"Country music is a black art; it has black roots."
"Country music fans talk about the '90s the same way that pop fans talk about the '80s. Blockbuster decade when the biggest stars were Gods walking the Earth."
"Country was never bigger, louder, more dominant a commercial force in a way that people don't even really understand now."
"The '90s are especially remembered for how powerful the women were in country music."
"In the late '90s, women in country music were bigger than the men in country music or any other music."
"Country music was not just for rednecks anymore; Faith Hill was connecting with huge audiences, mainstream audiences larger than almost any other female country singer had ever had."
"Katelyn Smith with Starfire, this woman has one of the most dynamic voices in country music I've ever heard."
"Country music is... three chords and the truth."
"Willie Nelson is a true icon of country music and he's been making music for longer than most of us have been alive."
"She's a country artist because she tells stories about her life."
"I'm going to play real country music, and since I'm playing real country, no one's going to play it anyway."
"One of the great things about country music is we get to write songs about actual people, actual places, actual events."
"I think it's clear that the Beatles held country music in high regard." - Amy Nolte
"I'm surprised George Strait hasn't been canceled at this point."
"We gotta keep going with this, you know, I wanna see more country bands change their names."
"Wise and talented Beyond her years Klein gave America their first female country Superstar."
"There's a lot of good country music out there."
"Old Town Road actually keeps the flavor of country in hip-hop."
"In the end, we can only paraphrase America’s foremost expert on gambling, country music legend Kenny Rogers."
"The epitome of American pop culture: country music is loved all over the world."
"He had a number of top 10 hits, like 'I Ain’t Never,' and 'Good Woman Blues.'"
"I made me a vow to the moon and stars, I'd search The Honky Tonks and bars and kill that man that give me that awful name."
"They've done something in country music that no one else has ever done: being a mother and daughter duo, winning as many awards as they did consecutively."
"Jeans definitely aren't uncommon but the most popular article of clothing to mention in country radio hits is dress."
"His legacy will continue to resonate through the chords of country music and in the hearts of those who admired him." - Tribute to Larry Collins
"Country music for me, because I grew up in Ohio."
"The most important country singer of the entire decade was Luke Bryan."
"This is the best version of what bro country could be."
"I promise you if you have a friend that doesn't think they like country music just show them this."
"Great to know that four incredible country artists could come together and form a band that lived up to their immense shared talent."
"A duet between Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton is a match made in country heaven."
"You know with artists like Jason Isbell and Sturgill Simpson and Chris Stapleton I feel like there's hope."
"Welcome to Circle, the new home for country music lifestyle and the Grand Ole Opry."
"Blake has expanded country music to embrace and love the genre as well."
"For a country singer and songwriter, it's just top of the mountain, that's what it is."
"You know, most songs are about love or heartache but uh, you know, country's always had everything in between."
"Hank Williams wrote some of the most memorable music in country music history."
"Reba McIntyre redefines the boundaries of country music."
"This is one of those country folk albums that is so consistently amazing from front to back."
"The Country Music Hall of Fame is home to the world's largest collection of country music artifacts."
"Not only was she a girl in country music, but she was a teenage girl in country music singing songs about being a teenage girl."
"They're not going to take my history from me, my story just to play into your narrative 'cause you mad about how I feel. Oh, she can't do country music? First off, yes, the f*** I can."
"We black people made country, and white folks just took it over."
"Man alive, that was nuts. Turns out people really like sausage, and beer, and country music."
"Nashville, of course, is known as Music City. Country music flourished here."
"Linda Martel has put some respect on Linda Martel, born 1941 American singer became the first commercially successful black female artist in country music and the first to play the grand old oery."
"George Strait is undeniably one of the most cherished and accomplished country music icons to ever grace the stage."
"Willie Nelson's life is much like one of his great country music songs, lots of tall tales with a fair share of heartbreak."
"One of the great virtues in country music is humility."
"Well he certainly belongs in the Country Music Hall of Fame amen."
"You know it's amazing what country music has evolved into nowadays."
"I think I think the soul of it you still have to have because I think the soul of NASCAR is very similar to the soul of country music it's it's authentic it's real."
"The Grand Ole Opry means everything to me."
"I love the Grand Ole Opry and I love what it stands for."
"Merl Haggard is country music. He's an inspiration to me, to all of us who are trying desperately to carry on the tradition that he started."
"At a time when country music was going through an identity crisis, Buck kept it true to its honky-tonk roots and he did so as an outsider from Bakersfield, California."
"I knew that I wanted to go to Nashville and put on those kinds of clothes and play Fender guitars and Martin guitars and get on a country music bus and do that."
"Country isn't all that bad. In fact, when it shines, holy [__] does it shine hard."
"Buck Owens, who's playing music every week on Hee Haw, playing great country music going into people's homes 13 million homes across America, entertaining people, making them happy, you know, and staying true to country music."
"In the country music industry, people just embrace each other and lift each other up."
"...as incredible as Loretta Lynn's rags to Rich's story was, it was her ability to write and sing about it that made her a country music icon and a Trailblazer for every female artist who followed in her footsteps."
"June Carter Cash's contributions to country music and entertainment remained a cherished part of her Legacy."
"Country music is the blues. 'I lost my woman, I ain't got no money, I'm walking over the flu.' That didn't come from Ireland, that's not troubadours out of England. That's the blues. These white horses are listening to the blues."
"Get into country music, it'll change your life."
"That's what country music is all about, feeling. You have to have feeling and you have to feel for the song that you're singing."
"when that started happening in the last few years that's when people started dancing to country music again"
"country music is modern day folk music"
"traditional country music will never go out of style"
"If you play a country and western song backwards you get your dog back your girl back your truck back your job back."
"In her illuminating memoir, 'Play and Possum,' Nancy Jones invites readers to delve deep into the intricate tapestry of their years together, offering a nuanced and intimate portrayal of the country music icon."
"Major A-list celebrities are making the switch into country."
"Country music to me is not only about music, it's about the heart and humor and what country people are about."
"There was definitely a sort of a country audience for kids who like myself hadn't really grown up with it, but Graham kind of made it cool."
"Dolly Parton is the richest jewel in the country music Crown male or female in facts she's worth well over half a billion dollars ladies and gentlemen."
"If you're talking about a country singer, they just ain't no better."
"Country music and its origin came from a place that's pure and uncorrupted by the rest of the world."
"Country is about being connected to something genuine."
"Country music was fighting music, dance music, drinking music, good time music."
"Country music is about reaching for higher and more and bigger and taller."
"Anyone country history x is a living, breathing history of the country music genre told through the wild, weird, offbeat, inspiring, heartbreaking, unbelievable but completely accurate stories of the music and its stars."
"...Ian Munsick remains one of the most interesting people in all of country music."
"...probably the most straightforwardly country album I've heard this year."
"Country music's evolved, oh my goodness. You go out, I told you, you could hear all kinds of country music."
"I actually think country's fire now."
"This is what country music is supposed to be about: bitterness, misconnections, and pain."
"There's a true revolution in country music with this nirvana-like figure of Zach Bryan."
"That's a massive part of country music, telling a story and engaging the audience."
"Hank Williams was one of those country artists who influenced so many other artists."
"Yeah, this is, man, there's some huge country hits that have been written in here."
"Charlie Pride's impact on country music was monumental."
"We were nine seasons at A&E, 347 shows that we did. About all 60 at CMT, but we weren't a little bit of country and a lot of rocky road."
"Country music can't do without you."
"We've come around, y'all. We've reached a point where I was, you know, at my breaking point and now we're ready for a country music award and we're just going to embrace it, you know, embrace the madness, see where it takes you."
"You fancy like Applebee's on a date night, flaunting your country bumpkin in the pop world. How dare you, Walker Hayes?"
"Alan Jackson believes in keeping country music country."
"Alan Jackson, you are a true American Icon and a giant of country music."
"That is the type of country music that I want to keep taking off in the mainstream."
"We are at the Zenith of this alternative scene in country music."
"Country music's in a cool spot we are having our Nirvana moment the industry is starting to react."
"Cody Johnson is like the face of real country."
"That gritty warm southern voice you are listening to belongs to none other than country music legend Charlie Daniels."
"I got the number one album on the Billboard country chart this week, this week I decide what's country."
"With the rise of self-driving vehicles, it's only a matter of time before there's a country song where the guy's truck leaves him."
"I love your little tribute to Mini Pearl."
"That's the biggest cowboy song. This is awesome."
"That's the bare bones of country music."
"It's the history of country music all in one really, really catchy riff."
"Getting inducted to the Country Music Hall of Fame is the highest honor a country music artist can receive."
"Thank you for joining us for what I think you will agree is a piece of country music history."
"What do you get when you play country music backwards? You get your home back, your wife back, your car back, your dog back."
"Country music has always been the music of regular folk."
"I think country did a lot of work remembering what makes it special this year."
"Country fans are everywhere. I think it's more relatable than a lot of stuff."
"The American country singer who became one of the best-selling pop stars in the world."
"With Carrie Underwood, Reba McEntire, and Martina McBride for a touching holiday concert."
"I'm going to argue the greatest country singer of all time, with all apologies to George Jones and Hank Williams."
"I love country music, it makes me cry."
"Might have a little dirt on my boots, but I'm taking you uptown tonight."
"If you sing a country music song backwards, you get your wife back, your dog back."
"You're as smooth as Tennessee whiskey, you're as sweet as strawberry wine."
"At the core of country is the same message: Faith, Family, real life, real stories."
"Merle Haggard continues to sing the songs that touch the hearts of millions of Americans."
"Bill Anderson is the most recorded songwriter in the history of country music."
"It introduced a lot of people to country music that ordinarily would not listen to country music."
"The truth of country music, the real stuff, will prevail."
"If you're a big fan of old country music, it would be impossible to not know who Alan Jackson is."
"My grandfather listened to Merle Haggard, Hank Williams, Hank Williams Jr., and all of the greats."
"He wanted the best for everybody and he loved his family and he loved his country music family and he loved his fans like nobody else."
"If there was ever a Mount Rushmore of country music, Charlie Daniels would be on that mountain."
"Country music fans are by far the most loyal."
"With country music, the dreadnought would move out of a band's rhythm section and take its rightful place at the front of the stage."
"I had a huge imagination and dreamed about wanting to be a mommy and a wife but also a country star."
"This album is just a beautiful reminder of how great country music can be."
"We are the die-hard country fans; we live and breathe this stuff."
"Brooks and Dunn know what the average country fan wants, and they deliver it in bushels."
"Brooks and Dunn's music featured rollicking real instruments, some of the best vocals ever recorded in country music, and above all else, it had fun."
"Ask any country fan what's the most hallowed era of country music, and they're going to tell you '90s country."
"90s country just holds a special place in most country fans' hearts."
"I mean, Garth was flying, Shania Twain was rocking her leopard print, Alan Jackson was water skiing in boots."
"Brooks and Dunn has been the most influential legacy act in the coolest country music of today."
"So I guess the '90s never went out of style."
"Country music has a tradition of telling a story with a song and staying focused on the song."
"Country music was about people, people and the people they loved."
"I love country music, they're so not like surface lyrics."
"It's one of the greatest country songs of all time."
"I love country music. Country music is definitely my favorite genre."
"Country music loves talented people."
"Ohio is a home of surprisingly a large number of country music legends."
"Tonight is really about women in country music."
"We're truly country music's biggest fans, and this is country music's biggest night."
"I'm toasting to the women of country music."
"We're toasting to the women of country music."
"We're toasting to women in country music and Dolly Parton for getting me here."
"We are country music's biggest fans on this, just country music's biggest night."
"I'm toasting to country damn music and female country music."
"You hear it all the time in blues and in country."
"It's this culture of people pretending that country music isn't good, and I'm so sick of it."
"Christmas country sounds like a fabulous Hallmark movie in Nashville."
"I love country music; they just be having a good time."
"It's super famous for being the place where country music legends were made and certified."
"Elvis's revolutionary musical mix always had country as a key ingredient."
"Roy Rogers often dubbed the king of the Cowboys is a name deeply etched in the annals of country music and classic western films."
"He's one of my top five favorite contestants which says a lot, so I know if I'm into him, other like true country fans have to be loving him."
"Country music fans can also use the Randy Travis drinks cold beer mnemonic."
"I'm so happy that people with talent who can actually sing country music are finally getting the recognition they deserve."
"My father always would tell me, 'Mike, play the hillbilly music,' because the country music on this is really fun with the fiddle."
"I'm a member of the Grand Ole Opry, you know, in Nashville, Tennessee."
"There is no question that Randy changed the game and helped shape a sound of country music that still lives on to this day."
"Randy Travis released his debut major label studio album and arguably one of the most important albums in country music, Storms of Life."
"It's a real gift to have this resource that really traces throughout the entire 20th century the history of country music."
"Radio shows were the lifeblood of country music."
"It proves that there is an audience that will accept an organic solid country song beyond Nashville just chasing the pop trends."
"I got Willie, Waylon, and Woody Guthrie."
"Oh where are you tonight? Why did you leave me here all alone? I searched the world over and thought I'd found true love. You met another and you were gone."
"Country music deals with the darkest, most raw stuff on the planet."
"Home to country music and hot chicken, but amongst the honky-tonks is a town full of terrifying ghosts."
"Being a country western music star had always been his dream, and it was a good life."
"I tell stories, well you're singing country music, yeah, but I'm telling stories."
"That's something that you always get in country music, is that foundation in the meaning of the song and the artist telling a story."
"It's the center of our music in terms of country music and roots music in general."
"Conway and Loretta Lynn, what a pair, and if you haven't heard 'Louisiana Woman, Mississippi Man', that is a country standard right there."
"Brad Paisley also has that heart in the man, that pure country soul."
"Pride's journey from the South's cotton fields to become the first black superstar in country music personified the American dream."
"While Charlie Pride wasn't the first black artist in country music, he achieved heights that early black singers and musicians in the genre were not able to achieve."
"I love some good old country, y'all."
"She kind of looks like a country icon."
"Country music is often referred to as three chords and the truth."
"Your life is technically like a country song where everything that can go wrong will."
"This is Nashville, the country music capital of the world."
"Biggest Milestone ever is becoming a brick in the building blocks of country music."
"Make me an angel that flies from Montgomery, make me a poster of an old rodeo."
"The most beloved singing Cowboy in the country."
"Anything but country... hold on now, there's some good country songs out there."
"Country music is about songwriting, telling the story."
"Having someone as big as Beyoncé shine the spotlight on country music is a big deal."