“Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try.”
Mary Kay Ash
“Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly deaf”
Oscar Wilde
“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'”
Bob Newhart
“People ask me where I got my singing style. I didn't copy my style from anybody . . . . Country music was always an influence on my kind of music.”
Elvis Presley
“Country music has been here forever, but for years a lot of people who listened to country music were ashamed to admit it. What I really think started it booming was Ray Charles and his hit I Can't Stop Loving You.”
Loretta Lynn
“I don't think most people are aware of what a contribution to the sound of country music Buck had.”
Trace Adkins
“I've been in that situation many times, telling people why country music is important, and this is my chance to stand up for this genre.”
