“Country music is the people's music. It just speaks about real life and about truth and it tells things how they really are.”— Trace Adkins
“The quiet of the country is a relative thing; it is quiet only to the casual visitor.”— Hal Borland
“Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong.”— James Bryce
“Writers have to have two countries, the one where they belong and the one in which they live.”— Gertrude Stein
“If you live in a cheap country, you may be a big man there... But if you live in a country where the standards are high, you may be a small man, but you are a man of that country.”— Erich von Stroheim
“You can't call it country music if it ain't got a fiddle and a steel guitar in it.”— David Allan Coe
“There are three kinds of patriots, two bad, one good. The bad ones are the uncritical lovers and the loveless critics. The good patriots are those who carry on a lover's quarrel with their country.”— William Sloane Coffin Jr.
“A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle; and patriotism is loyalty to that principle.”— George William Curtis
“The love of country is a passion which has been found to prevail in every state of society.”— Adam Ferguson
“Country music is still your grandpa's music, but it's also your daughter's music. It's getting bigger and better all the time and I'm glad to be a part of it.”— Shania Twain
“The country makes me more paranoid, you know? I think the crazy people are in the country. I'm more comfortable in the city.”— Jean-Michel Basquiat
“The perfect country and western song... has something about mama, or trains, or trucks, or prison, or getting drunk.”— David Allan Coe