Music is the universal language no matter the country we are born in or the color of our skin. Bring us all together.
Canada’s the best country in the world.
Sure I wave the American flag. Do you know a better flag to wave? Sure I love my country with all her faults. I’m not ashamed of that, never have been, never will be.
My hope and prayer is that everyone know and love our country for what she really is and what she stands for.
It’s kind of a sad thing when a normal love of country makes you a super patriot. I do think we have a pretty wonderful country, and I thank God that He chose me to live here.
People are always talking about the dumbing down of the country.
When you travel around the country, you see what a tough town New York is: rude, competitive, a town where good, logical ideas are ignored in favor of unworkable ones. And yet, all these other towns are so dead and boring compared to New York.
When you work from city to city or country to country, you work the same way; the working method is the same.
I, interestingly, had dated a woman in the Eisenhower Administration briefly, and it was ironic to me ’cause I was trying to do toher what Eisenhower has been doing to the country for the last eight years.
The whole country was tied together by radio. We all experienced the same heroes and comedians and singers. They were giants.
Don’t you see the rest of the country looks upon New York like we’re left-wing, communist, Jewish, homosexual pornographers? I think of us that way sometimes and I live here.
A song is like a dream, and you try to make it come true. They’re like strange countries that you have to enter.
I started writing songs after I heard Hank Williams.
I love Country Music but what happened to it?
The cavalries charged and the Indians died, oh the country was young with God on its side.
So I cut off my hair and I rode straight away, to the wild unknown country where I could not go wrong.
I think of rock ‘n’ roll as a combination of country blues and swing band music, not Chicago blues, and modern pop.
Having hits buries a singer in the past. A lot of singers hide in the past because it’s safer back there. If you’ve ever heard today’s country music, you’ll know what I’m talking about.
Its just person after person in every different country that has a life that I can’t even imagine and has gone through horror that I can’t even imagine.
I want to work; then, as my kids get older, I want to have adventures. I want to visit all their countries: learn and live inside all their cultures.