#country music

I went to my dad when I was 17 and said, 'I want to be a country music star.' Which every dad loves to hear. And he said, 'I want you to go to college.' So we had a discussion. And I'm pretty stubborn. I'm a lot like him. And he said, 'If you go to college and graduate, I'll pay your first six months of rent in Nashville.' So he bribed me. ↗

— Eric Church

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The one thing I wanted to do more than anything else was sing country music. ↗

— Patsy Cline

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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

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Country music is so related to gospel. It seems I could go down that road pretty easily. ↗

— Dionne Warwick

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If I wanted to be a pop singer, I would have done that 20 years ago. I love country music. ↗

— Chely Wright

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I don't like country music, but I don't mean to denigrate those who do. And for the people who like country music, denigrate means 'put down'. ↗

— Bob Newhart

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I think I first realized I wanted to be in country music and be an artist when I was 10. And I started dragging my parents to festivals, and fairs, and karaoke contests, and I did that for about a year before I came to Nashville for the first time. I was 11 and I had this demo CD of me singing Dixie Chicks and Leanne Rimes songs. ↗

— Taylor Swift

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I never gave up on country music because I knew what I was doing was not that bad. ↗

— Willie Nelson

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I respect country music because I feel like it's more about the talent and the songwriting and I put on a big show and we have a lot of stuff, but I feel confident in myself enough as an artist and a singer that I can have all of those fun toys and know that we don't need all the bells and whistles either. ↗

— Carrie Underwood

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I wondered how people would take me being a country music singer. I thought about deviating from that and singing other things. But... it doesn't really make sense for me to try to be something that I'm not. ↗

— Carrie Underwood

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