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I think I first realized I wanted to be in country music and be an artist when I was 10. And I started dragging my parents to festivals, and fairs, and karaoke contests, and I did that for about a year before I came to Nashville for the first time. I was 11 and I had this demo CD of me singing Dixie Chicks and Leanne Rimes songs.

In country music the lyric is important and the melodies get a little more complex all the time, and you hear marvelous new singers who are interested in writing and interpreting a lyric and in all form of popular music.

Plus I love Tanya Tucker and I love country music.

I had to make a drastic change at Sun Records and I didn't really appreciate country music until I went there.

It isn't reasonable to expect that everyone in the world is a country music fan. Not yet, anyway.

I think there's enough room in country music for everybody.

What we don't need in country music is divisiveness, public criticism of each other, and some arbitrary judgement of what belongs and what doesn't.

The tastes of country music fans are not limited to the narrow range defined by consultants and programmers and record company moguls.

Until MTV, television had not been a huge influence on music. To compete with MTV, the country music moguls felt they had to appeal to the same young audience and do it the way MTV did.

I didn't know much about him, and I wasn't a big country music fan. I listened to the Beatles and David Bowie, so I didn't know a lot about him.

Joaquin Phoenix

If you talk bad about country music, it's like saying bad things about my momma. Them's fightin' words.

I never expected to record again. I knew I had done everything I ever wanted to do. I was satisfied. But... all the time I'm watching the country music horizon. And I'm sayin' 'Lord, is there anybody gonna come?'

If you want me in the Hall of Fame put me in because of some contributions that I have made to country music.

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 never gave up on country music because I knew what I was doing was not that bad.