Anton Chigurh: Would you hold still, please, sir?
I believe a relationship with a country is simply bound to the interests of two countries and not by personal issues.
I have a lot of respect for countries where the practice of democracy is highly developed. I think, however, that each country has to have its own specific features of democracy.
I started hitching about the country when I was 16 or 17 years old. I found the music that was played around the country - Irish music - had a particular resonance.
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.
If you talk bad about country music, it's like saying bad things about my momma. Them's fightin' words.
I'm nowhere with country music. I don't hear much of it, so I shouldn't venture an opinion, but when it finds me, it seems formulaic.
I definitely listened to country music. I don't think I listened to hair bands as much as I did Bruce Springsteen and U2 and Aerosmith.
I was feeling really restless in my hard-rock band. I wanted to learn more about storytelling in music, and that's what country music is.
In country music, there are certain female artists, like Gretchen Wilson, where you're going to find lesbians because they're responding to that more aggressive side.
But in those days - in the mid-'50s, early '60s - there was less than 300 radio stations that were playing country music and a lot of that wasn't full time.
I always know I'm a country singer, and regardless of where I've fallen into different places with my music, I know that, really, I'm a country singer.
When I hear bluegrass today, I hear so many new sounds in it. It's almost like country music in a way.
I don't mind putting my heart out there for the audience, and for the country music fans... to be vulnerable with them... that's my job as an artist.
I never gave up on country music because I knew what I was doing was not that bad.
My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.
Global interdependence today means that economic disasters in developing countries could create a backlash on developed countries.
Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country.
My parents leaving a third world country to a first world country and building from nothing - that's really inspiring to me and it's influenced me in a positive way.
The Prussian monarchy is not a country which has an army, but an army which has a country in which – as it were – it is just stationed.
But those were Frenchmen and you can work out military problems clearly when you are fighting in somebody else's country." "Yes," I replied, "when it is your own country you can not use it so scientifically." "The Russians did, to trap Napoleon." "Ye...
