9 Quotes About Country Music

It’s true that country music is a genre of music. But country music also represents a particular way of life. It’s a way of life that celebrates the good things in life, and it’s a way of life that shows us how to live wisely and well. In other words, country music is about having fun, being happy, living well, and enjoying the simple pleasures of life Read more

Country music is about being comfortable with who we are and being comfortable with those around us. The best country music quotes are those that remind us that we have something to live for, something to love, and something to be thankful for right now.

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If you talk bad about country music, it's like saying bad things about my momma. Them's fightin' words Dolly Parton
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Sometimes I am two people. Johnny is the nice one. Cash causes all the trouble. They fight. Johnny Cash
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They only want to be there while you’re on top, and when you haven’t gotten a gig in a while and you don’t know how you’re going to pay your rent at the end of the month and the glamor they thought they signed up for is gone, they’re walking out the door, leaving you to pick up the pieces. Courtney Giardina
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Country music was the most segregated kind of music in America, where even whites played jazz and even blacks sang in the opera. Something like country music was what lynch mobs must have enjoyed while stringing up their black victims. Country music was not necessarily lynching music, but no other music could be imagined as lynching’s accompaniment. Beethoven’s Ninth was the opus for Nazis, concentration camp commanders, and possibly President Truman as he contemplated atomizing Hiroshima, classical music the refined score for the high-minded extermination of brutish hordes. Country music was set to the more humble beat of the red-blooded, bloodthirsty American heartland. Viet Thanh Nguyen
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Nashville has always been competitive. My granddaddy called it the Hillbilly Babylon. Hunter S. Jones
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Cause I am strong and I can prove it And I got my dreams to see me through It's just a mountain, I can move it And with faith enough there's nothing I can't do And I can see the light of a clear blue morning And I can see the light of brand new day I can see the light of a clear blue morning And everything's gonna be all right It's gonna be okay [lyrics from "Light of a Clear Blue Morning"] Dolly Parton
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Funny how a melody sounds like a memory. Eric Church
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I continued toward Atlanta with a Merle Haggard C.D. playing on the stereo. They weren't great hosts, but those guys in The Ted Kaczynski Fan Club had great taste in music. It was all classic country music- none of that sissy, boy-band country that they played on the radio all the time. I drove down the road while Merle preferred to just stay where he was and drink. Ian McClellan