass and country music, too. Then, when I moved to Nashville, I put out a very traditional country record because that's just what you do. I had a bunch of very traditional country songs. Next thing you know, you're a country singer.

I do think there's gonna always be a group of country people that are always going to love the old traditional sound.

I always know I'm a country singer, and regardless of where I've fallen into different places with my music, I know that, really, I'm a country singer.

I don't think you'd call me a traditionalist. But you can say I have an old soul, because I grew up listening to Conway Twitty and Hank Williams.

What I do is a little bigger than traditional country. I've been belting all my life, so I fit right in with the musical-theater style.

This is just strictly me wanting to make a record that is the real deal. It is all the stuff that I have learned and know that I remember. It's what I perceive as country music is about.

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

I figure the oldies are real close to what rocking country use to be.

I grew up listening to a lot of classic country, and I think that shows in my songwriting.

I love traditional country music, and I feel like there's a need for it and a want for it. But I enjoy everybody in country music.

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