Quotes tagged ‘Country Music’

“Country and western music is about loss. Soul music is also about loss. But the difference is in country and western music they've lost, they've given up, they're just at home whining about it. In soul music they're struggling to get it back and they haven't given up. Every note that passes through…”

— Tony Briggs, Keith Thompson, Dave Lovelace, Chris O'Dowd, imdb.com

“Do you ever wonder what you'd do? When all the chips were down. If you doubt you'd do what a man would do when danger comes around. Then take the test to prove the case, if courage calls.”

— Jake Xerxes Fussell, open.spotify.com

“Hog meat... I've got plenty.”

— Jake Xerxes Fussell, open.spotify.com

“He'll die a longer river rat fool hardy canyoneer.”

— Jake Xerxes Fussell, open.spotify.com

“What's a man to make him thirst for the kind of life he knows is cursed.”

— Jake Xerxes Fussell, open.spotify.com

“Well, no wonder you're heartbroken; you've just lost the only woman you could even possibly sometime down the line perhaps fall in love with. I'm surprised the country music people haven't jumped all over this one!”

— Ken Levine, David Isaacs, Rob Hanning, Niles Crane, David Hyde Pierce, imdb.com

“Loretta Haggers: Y'know, Mary's been seeming kind of piqued lately, and I think I just stumbled on the truth of it. Mary Hartman ain't gettin' enough Vitamin L from her man Tom. Charlie Haggers: Vitamin L? Loretta Haggers: Vitamin Love. I think I oughtta write a song about that.”

— Ann Marcus, Jerry Adelman, Loretta Haggers, Mary Kay Place, imdb.com

“I started writing cheating songs when I was too young to have any idea what I was writing about—broken hearts and things like that. I just think it was something I already knew, something I had experienced in another lifetime.”

— Willie Nelson, esquire.com

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

— Willie Nelson, willienelson.com

“Ninety-nine percent of the world's lovers are not with their first choice. That's what makes the jukebox play.”

— Willie Nelson, willienelson.com

“He was born in the summer of his twenty-seventh year Coming home to a place he'd never been before He left yesterday behind him You might say he was born again”

— John Denver, open.spotify.com

“The old country singers, they were badass, they were the American badass people. I'm an American badass. At 40 years old, I'm gonna be a country singer.”

— Post Malone, thefader.com

“Country music to me is heartfelt music that speaks to the common man. It is about real life stories with rather simple melodies that the average person can follow. Country music should speak directly and simply about the highs and lows of life. Something that anyone can relate to.”

— George Jones, en.thinkexist.com

“Every time I feel I'm drifting off course You're my compass, you're my one true north In a mixed up world You make sense to me girl.”

— Rascal Flatts, youtube.com

“Every road that I've been down The only truth that I have found There's only one thing I can't live without You.”

— Rascal Flatts, youtube.com

“I have always been a little shy I've always been the quiet type till now And I never let my feelings show I never let anybody know Just how much I was so deep in love But now that you're in my arms I'm gonna stand on a rooftop, climb up a mountaintop Baby, scream and shout I wanna sing it on the rad…”

— Rascal Flatts, play.spotify.com

“I've been waiting all my life to love you.”

— Rascal Flatts, play.spotify.com

“You bless all my memories You soften the fall of my tears And in my arms you're more than enough.”

— Rascal Flatts, play.spotify.com

“The world starts to spin again, you learn things you didn't know then Feels like the bloom is off the rose But you weather a few storms and you pull out a few thorns And together the garden grows and grows.”

— Rascal Flatts, play.spotify.com

“A deep breath and baby steps That's how the whole thing starts It's a long slow beautiful dance To the beat of a heart.”

— Rascal Flatts, play.spotify.com