Quotes from Marty Stuart

In the middle of Mississippi, so many kinds of music came, but it was Nashville and country music that pulled my heart.

People shouldn't be punished for their wisdom.

I love old-time music, I love country music and I love the American music that we have to offer the world. And any part of that is fine with me, as long as it's pure.

I figure I'm a mandolin player first and foremost, and everything else I've accomplished is just a scam.

Well, it's hard not to love Hank Williams!

When I pick up Hank Williams' guitar or that first suit that Johnny Cash wore on stage, it empowers me.

Addiction is a crazy disease. It's a progressive disease when it's not dealt with; it don't care who it takes, and it takes it all. You wind up losing your house, your home, your reputation.

The history of country music is as important as any other art form.

Like so many other people I was raised right, went crazy but I always knew God had His hand on me.

When we lost Glen Campbell, we lost an American original. We also lost a really good man.

One of the most quotable guys ever in country music was Grandpa Jones.

Shaft' is a great country song.

There's every other guitar player and then there's Chet. He transcended musical boundaries for more than fifty years. God only lays Chet Atkins on you once in a lifetime.

Merle Haggard once said, 'I'm really mad at Glen Campbell because he's the most talented human being in the world.' That kind of summed it up. Merle didn't miss!

It is great to know that the lives and careers of country music's artists are being documented through the Hall of Fame's expert archival and curatorial resources.

I'm always on the prowl for the kinds of recordings that can inspire and potentially make a difference.

Coming from bluegrass background, I totally understand family harmonies.

I make no apology about being a hillbilly.

I can't remember when I didn't have an instrument around.

When country music is doing its job, it reports on the good, bad and indifferent of our human condition.

If you look back into the Superlatives' body of work, we've always included instrumentals.

Rock 'n' roll entertained my head but there was something about country music that touched my heart.

My local radio station, WHOC, Philadelphia, Mississippi - '1490 on your radio dial, a thousand watts of pure pleasure' - it was a beautiful station. And I loved everything I heard. But it was country music that touched my heart.

I started out in gospel music. A lot of people don't know that I started out in gospel music, and I've never lost sight of it.