Countries have lost their culture because what they wanted was money. Money became the running theme in every country and culture was sacrificed.
I didn't want kabobs, Afghan music, and rules that required girls to be carefully monitored. I wanted mac and cheese, country music, and independence.
My favorite songs to sing have always been songs about regret. I don't know why that is, but to me, that's country music.
'Nashville' songs and country music have always been about storytelling and about the heart and confessionals. They're monologues.
I get paid to lie to people as an actor. Country music is the one area that I don't lie. I tell the truth.
I'll never quit playing country music, or at least acknowledging it, always, as the cornerstone of what I am.
What I loved about country music when I was a kid was the Grand Ole Opry, was 'Hee Haw,' was 360 degrees of entertainment.
There's been a shift: Country music is popular music now. Every other genre wants to come over to our land.
I've always liked country music. It's a certain aspect of America that goes back to the British Isles and the influence is very native to America.
I'm a country boy, and we're the product of our upbringing. As a boy, I was told that men don't cry.
You want to represent the country and you want elected officials that are representative of the country.
He who wants what God wants of him will lead a free and happy life.
Planning is worrying, only in a productive, proactive form. Worry has to be a large element of planning, or else how could you project different possible scenarios, situations, outcomes, and probabilities, and then plot a course of action? A worry-fr...
Freedom is a place, an area. It's a higher place. There are some other people that are here, and things that are here which are unseen. But you first have to set yourself free and believe in what you cannot see, believe that there is something more o...
The hyena of your own country does not break your bones.
The king inherits a country -- the people only hard work.
If you are travelling in the blind man's country close one eye.
A drop of water in the eyes of the Tsar costs the country many handkerchiefs.
In your novels do you lie deliberately or just out of ignorance?" Laughter. A murmur of approval. The writer hesitated a few seconds. Then counter-attacked: "I'm a liar by vocation," he shouted. "I lie with joy! Literature is the only chance for a tr...
The good historian, then, must be thus described: he must be fearless, uncorrupted, free, the friend of truth and of liberty; one who, to use the words of the comic poet, calls a fig a fig, and a skiff a skiff, neither giving nor withholding from any...
I want to do what little I can to make my country truly free, to broaden the intellectual horizon of our people, to destroy the prejudices born of ignorance and fear, to do away with the blind worship of the ignoble past, with the idea that all the g...
