This is not a happy time for this kind of music in this country.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Country music belongs to America.
I'm excited to be part of a movement that's progressing country music. There's always gonna be people saying, 'It ain't country anymore,' but I don't get into that whole deal.
I would never do anything that makes the perception of country music worse.
There's only two kinds of music I don't like... Country and Western.
Country music has to evolve in order to survive.
Country music is worldwide - it's not just Nashville and Texas.
You know, traditional country music is something that's going to be around forever... I'm not worried about it.
There's been a shift: Country music is popular music now. Every other genre wants to come over to our land.
What is nice about country music today is that most artists are not trying to do something everybody else is doing. They really are trying to develop their own uniqueness.
Country music is just country. It's going to shift around a little bit, doing some different instrumentations, different production styles. But it will always come back to what you heard at the Opry. Nobody wants it to change.