There are calm Korean players and not calm. There are calm Western players.
I mix Indian instruments with Western instruments all the time.
I tend to score with songs from Western pop music.
Marriage Asian-style is practical, contractual and, to the western mind, deeply unromantic.
I was raised on Westerns. They were part of what going into the movies was.
I'm a Sydney suburban boy shaped entirely by the western suburbs.
Those who live in the country get idiotic in time, without noticing it, for a while they think it's original and good for their health, but life in the country is not original at all, for anyone who wasn't born in and for the country it shows a lack ...
I listened to country music my whole life. I started writing music when I was a teenager. It all came out country.
You see a lot of people out there that say they're country, and they do their little things that are stereotypical country things, but being country is a way of life.
In an underdeveloped country don't drink the water. In a developed country don't breathe the air.
I always loved bluegrass, but there was so much I didn't know about American country music in respect to the origins of this country. It was interesting to see the evolution of it.
Country fans need to support country music by buying albums and concert tickets for traditional artists or the music will just fade away. And that would be really sad.
When I'd tell people I like country music they'd get this look on their faces. People were kind of ashamed of country.
One thing we have to remember as songwriters is that we have to consider that country music is the country's music. That doesn't mean that everybody's rural.
I feel like fans who like old Southern rock and country, and more lyric-driven songs in general, have come to country radio. I think that's why you see country radio growing and albums selling: People are craving a little more of the singer-songwrite...
Oh, I think country has changed tremendously. I think country has totally changed. Country music when I was a kid was Hank Williams. If you put Hank and Elvis together, there wasn't that musical difference. But as the Beatles showed up and the Englis...
Since the early 1920s a unique spiritual path has existed in Japan. This distinctly Japanese version of yoga is called Shin-shin-toitsu-do, and it combines seated meditation, moving meditation, breathing exercises, and other disciplines to help pract...
Every country that's ever been the most powerful country in the world ceases to be the most powerful country in the world at some point.
I was into all kinds of music as a teen - country music, because my dad was in a band that played country, and whatever my sister and brother were into.
I don't like country music, but I don't mean to denigrate those who do. And for the people who like country music, denigrate means 'put down'.
I've liked country music for forever. And Buck Owens is just one of many country guitarists I like. I think Buck's Sixties records are really progressive.
