Country music Quotes

“Country music was the most segregated kind of music in America, where even whites played jazz and even blacks sang in the opera. Something like country music was what lynch mobs must have enjoyed while stringing up their black victims. Country music was not necessarily lynching music, but no other music could be imagined as lynching’s accompaniment. Beethoven’s Ninth was the opus for Nazis, concentration camp commanders, and possibly President Truman as he contemplated atomizing Hiroshima, classical music the refined score for the high-minded extermination of brutish hordes. Country music was set to the more humble beat of the red-blooded, bloodthirsty American heartland.”

“Country music was the most segregated kind of music in America, where even whites played jazz and even blacks sang in the opera. Something like country music was what lynch mobs must have enjoyed while stringing up their black victims. Country music was not necessarily lynching music, but no other music could be imagined as lynching’s accompaniment. Beethoven’s Ninth was the opus for Nazis, concentration camp commanders, and possibly President Truman as he contemplated atomizing Hiroshima, classical music the refined score for the high-minded extermination of brutish hordes. Country music was set to the more humble beat of the red-blooded, bloodthirsty American heartland.”

“Country music has to evolve in order to survive.”

“Miranda raised her eyebrows. Apparently she hadn't figured me for a country music fan. I liked her for that.”

“Country music is three chords and the truth.”

“Country music is the poetry of the American spirit.”

“I was into all kinds of music as a teen - country music, because my dad was in a band that played country, and whatever my sister and brother were into.”

“I listen to a lot of really old western and country music. There's a lot of cool stuff in there... all the heartbreak of the country darkness.”

“In country music, one of the ways we may have gone wrong in the past is trying to be politically correct all the time.”

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

“I couldn't do country, with all due respect to all country music artists. My parents dressed me up with a cowboy hat and we'd go to the rodeo when I was younger and it traumatized me for life.”