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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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"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."
"Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder."
"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."
"I was just going more for what I've always been influenced by, European music."
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"Even now, when I'm asked how I'm doing, I like to reply, 'Pretty good. I've got all my fingers and both eyes."
"Any entertainer who tells you that the adoration of fans is not a heady experience probably never had the experience."
"Singing as a full-time job was not something I had given a lot of thought to and I had no clear notion of the money to be made in it."
"There is an intimacy about the Opry Theater that gives an entertainer a special charge."
"What we don't need in country music is divisiveness, public criticism of each other, and some arbitrary judgement of what belongs and what doesn't."
"For most entertainers, there is a single experience, one defining moment, when confidence replaces the self-doubt that most of us wrestle with."
"The time I spent thinking about how I was better than somebody else or worrying about somebody else's attitude was time I could put to better use."
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