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I love everything from country to alternative to Blink-182 and '90s music to Dave Matthews.
SPENCER BOLDMAN For me there are two types of country: There's the shoot-yourself-in-the-head country, and then ...
AVICII One thing we have to remember as songwriters is that we have to consider that country music is the c...
RANDY HOUSER I don't think it's changed that much when you go on the principle if Garth introduced more r...
GARTH BROOKS We could say that people who eat grits, listen to country music, follow stock-car racing, support co...
JOHN SHELTON REED Country's hip; it's cool music.
RICKY SKAGGS Country music was the music I was brought up on. It's the music that's closest to my heart a...
TEDDY THOMPSON I think there's enough room in country music for everybody.
CHARLEY PRIDE That's one wonderful thing about country music - it shifts, ebbs, and flows stylistically, unlik...
STEVEN CURTIS CHAPMAN There's a great enthusiasm for good country music all over the world.
WILLIE NELSON Dave Van Ronk is not an obscure figure. He's the biggest figure on an obscure scene, playing a k...
ETHAN COEN I think the first thing you should know is that nobody in country music 'made it' the same w...
TAYLOR SWIFT I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES It's only the losers named 'Dave' that think having an unusual name is bad, and who care...
PENN JILLETTE Country music is still your grandpa's music, but it's also your daughter's music. It'...
SHANIA TWAIN You need the past as a guideline. The history of music is a good basis, but to escape that stuff, th...
JOHN LYDON The whole world has changed much since the '80's. In the united States, rap music and countr...
SHEENA EASTON It's hard to come across a true country fan in L.A., but it's true that the fans are so loya...
LUCY HALE Kentucky has always said you can't really make bourbon outside of Kentucky because it's a co...
JOHN YARMUTH We call an obsession with having someone's approval 'co-dependency;' the Bible's wor...
JOHN ORTBERG I see my fans as music lovers. I really love that. There's no age group or demographic. It's...
KACEY MUSGRAVES Undeniably, I'm a country singer; I'm a country songwriter. But I feel like I make country m...
KACEY MUSGRAVES If you talk bad about country music, it's like saying bad things about my momma. Them's figh...
DOLLY PARTON I love rock music, I love country music - I love all music, let's be honest!
FEFE DOBSON Where I come from you're not raised to think on your own. It's not that you're pushed to...
ABEL FERRARA Cuba is such a beautiful country, and everywhere you go, there's music and people dancing - espe...
JULIA SAWALHA It's always on everyone's list, like, 'What's New Orleans like?' I think people ...
SUNG KANG I'm a big fan of gospel music, and you cannot be a fan of rock and roll, you cannot be a fan of ...
PENN JILLETTE Hip-hop is the only music in the world where you can take any instrument and make it hip hop. It'...
YELAWOLF I'm really annoyed by the wave of country music that's just a list of stuff. It almost sound...
KATHLEEN HANNA Country music is about new love and it's about old love.
JEFF FOXWORTHY I don't mind putting my heart out there for the audience, and for the country music fans... to b...
TYLER FARR I like to sing. I write music. Country songs. You have to if you're in Nashville. It's part ...
JIM VARNEY That's the beauty of country music - you have to get out there and earn it and work hard. And wh...
LUKE BRYAN Social topics may hit too close to home for people, but then again, if you pull a heartstring, then ...
KENNY CHESNEY The blues. It runs through all American music. Somebody bending the note. The other is the two-beat ...
WYNTON MARSALIS Country music is me, it's what I've grown up with, and it's what I do.
SCOTTY MCCREERY We're definitely a hodgepodge of influences. Mine, most heavily, would be Southern rock - the Al...
CHARLES KELLEY I've liked country music for forever. And Buck Owens is just one of many country guitarists I li...
BUZZ OSBORNE I think it's a natural fit, major league baseball and country music.
JOE NICHOLS You've got to vote, vote, vote, vote. That's it; that's the way we move forward. That...
MICHELLE OBAMA I try to be a good representative for country music. But as a country artist, it's important to ...
LUKE BRYAN I like finding that common point between another song and my music. It's like between people; yo...
YAEL NAIM Country and western is the music of the devil. That's the real truth of the matter. My late Moth...
RICK WAKEMAN Music, for me, is just about where you're at, and that's always changing.
YOLANDI VISSER If you look in the Bible there's no birthdays.
PRINCE Everybody has their favorite sad songs. That's part of what I love so much about country music. ...
CHRIS YOUNG That's the amazing thing about music: there's a song for every emotion. Can you imagine a wo...
HARRY STYLES I don't like country music, but I don't mean to denigrate those who do. And for the people w...
BOB NEWHART This music is forever for me. It's the stage thing, that rush moment that you live for. It never...
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN The Left masks its distaste for the Bible's condemnation of homosexuality in a straw man argumen...
BEN SHAPIRO There's a place for all types of country music as long as there is honesty and realness and a re...
WYNONNA JUDD Country music fans are extremely supportive. Once they're with you, they're with you for lif...
FAITH HILL But, I still can't totally forgive Dave for blowing my world apart. DO YOU HEAR THAT, DAVE?!
K.M. SHEA I stand fearlessly for small dogs, the American Flag, motherhood and the Bible. That's why peopl...
ART LINKLETTER Country music is the people's music. It just speaks about real life and about truth and it tells...
FAITH HILL I haven't read enough of the Bible. You know, I'm saving the Bible for if I ever get impriso...
BARBARA EHRENREICH You know, every country needs another country to mock, and Australians seem to be pretty good at imp...
CALLAN MCAULIFFE For those who don't like Dave Letterman, there's Jay Leno; and for those who like neither, t...
TOM SHALES 'Lollipop Opera' is the backdrop to Finsbury Park. A place that is very thriving, interracia...
JOHN LYDON I dropped the 'Bundy' with my country music because I wanted it to be two separate things: T...
LAURA BELL BUNDY To me, country music's about life. It's about Monday through Friday. It's the blue-colla...
GARY ALLAN So, when you divide the world into music lovers, music fans and then those people who are just very ...
MICHAEL STIPE I do think it's probably true to a certain extent that you tend to sing music that fits your voi...
TEDDY THOMPSON I think the building needs to be used for economic development and I don't think Smoky Mountain Deve...
LARRY AMMONS You say 'African music' and you think 'tribal drumming.' But there's a lot of Af...
DAMIAN MARLEY It doesn't matter if you stick the name 'bluegrass' on it. I think people call things bl...
RICKY SKAGGS I'm from Louisiana, and that's where I got my start, in Cajun music. There's a huge musi...
HUNTER HAYES If something happens to me tomorrow, I'm going to go to Heaven, and that's for sure because ...
ALBERT PUJOLS Wine is similar to music in that it's a purely experiential realm, and it's a purely subject...
MIKE D I love being a part of country music. I love going out and... doing things for the first time for co...
GARTH BROOKS As Luke 24 shows, it's possible to read the Bible, study the Bible, and memorize large portions ...
TULLIAN TCHIVIDJIAN My books are personal: I'm not saying they're the Bible of music.
EDDIE TRUNK You don't ever want to devalue music. Music is important; it's necessary product. I always t...
ROBERT COPPOLA SCHWARTZMAN My dad took me to all the best rock and punk shows when I was growing up and music has always been a...
WINONA RYDER I draw inspiration from anything and everybody and that's what country music is to me... real li...
DUSTIN LYNCH There's a new hit rock group or singer every five minutes, but with country music, you have one ...
KENNY ROGERS I'm a country singer. I love all kinds of music, but country is where my loyalty lies. That'...
GEORGE STRAIT The truth is, I think country music... there's a lot of great people, and just being raised the ...
LEE BRICE That's the thing with all of us music geeks - music is the soundtrack to the things that happen ...
MIKE D I just thought, that's what you did -- you sang in a voice that was appropriate for the song. You wr...
CHRIS CORNELL A lot of country music is sad. I think most art comes out of poverty and hard times. It applies to m...
WILLIE NELSON I always tell the fans, 'Screw it! Like what you like. Listen to what you want.' Insisting t...
COREY TAYLOR There's pride on Bourbon Street for the musicians that work there. They take it very seriously. ...
TROMBONE SHORTY Producing a series is like being Lewis and Clark: You know where you're going, you just don'...
CHRIS CARTER Poems have a different music from ordinary language, and every poem has a different kind of music of...
C. K. WILLIAMS Orthodoxy is like an abyss of beauty that's just endless. I have read the Bible many times. But ...
TROY POLAMALU I don't like putting a name on my music. It's not just country and rap; it's got Souther...
BIG SMO Hopefully, people will rediscover real country music. After all, it's in my blood.
CARLENE CARTER There's this new band that just started with us called the Dave Matthews Band. My God! I mean, I...
BUTCH TRUCKS There's something missing in the music industry today... and it's music. Songs you hear don&...
JIMMY BUFFETT There's a lot going on in country music, with indie-label hipsters and underground bloggers argu...
STURGILL SIMPSON Dave Bowman: Hello, HAL. Do you read me, HAL?
HAL: Affirmative, Dave. I read you.
Dave B...
ARTHUR C. CLARKE We have that storytelling history in country and bluegrass and old time and folk music, blues - all ...
CHRIS STAPLETON There's no better book with which to defend the Bible than the Bible itself.
DWIGHT L. MOODY If it wasn't for Kenny Rogers, I don't think I would be in country music. He was that guy wh...
DARIUS RUCKER My grandmother loved country music, and she's the one who really got me into country music. She ...
JON PARDI You go down South, and they're quirky; they have culture, and it's not uniformly true of our...
J. SMITH-CAMERON The Hebrew Bible, while firmly opposing pagan sexual practices, nevertheless celebrates man's an...
MEIR SOLOVEICHIK That's why we do this. In country music, we do this for this very reason... to impact people lyr...
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DAVE BARRY Politicians are like diapers. They both need changing regularly and for the same reason.
DAVE BARRY New York Taxi Rules:1. Driver speaks no English.2. Driver just got here two days ago from someplace ...
DAVE BARRY Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large organiza...
DAVE BARRY Give a person a fish and you feed them for a day; teach that person to use the Internet and they won...
DAVE BARRY Never under any circumstances take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night
DAVE BARRY Camping is nature's way of promoting the motel business.
DAVE BARRY Fishing is boring, unless you catch an actual fish, and then it is disgusting.
DAVE BARRY I care about our young people, and I wish them great success, because they are our Hope for the Futu...
DAVE BARRY One day soon the Gillette company will announce the development of a razor that, thanks to a compute...
DAVE BARRY If you can't excell with talent, triumph with effort.
DAVE WEINBAUM People who want to share their religious views with you almost never want you to share yours with th...
DAVE BARRY Our environmental problems originate in the hubris of imagining ourselves as the central nervous sys...
DAVE FOREMAN Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons that you cannot see wit...
DAVE BARRY We believe that electricity exists, because the electric company keeps sending us bills for it, but ...
DAVE BARRY We are not meant to know everything, Mae. Did you ever think that perhaps our minds are delicately c...
DAVE EGGERS You sit at a desk twelve hours a day and you have nothing to show for it except some numbers that wo...
DAVE EGGERS It’s not that I’m not social. I’m social enough. But the tools you guys create actually manufa...
DAVE EGGERS Even in a country like the USA where fitness has become an obsession, most people exercising do not ...
DAVE WILSON Karate is a form of martial arts in which people who have had years and years of training can, usi...
DAVE BARRY We journalists make it a point to know very little about an extremely wide variety of topics; this i...
DAVE BARRY Life's real failure is when you do not realize how close you were to success when you gave up.
DAVE CHECKETT You can't choose what you're famous for in life.
DAVE KELLETT The English language was carefully, carefully cobbled together by three blind dudes and a German dic...
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