Our behavior toward each other is the strangest most unpredictable and most unaccountable of all the phenomena with which we are obliged to live. In all of nature there is nothing so threatening to humanity as humanity itself.

It is only in the country that we can get to know a person or a book.

The butterfly counts not months but moments and has time enough.

I really like all music but mostly Country older R&B and the good classic rock.

Country music is about new love and it's about old love.

When I moved to New York I fell head over heels back into country music and probably 'cause I missed something about Texas.

In these confused times the role of classical music is at the very core of the struggle to reassert cultural and ethical values that have always characterized our country and for which we have traditionally been honored and respected outside our shores.

Put you energy into music. If it fails you you can become an accountant or a dentist. And then if you become a dentist or an accountant it's too late to become a musician afterwards.

What makes my approach special is that I do different things. I do jazz blues country music and so forth. I do them all like a good utility man.

Color is a plastic means of creating intervals... color harmonics produced by special relationships or tensions. We differentiate now between formal tensions and color tensions just as we differentiate in music between counterpoint and harmony.

Country music has always sort of been country music.

It means so much being a part of country music and the Opry.

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.

And why is our music called world music? I think people are being polite. What they want to say is that it's third world music. Like they use to call us under developed countries now it has changed to developing countries it's much more polite.

I do love country music.

I love sad songs. They say so much. I love country music but even the happy songs sound really sad.

Country music is important to me and I love it but it's not my whole life.

Though everything else may appear shallow and repulsive even the smallest task in music is so absorbing and carries us so far away from town country earth and all worldly things that it is truly a blessed gift of God.

I don't like to be labeled to be anything. I've made the mistake before myself of labeling my music but it's counter-productive.

Country music is three chords and the truth.

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.

I'm obsessed with the countryside: woods forests fields lakes mountains. I'm really into folk music and folklore. But more so I'm into electronic music. I'm into bands that have both aspects like Boards of Canada is a perfect example. You could listen to that type of music running through a woods. It's kind of what I wanted to achieve.

I've always said that Adele has turned so many people on to British singers - whether female singers or just like music from this country in general.

I think Ray Charles did as much as anybody when he did his country music album. Ray Charles broke down borders and showed the similarities between country music and R&B.