If you talk bad about country music, it's like saying bad things about my momma. Them's fightin' words.
In country music, one of the ways we may have gone wrong in the past is trying to be politically correct all the time.
Country music is three chords and the truth.
Cause I am strong and I can prove itAnd I got my dreams to see me throughIt's just a mountain, I can move itAnd with faith enough there's nothing I can't doAnd I can see the light of a clear blue morn...
Funny how a melody sounds like a memory.
Sometimes I am two people. Johnny is the nice one. Cash causes all the trouble. They fight.
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.
Country music has to evolve in order to survive.