Quotes About Country

It makes me proud not just to be a Canadian writer but to be a Canadian, to live in a country where we treat our writers like movie stars.

I think I was brought up with an innate sense of responsibility because my dad was in the Foreign Office where you were in somebody else's country, and you were aware of your behaviour. And my mum worked for the NHS, so you were aware of your responsibility to your country.

I like to read, walk, cook, and travel to cities. We live in the country, so we miss museums and the bustle of city life.

Most of my read on America is through looking through the front windshield of a bus and hanging out with country music fans backstage.

Baseball fans! Good lord! I feel like sports fans get mad at you easier than country music fans. It scares me. I'm glad that country fans don't get mad every time I mess up.

A lot of my fans, and a lot of country music fans, they still wear boots.

Country music fans aren't stupid. I'm not stupid.

The more the country starts listening to music instead of consuming it in the format of music video, the more the independent music will flourish.

After a foreign invasion, there has to be a sort of feeling of musical inadequacy in the country.

I'm a hybrid-genre person, which a lot of people find confusing. I grew up listening to American country music and rock n' roll made between 1955 and 1959. The Everly Brothers and Chuck Berry were my first musical loves and are still what I am most moved by. Roy Orbison came a little bit later.

In my musically formative years, I grew up listening to Suzy Bogguss, Trisha Yearwood, Terri Clark.

Emmylou Harris is just the biggest influence of mine musically, her and Dolly Parton.

I'm a country musician. I know how to play jazz, and I can play rock. But I've had to fight my entire career to get a little respect from people who don't understand where I come from.

Country music's always had the best musicians in any format of music, and I always gravitated toward that, stuff that was musically interesting.

I am a proud, British-born Muslim, and I love my country more than any other place on earth.

Anybody that believes that a country can be maintained that has no ethnic core to it or no linguistic core to it, I believe, is naive in the extreme.

My mother named me for Marty Robbins.

The Democrats cannot find Romney fingerprints on what's happening to this country. Every fingerprint is Barack Obama's, Joe Biden's, Nancy Pelosi's, Harry Reid's, Barney Frank's, you name it, Eric Holder.

I don't think I could advocate for increasing NASA's budget by a factor of two or ten, because I want us to have good roads in our country. I want us to have good education in our country. And NASA's budget is part of a discretionary budget, and we can't make that bigger without taking away other things.

Most of the time in Nashville, you're so replaceable. Anybody can get another nice-looking guy to sing a country song.

I definitely felt the desire to, like - I definitely knew there was an elsewhere. I definitely knew that, like, if I were going to be free, I needed to be away from, kind of, like, Nashville and kind of get out of the South and get out of the country.

I'll tell you, Nashville ruined country music.

Be in Nashville if you want to be in country music, because everybody that can help you is here.

Nashville's been like my second home.