Country Influence Quotes

We didn't have the Grand Ole Opry or country radio stations in Nova Scotia when I was growing up.

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.

The other guys in Hootie were into rock. I brought the country influence.

I was always the pop guy that was a little too country. I talked a little too country; I brought the country artists in.

Even a single Justice can have a profound impact on the country.

Lee Ann Womack is from near where I grew up in East Texas, so I've always looked up to her. I sang a lot of Dolly Parton as a kid and a lot of traditional western swing, like Patsy Cline and Roy Rogers.

My voice is very country, and my songwriting is very country.

When you have difficult issues on the table for discussion, then sometimes for Africa you may have Burundi or Gambia representing them on the Security Council; and then for Latin America you may have a country like Costa Rica, which is a wonderful country but they don't have the same weight as others from the other regions. And sometimes they get bullied. Sometimes their capitals come under lots of pressure to take a position.

Maybe Iraq will come back and become the dominant power among Arab countries. That seems to me as conceivable.

Some people say I'm kinda country, but I like to take risks on fashion. I kinda go left sometimes, so you can get a taste of my personality.

I am from the country, and I grew up mostly influenced by country music.

The core of me is country. It's what I love. It's what I write. Even when I sing pop stuff, I'm still singing it 'countrily.'

We should not replicate the situation where one country is in a situation to hijack the rest of Europe because they organize a referendum.

If people would've heard what we were doing back in the clubs in the late '90s, they would be really shocked to find out how country our sound really was back then.

I was a folk singer who became totally over the edge with country music. I found my voice and style working with Gram Parsons. I learned how to listen to George Jones records and the Louvin Brothers.

I'm well aware that the Internet is global and can't be wholly affected by any one country. But the United States has outsized influence.

On so many issues, California leads the country.