Traditional Country Music Quotes

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 listened to a lot of what my grandparents listened to: George Jones, Johnny Cash - a lot of old country singers. Patsy Cline.

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.

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.

Country fans need to support country music by buying albums and concert tickets for traditional artists or the music will just fade away. And that would be really sad.

I've always stood up for country music.

I loved Roy Acuff with all my heart, and I never dreamed I'd be able to meet him or see him onstage, or especially become good friends with him. For all this to happen, it's hard to explain what a dream this is when you love something as much as I love traditional country music.

I believe in the future of country music, but a future without roots is like a kite with no string.

I've been a fan of old country music, like Willie Nelson, Patsy Cline. I think I'm drawn to it because of the sense of sadness and sort of loss that a lot of good old country music has.

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

A lot of people that I've met who don't like country music just haven't been introduced to the old country.

George Jones was a big, huge name in our household. George Jones-he is considered country, but in every genre he is known. Everybody knows George Jones. But George has such a unique voice. And he made such timeless songs, like "Color of the Blues", just real hard-core country stuff.

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.

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

You know, traditional country music is something that's going to be around forever.

The truth of country music, the real stuff, will prevail ..... generation after generation.

I love to listen to traditional country music. That's where I get a lot of inspiration.

I am probably the last of a generation able to gain an education in country music by osmosis, by sitting in a '64 Ford banging the buttons on the radio.

One of the most quotable guys ever in country music was Grandpa Jones.

I've never turned my back on country music.

A lot of people like mainstream country because they're not given another option of country music to like that's modern.

I got to where I couldn't listen to country radio. Country music is supposed to have steel and fiddle. When I hear country music, it should be country.

I don't care what's happening in the mainstream of country music. I haven't in a long time.

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