#country music

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. ↗

— Gretchen Wilson

#country music #country radio #fiddle #got #hear

New York City is a notoriously hard market to perform country music in. ↗

— Trace Adkins

#country #country music #hard #market #music

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. ↗

— Vince Gill

#country #country music #deal #i #i have learned

Of emotions, of love, of breakup, of love and hate and death and dying, mama, apple pie, and the whole thing. It covers a lot of territory, country music does. ↗

— Johnny Cash

#apple pie #breakup #country #country music #covers

Country music is just country. It's going to shift around a little bit, doing some different instrumentations, different production styles. But it will always come back to what you heard at the Opry. Nobody wants it to change. ↗

— Steven Curtis Chapman

#around #back #bit #change #come

What makes my approach special is that I do different things. I do jazz, blues, country music and so forth. I do them all, like a good utility man. ↗

— Ray Charles

#blues #country #country music #different #different things

As a little kid I had a girlfriend, and her boyfriend used to beat me up, so then I used to sing these songs, and that's what it's all about. Country music is all about your heart and your people and things like that. ↗

— Dick Dale

#beat #boyfriend #country #country music #girlfriend

Country music is the people's music. It just speaks about real life and about truth and it tells things how they really are. ↗

— Faith Hill

#country #country music #how #just #life

The artists in country music who stopped having hits are the ones who were led into something that wasn't them. ↗

— Conway Twitty

#country #country music #having #hits #into

I think it took me a while to convince Nashville that what I do is genuine and my heart's in the right place, and I love country music. ↗

— Keith Urban

#country #country music #genuine #heart #i