Country Quotes

“Honky tonkin', that's my style.”

“Country music is the people's music. It just speaks about real life and about truth and it tells things how they really are.”

“The quiet of the country is a relative thing; it is quiet only to the casual visitor.”

“Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong.”

“You have to be a little bit of a masochist to be a country singer.”

“If you live in a cheap country, you may be a big man there... But if you live in a country where the standards are high, you may be a small man, but you are a man of that country.”

“The perfect country and western song... has something about mama, or trains, or trucks, or prison, or getting drunk.”

“A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle; and patriotism is loyalty to that principle.”

“Country music is about life and love and loss.”

“I'm still a country girl. I'm a people person.”

“The country makes me more paranoid, you know? I think the crazy people are in the country. I'm more comfortable in the city.”

“You can't call it country music if it ain't got a fiddle and a steel guitar in it.”

“True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.”

“All you need to write a country song is a guitar, a bottle of whiskey, and a heartache.”

“Writers have to have two countries, the one where they belong and the one in which they live.”

“Country music is the people's music. It's the music that speaks to the common man, and it's the music that speaks to the common man's struggles.”

“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.”

“True patriotism is loving your country enough to hold it to a higher standard.”

“I'm not a country singer. I'm a country boy who sings.”

“Country music is the people's music. It's about real life.”