Some of the country stuff in the past has been so polished - if you were a guy with a nice pair of jeans, a big belt buckle and nice hat, you were country.
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When you really are country, and you don't just wear it like a piece of clothing or something, you really can't get away from it. It just is who you are.
I have become aware on my travels that when a country loses the connection between its history and its traditional dress, something truly precious is lost.
When I'd tell people I like country music they'd get this look on their faces. People were kind of ashamed of country.
I grew up as a country boy.
You see a lot of people out there that say they're country, and they do their little things that are stereotypical country things, but being country is a way of life.
I'm a country girl at heart.
Country music has always sort of been country music.
It never mattered to me that people in school didn't think that country music was cool, and they made fun of me for it - though it did matter to me that I was not wearing the clothes that everybody was wearing at that moment. But at some point, I was just like, 'I like wearing sundresses and cowboy boots.'
For me there are two types of country: There's the shoot-yourself-in-the-head country, and then there's really good country music.
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.
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