"The tastes of country music fans are not limited to the narrow range defined by consultants and programmers and record company moguls."

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"I think I first realized I wanted to be in country music and be an artist when I was 10. And I started dragging my parents to festivals, and fairs, and karaoke contests, and I did that for about a year before I came to Nashville for the first time. I was 11 and I had this demo CD of me singing Dixie Chicks and Leanne Rimes songs."

Taylor Swift, American Musician

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"Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder."

John Ruskin, English Writer

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"What kind of songs do you like? she asked."The ones that remind me of you," I said."

Faraaz Kazi, Indian Author

Music, Love, Truth, Wisdom

"That is what I did with Jack, and that's why he liked to do the readings with me because he knew I was there for him, and for our ability to blend the poetry and the music."

David Amram, American Composer

Music, Poetry, Ability

"Music makes everything more romantic, doesn't it? One second you're walking your dog in the suburbs, and then you put on Adele, and it's like you're in a movie and you've just had your heart brutally broken."

Jenny Han, American Novelist

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"A friend of mine, that I had known for some time, came up one day with an old guitar. I don't know where he got it, I don't know how long he'd had it, but he knew about two chords on it. He proceeded to teach them to me, and then we proceeded to go crazy over music."

Charlie Daniels, American Musician

Music, Time, Friend, Day

"I want to do a musical movie. Like Evita, but with good music."

Glenda Jackson, British Actress

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"I am pretty detached from the local music crowd though."

Mark Edwards, American Celebrity

Music, Pretty

"Right now I'm listening to a lot of different things but I listen to a lot of classical music. Eventually I would like to compose and perform classical."

Ben Harper, American Musician

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"I was just going more for what I've always been influenced by, European music."

Kip Winger, American Musician

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"I don't care what the religion is called; as far as I'm concerned, one God, the God I adhere to, is in charge of all of them."

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"What qualifies me to tell people how to act or what to think? I'm Charley Pride, country singer. Period."

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"It isn't reasonable to expect that everyone in the world is a country music fan. Not yet, anyway."

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"It used to be that if you had a pretty good record, you could stop by a station in Little Rock or Atlanta and let the DJ listen to it. No way something like that can happen now."

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"I was always a dreamer, in childhood especially. People thought I was a little strange."

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"Until MTV, television had not been a huge influence on music. To compete with MTV, the country music moguls felt they had to appeal to the same young audience and do it the way MTV did."

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"Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder."

"What kind of songs do you like? she asked."The ones that remind me of you," I said."

"That is what I did with Jack, and that's why he liked to do the readings with me because he knew I was there for him, and for our ability to blend the poetry and the music."

"Music makes everything more romantic, doesn't it? One second you're walking your dog in the suburbs, and then you put on Adele, and it's like you're in a movie and you've just had your heart brutally broken."

"A friend of mine, that I had known for some time, came up one day with an old guitar. I don't know where he got it, I don't know how long he'd had it, but he knew about two chords on it. He proceeded to teach them to me, and then we proceeded to go crazy over music."

"I want to do a musical movie. Like Evita, but with good music."

"I am pretty detached from the local music crowd though."

"Right now I'm listening to a lot of different things but I listen to a lot of classical music. Eventually I would like to compose and perform classical."

"I was just going more for what I've always been influenced by, European music."

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"I don't care what the religion is called; as far as I'm concerned, one God, the God I adhere to, is in charge of all of them."

"What qualifies me to tell people how to act or what to think? I'm Charley Pride, country singer. Period."

"It isn't reasonable to expect that everyone in the world is a country music fan. Not yet, anyway."

"It used to be that if you had a pretty good record, you could stop by a station in Little Rock or Atlanta and let the DJ listen to it. No way something like that can happen now."

"I was always a dreamer, in childhood especially. People thought I was a little strange."

"A black man singing about a blond girl was potential trouble."

"Performing is an experience, for me, that is as humbling as it is energizing."

"Redd Foxx was the same gruff old codger you saw on television."

"I think there's enough room in country music for everybody."

"Until MTV, television had not been a huge influence on music. To compete with MTV, the country music moguls felt they had to appeal to the same young audience and do it the way MTV did."