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“What you need to know about me is that I always just wanted to be a country singer. I didn't choose the path of television or being on magazine covers.”

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Author:Blake Shelton

“I do think it's probably true to a certain extent that you tend to sing music that fits your voice. If you're Lou Reed, you're unlikely to become a country singer.”

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Author:Teddy Thompson

“I'm a traditional country singer and we're always trying to make that a fresh and modern sound. That's always going to be the challenge with me.”

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Author:Joe Nichols

“I would love to make a bunch of country demos and write country songs for really great country singers.”

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Author:Kathleen Hanna

“I didn't come to Nashville to put on a cowboy hat and pretend to be a country singer. My attraction to Nashville as Music City is the variety and flexibility: the fact that there's so many musicians at your disposal, so many amazing studios and talented people that you can draw from. ... I try to be myself, but at the same time I'm learning a lot, and I'm pulling from not only from the well of inspiration that I'm getting from Nashville, but I'm pulling from my roots.”

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Author:John Oates

“I'm not a jazz singer, blues singer or country singer. I'm a singer that can sing rhythm & blues, that can sing jazz, that can sing country. There's a big difference. In other words, I'm not a specialist.”

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Author:Ray Charles

“People ask me who is my favorite country artist. I say, you mean besides George Jones.”

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Author:Johnny Cash

“I came from an upper-middle class home, which is always a hard cross for a country singer to bear.”

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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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Author:Charley Pride

“I like country music. I'm not going to lie. I'm from the South, and I grew up on it. My dad was a country singer-songwriter, so it's in my blood, and I love it.”

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Author:Kim Dickens

“I'm not really a country singer, although I did make a couple albums and love its simple, straight-from-the-heart approach, but I have always sung a lot of jazz, show tunes, pop tunes, gospel and blues.”

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Author:Dinah Shore

“I'm from Michigan, but I'm just as country as anyone else. Maybe I don't have the speaking voice of most country singers, but it is what I love. It's how I've always sung, and it's what I grew up on.”

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Author:Jana Kramer

“I'm a country singer. I love all kinds of music, but country is where my loyalty lies. That's just me and what I do, and I'm not going to change it.”

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Author:George Strait

“I know that a Christmas tree farm in Pennsylvania is about the most random place for a country singer to come from, but I had an awesome childhood.”

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Author:Taylor Swift

“I can only say the first thing that pops into my mind is I remember, years ago, seeing kind of a has-been country singer working - when I first moved to Nashville - in a bar in a Holiday Inn.”

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Author:Jimmy Buffett

“Even though I'm a pop singer, I really have more the life of a country singer.”

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Author:Kelly Clarkson

“I think one thing you could probably say for all my albums is that they're all pretty eclectic pop. There's always a little bit of urban influence, some dance, a little bit of country, singer-songwriter, pop-rock. I like everything! On every album you can find that.”

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Author:Kelly Clarkson

“I didn't say I wasn't gonna do rockabilly. I just said I ain't gonna sing no song that ain't a country song. I won't be known as anything but a country singer.”

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Author:Buck Owens

“When I finally put my guitar in the case the last time, I want to be remembered just as a singer, not as a country singer or pops singer - just a singer.”

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Author:Eddy Arnold

“The Grand Ole Opry, to a country singer, is what Yankee Stadium is to a baseball player. Broadway to an actor. It's the top of the ladder, the top of the mountain. You don't just play the Opry; you live it.”

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Author:Bill Anderson

“I don't feel like God called me to be a Gospel singer. He didn't call me to be a Christian singer, he called me to be a country singer, and I just happen to be a Christian.”

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Author:Josh Turner

“There's nothing wrong with wearing a hat and cowboy boots if you want to be a country singer. But when you open your mouth, have something new to say. Have your own style.”

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Author:Pam Tillis

“There's no way to be able to tell what it's like to be a country singer until you're walking in the shoes.”

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Author:Tanya Tucker

“My dad and grandpa were in the army and as a country singer you're constantly playing at military bases all across the country and meeting soldiers and their families and hearing their stories.”

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Author:Dierks Bentley

“I love researching, whether it's old Western documentaries or old Western country singers or John Ford Westerns, which are heavily influenced by family values, which so many of these country songs are related to.”

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Author:Clifton Collins, Jr.

“We're definitely a hodgepodge of influences. Mine, most heavily, would be Southern rock - the Allman Brothers, Lynyrd Skynyrd and stuff like that. Hillary is more from the country side - her mom is Linda Davis, a country singer. Dave, he's a big fan of the Eagles and like that.”

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Author:Charles Kelley