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But an innovation, to grow organically from within, has to be based on an intact tradition, so our idea is to bring together musicians who represent all these traditions, in workshops, festivals, and concerts, to see how we can connect with each other in music.

That's what I so admired about Johnny Cash and June Carter. Their music wasn't a big influence on me. It was their character, their individual styles, what they were like as people. They weren't afraid to stick out.

Me and my partner, Conway Twitty, cleaned up at the 1972 Country Music Association Awards.

I know there's some kind of history to mountain music-like it came from Ireland or England or Scotland and we kept up the tradition.

I think Charley Pride has been one of the best things to happen to country music, to prove it belongs to everybody.

I don't like to talk about things where you're going to gt one side or the other unhappy. My music has no politics.

I've seen country music go uptown, like we say, and I'm proud I was there when it happened.

I was the first woman ever named Entertainer of the Year in country music.

A woman's two cents worth is worth two cents in the music business.

When I'd tell people I like country music they'd get this look on their faces. People were kind of ashamed of country.

When I first came to Nashville, people hardly gave country music any respect. We lived in old cars and dirty hotels, and we ate when we could.

It wasn't until my last year of college, 1976, that I decided well, maybe he's right. Delbert had been pushing me since high school to put 100% into my music.

People whose sensibility is destroyed by music in trains, airports, lifts, cannot concentrate on a Beethoven Quartet.

Witold Lutoslawski

Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.

My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.