Country Songs Quotes

Country music is the song that speaks to the American condition. It's middle America. Eight out of 10 people. Maybe it's not the No. 1 choice, but they listen to country.

Well the country songs themselves are three-chord stories, ballads which are mostly sad. If you are already feeling sorry for yourself when you listen to them they will take you to an even sadder place.

I just always loved the storytelling aspect. Even with the production that's happening right now in music, I still think the core of country songs are very stripped down, and they tell a story in the most pure sense.

He learned through the way that my father and I felt about his songs, his country songs, that they were great songs. And then he went out and sang them for the audiences that we found, and he found a tremendous reaction to that.

I've always stood up for country music.

There were country songs I connected to when there was pain, when I saw things my family were going through. It was my way of acknowledging I wasn't OK: music tapped on the door; I could work out these emotions by singing.

I guess country music works better in supermarkets.

I love Miranda Lambert; I think she's wonderful. I love the song 'Love Letters' and 'Famous in a Small Town.'

The word matters in country music, and it always has. And everybody had lived those words in country songs.

He [Alan Lomax] started right off trying to find people who could introduce folk songs to city people. He found a young actor named Burl Ives and said, "Burl, you know a lot of great country songs learned from your grandmother, don't you know people would love to hear them?" He put on radio programs. He persuaded CBS to dedicate "The School of the Air" for one year to American folk music. He'd get some old sailor to sing an old sea shanty with a cracked voice. Then he'd get me to sing it with my banjo.

Cowboys had guitars. And they sang country 'cause they lived in the country.

My guitars, Cadillacs, and hillbilly music Is the only thing that keeps me hanging on.

I love country music, always have and always will.

I could probably recite just about every song that was on country radio between 1990 and 2000.

Working in bars back then, in the '50s, to get a job you had to play all kinds of music. There'd be customers come in and yell jazz tunes at you and yell rock 'n' roll tunes at you and polkas and rhythm and blues and country music.

I have a confession to make - I truly love country music.

All my records - 'By the Time I Get to Phoenix,' 'Wichita Lineman,' 'Galveston,' 'Rhinestone Cowboy,' 'Dreams of the Everyday Housewife' - they all had strings on them.

I've always been a fan of country music. It's America's music - I love the songs, love the lyrics.

I live country songs every single day of my life, so thank goodness I decided that was my passion!

I would love to make a bunch of country demos and write country songs for really great country singers.

Country music is full of affairs and cheating; that's where all those Hank Williams songs come from.

I have always been infatuated with country music.

I know that a lot of our troops like country music. I would love to do anything I could to just help them out.

To me, country songs are simple.

Laurie Lewis' songs combine passion and sheer craft in a way you don't hear very often. Whatever country music is supposed to be, she's at the center of it.