I think developed countries - so-called developed countries - should reflect upon the way of living and the waste of energy.
We must reduce the emissions 100 percent. In Venezuela, the emissions are currently insignificant compared to the emissions of the developed countries.
I think if you live in a country, basically you share the dominant values of a country although you may disagree on issues all the time.
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As someone from a developing country, I have a problem with rich countries thinking they can tell us anything, simply because they are giving money.
I have often supported Israel, I have often visited the country and want the country to exist and at last find peace with its neighbours.
The military might of a country represents its national strength. Only when it builds up its military might in every way can it develop into a thriving country.
I'm not technically adept at music, but I'd love to be part of a discussion of where progressive rock ends and country music begins.
Country music busts the wall between performer and audience. There's a connection because there's a vulnerability, a confessional quality, to so much of the songwriting. Those lyrics take you in.
There are so many music genres competing against each other, but I feel like country music has always been a unified front.
I'm treating country music like it's a sport. I'm looking at where my competition is and realized I needed to work on my songwriting.
And to me, I had come out of Texas, and during that time was when I realized that a lot of people in Nashville, their idea of what country music was was not the same as mine.
My wife grew up loving country music, so I always run songs by her whether I wrote it or if somebody pitched it to me.
There's a long tradition - certainly with country, but in all kinds of genres of music - to have humorous lyrics. Certainly with Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention and, if you look at country, Roger Miller and Jim Stafford.
One of the things that I think is such a constant in country music is that the song is so much a story. I believe it is supposed to be based around a story.
The whole world has changed much since the '80's. In the united States, rap music and country music dominate radio and that certainly wasn't the case in the early '80's.
That internal ache is the starting point of country music. If it's a happy song and I can still feel sad in it? That's my favorite.
Country music is still your grandpa's music, but it's also your daughter's music. It's getting bigger and better all the time and I'm glad to be a part of it.
There is a fundamental situation in which the country has reached rock bottom, that a mother can't send her children out of the house in the morning. The country has reached rock bottom and this needs to be changed.
I don't like crying. I'm a country boy, and we're the product of our upbringing. As a boy, I was told that men don't cry.
