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I wondered how people would take me being a country music singer. I thought about deviating from that and singing other things. But... it doesn't really make sense for me to try to be something that I'm not.

— Carrie Underwood

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

What you need to know about me is that I always just wanted to be a country singer. I didn't choose the path of television or being on magazine covers.

— Blake Shelton

Well, you know, people don't know me as a country artist and I am new to the genre. But that's how I grew up singing.

— Kristin Chenoweth

I don't sing country music because I'm not capable of singing other kinds of music; I sing it because I think it's the most beautiful kind of music there is.

— Lee Ann Womack

I'm a country singer. I love all kinds of music, but country is where my loyalty lies. That's just me and what I do, and I'm not going to change it.

— George Strait

I'm not really a country singer, although I did make a couple albums and love its simple, straight-from-the-heart approach, but I have always sung a lot of jazz, show tunes, pop tunes, gospel and blues.

— Dinah Shore

I definitely don't see myself as much of a singer, because my upbringing is really based around the guitar, learning chord progressions and that sort of thing. So the singing aspect of what I do has been a secondary adventure.

— M. Ward

But I have never wanted to be a singer, because the exterior part of a career, I don't like very much.

— Victoria de los Angeles

You gotta 'be' country music - you can't just sing it.

— Scotty McCreery

✗Opposing Perspectives

I always know I'm a country singer, and regardless of where I've fallen into different places with my music, I know that, really, I'm a country singer.

— Ronnie Milsap

Undeniably, I'm a country singer; I'm a country songwriter. But I feel like I make country music for people who like country music and for people who don't.

— Kacey Musgraves