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• ‟ Only in country music can you compare an old pickup truck and an old guitar to your wife and turn it into a love song... Thank God for country music.

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• ‟ I got into rock music at thirteen, listening to Van Halen, learned how to play the electric guitar.

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• ‟ I think the great country songs mixed with some of that bluegrass instrumentation - and surrounding all that with a little bit of a rock vibe and energy - is the kind of music I make.

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• ‟ That's what I love about Nashville and the music community - seeing kids around acoustic music and bluegrass picking parties is the best.

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• ‟ Patty Griffin is iconic, and there's no other word to really describe her. She is iconic for a lot of people - not only for me but for a lot of fans. Her voice is one of a kind, and she's such an important figure in the American music scene.

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• ‟ Country music is always changing but the Opry is always there to serve as a lighthouse for what country music really is. The past, present and future is all encompassed by not only the physical structure of the building but also the radio show.

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• ‟ When you go to the Opry for a show or hear it on the radio, you get the whole circle of country music.

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• ‟ Most of my read on America is through looking through the front windshield of a bus and hanging out with country music fans backstage.

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• ‟ In my 30s, I became more open to music other than country or bluegrass.

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• ‟ If you got in my truck, you were listening to country music, and that's the way it was for a long time. I'm a little more open to other sources of music now, a lot more. But for the formative years, I was just very into country.

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• ‟ I don't think my music has changed to reflect getting married or having kids. But... if you want to continue to write your own songs, you've got to find deeper stuff to write about. You've got to go to different places.

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• ‟ I feel like I've got a nice little niche where I stay just below the radar, which is perfect. I just don't want to be known for anything other than music.

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• ‟ I never met Johnny Cash personally, but I feel like I did because I listened to so much of his music, and even though he's gone, it's still there: you can go pull a vinyl record out and hear his personal thoughts and his voice and feel connected to him.

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