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I wouldn't want to cover a Hank Williams song in a country-western way. It doesn't occur to me instinctually to re-create productions. I'm interested in re-creating songs. Putting different clothes on them.

— M. Ward

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✓Similar Perspectives

Within the songwriting community, there are these unwritten rules for the way that a song should be written in country music, and I think that those rules are constantly being broken over the years, and the molds change and the process is evolving.

— Sam Hunt

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.

— Bryan White

We want to pull out songs from the American song book, and we want to make them palatable for a modern audience.

— Leslie Odom, Jr.

I don't live in the past or focus on making new songs sound like my old stuff; it would be stupid, and I don't think anyone would like it.

— Juicy J

There's some songs you can cover, and I've covered and butchered a few, but you can't do them all.

— Rick Astley

I'm a traditional country singer and we're always trying to make that a fresh and modern sound. That's always going to be the challenge with me.

— Joe Nichols

✗Opposing Perspectives

I'd love to make short film videos pushing the conventional standards of what a country music video can be.

— Sturgill Simpson

I want to produce a country album for a country singer.

— B.o.B

I would love to make a bunch of country demos and write country songs for really great country singers.

— Kathleen Hanna

I'd love to cover an 'Incubus' song. I don't think anybody in a cowboy hat on a country stage has ever done that, and I'd love to be the first.

— Dustin Lynch