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• ‟ I believe in the future of country music, but a future without roots is like a kite with no string.

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• ‟ When times are good, we have tunes to dance to; when times are tough, we're supposed to talk about it. That's country music.

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• ‟ I used to watch those syndicated, black-and-white Country Music Television shows from the '60s with my dad. And all of those people that played on our television set, they just felt like family to me. And I believed in my heart, as a little kid, that I would be doing that someday and I would know all those people and we would be friends.

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• ‟ Well, I've always said that country music has always shared a very unique relationship with gospel music - the hooting and hollering, you know, always in abundance.

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• ‟ I love playing music with Duane Eddy.

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• ‟ I got to Nashville on Labor Day weekend in 1972. And the Grand Ole Opry is still there, the Country Music Hall of Fame is still there. And the roots of country music are still there. It's where the authenticity and the empowering force lies.

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• ‟ Country music as a genre, as an art form, is just as valid out there in the pantheon of the arts as classical, jazz, ballet, whatever.

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• ‟ I think the way country music is set up, we all came from a family background.

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• ‟ I've always loved gospel music. Being raised in Mississippi, it was kind of part of the atmosphere down there.

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• ‟ I love old-time music, I love country music and I love the American music that we have to offer the world. And any part of that is fine with me, as long as it's pure.

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• ‟ In the middle of Mississippi, so many kinds of music came, but it was Nashville and country music that pulled my heart.

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• ‟ It is great to know that the lives and careers of country music's artists are being documented through the Hall of Fame's expert archival and curatorial resources.

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• ‟ The stories in our music form a special viewpoint on the story of America in the 20th Century.

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• ‟ We need all those divisions of country music, firing on all cylinders.

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• ‟ I started out in gospel music. A lot of people don't know that I started out in gospel music, and I've never lost sight of it.

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• ‟ More than anybody in the music industry, the Staple Singers were like family to me.

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• ‟ Sun Studios was where so much of American music exploded from.

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• ‟ To me, all music that is made under the umbrella of the United States of America is Americana music.

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• ‟ My local radio station, WHOC, Philadelphia, Mississippi - '1490 on your radio dial, a thousand watts of pure pleasure' - it was a beautiful station. And I loved everything I heard. But it was country music that touched my heart.

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• ‟ Well, the things that country music is parodied for sometimes - trains, drinking, sin, cheating, redemption, jailhouses, rambling, hoboing, on and on, all those things - according to The New York Times, every one of those subject matters is still relevant.

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