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.
When did 'Ask not what your country can do for you' become 'Ask only what your country will give you'?
Every man who repeats the dogma of Mill that one country is no fit to rule another country must admit that one class is not fit to rule another class.
This is my country, that is your country; these are the conceptions of narrow souls - to the liberal minded the whole world is a family.
There are big countries and small countries, rich and poor, those with long democratic traditions and those still finding their way to democracy.
If in a country, most of the wealth is concentrated in the hands of the few, then this country can hardly witness harmony and stability.
No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country.
'The Hunger Games' takes place in Panem, a country which is part of America. It's post-apocalyptic. There's been a global war. The Panem country is what remains of this hugely destructive war.
...we have seen that the priests regard the state as an enemy to be exploited, it is only natural that our politicians do likewise. Thus, although patriotism is held in greater esteem in this country than in any other country in the world, there is n...
An old friend met in a far country is like rain after drought.
Smoke in your own country is purer than fire in a foreign land.
Incidentally, it’s easy to write prescriptions, but difficult to come to an understanding with people.
I have no ambition to change my nature, I merely intend to conquer my dislikes.
The attitude of the people proves that not only do we want to, but that we can succeed in pulling our country out of the difficult position it finds itself in. The banking system of our country will survive and grow.
