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.
Beautiful surroundings, the society of learned men, the charm of noble women, the graces of art, could not make up for the loss of those light-hearted mornings of the desert, for that wind that made one a boy again. He had noticed that this peculiar ...
There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own. Nobody. You built a factory out there? Good for you. But I want to be clear: You moved your goods to market on the roads the rest of us paid for. You hired workers the rest of us paid to educat...
The range and variety of Chaucer's English did much to establish English as a national language. Chaucer also contributed much to the formation of a standard English based on the dialect of the East Midlands region which was basically the dialect of ...
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I have been branded with folly and madness for attempting what the world calls impossibilities, and even from the great engineer, the late , who said ... that I deserved hanging for bringing into use the high-pressure engine. This has so far been my ...
We to believe. Young students try to believe in older authors, constituents try to believe in their congressmen, countries try to believe in their statesmen, but they . Too many voices, too much scattered, illogical, ill-considered criticism. It's wo...
But I do think that we approach music, in of itself, with a religious attitude.
Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.
Let me explain something: I'm not incredibly rich.
When you're rich you don't write checks.
