#country music

I never expected to record again. I knew I had done everything I ever wanted to do. I was satisfied. But... all the time I'm watching the country music horizon. And I'm sayin' 'Lord, is there anybody gonna come?' ↗

— Buck Owens

#anybody #come #country #country music #done

Country music has become the music that best represents the reality of American life. ↗

— Brad Paisley

#american life #become #best #country #country music

If you talk bad about country music, it's like saying bad things about my momma. Them's fightin' words. ↗

— Dolly Parton

#bad #country #country music #like #momma

I didn't know much about him, and I wasn't a big country music fan. I listened to the Beatles and David Bowie, so I didn't know a lot about him. ↗

— Joaquin Phoenix

#beatles #big #big country #bowie #country

What we don't need in country music is divisiveness, public criticism of each other, and some arbitrary judgement of what belongs and what doesn't. ↗

— Charley Pride

#belongs #country #country music #criticism #divisiveness

The tastes of country music fans are not limited to the narrow range defined by consultants and programmers and record company moguls. ↗

— Charley Pride

#consultants #country #country music #defined #fans

I think there's enough room in country music for everybody. ↗

— Charley Pride

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It isn't reasonable to expect that everyone in the world is a country music fan. Not yet, anyway. ↗

— Charley Pride

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Until MTV, television had not been a huge influence on music. To compete with MTV, the country music moguls felt they had to appeal to the same young audience and do it the way MTV did. ↗

— Charley Pride

#audience #been #compete #country #country music

Country music historically has been sort of middle-aged people's music. ↗

— John Shelton Reed

#country #country music #historically #middle-aged #music