I'm a country singer. I love all kinds of music, but country is where my loyalty lies. That's just me and what I do, and I'm not going to change it.
A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond.
When I had my television show, 'Barbara Mandrell and the Mandrell Sisters,' it was my high hope to convert people to country music. It is wonderful and contagious!
The first country to adopt happiness as an official goal of public policy is the tiny little country of Bhutan in Asia near China and India.
I think that both men, Bush and Blair, will be damned in history. Both men have made their respective countries the two most hated countries in the world.
Right around the end of the fifties, college students and young people in general, began to realize that this music was almost like a history of our country - this music contained the real history of the people of this country.
When your dad is a country music fan and you take long car trips, you become one too.
I love Nashville. It's such a great town, and I'm a huge country music fan. That's what I listen to on the radio in the car.
The country experience was more of a departure. When you consider my education and my upbringing, you can see that was more of country rock outgrowth of my popular music aspirations.
For me, the country where I feel good, where I feel in harmony with the lifestyle and fundamental values, is the United States - more than any other country.
For years I thought what was good for our country was good for General Motors and vice versa. The difference did not exist. Our company is too big. It goes with the welfare of the country.
Country music is the people's music. It just speaks about real life and about truth and it tells things how they really are.
My definition of country music is really pretty simple. It's when someone sings about their life and what they know, from an authentic place.
I've always been a fan of country music. It's America's music - I love the songs, love the lyrics.
I love country music, blues, and punk, and one day I might make those kinds of records.
Then, in that hour of deliverance, my heart spoke. Does not such a country, and such defenders of their country, deserve a song?
In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.
Rich countries have been sending aid to poor countries for the last 60 years. And, by and large, this has failed.
From my point of view it's impossible to cut debt in a country with new debt from another country.
We're never going to have democratic countries or peaceful countries until we have democratic or peaceful families.
Of course as a small country you're not necessarily in the strongest negotiating position unless you're negotiating with other small countries.
