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Vote:   | A woman scorned is an old theme in country music. I think what's changed are the values from which the music reflects real life. |
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Vote: | 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. |
Popularity: 2
Vote: | For every Mary Chapin Carpenter, there's a Sara Evans. |
Popularity: 2
Vote: | Growth-wise, it's blown up in our faces again, with Garth Brooks, Shania Twain, and all those phenomons. |
Popularity: -5
Vote: | I would hate to be a new artist or writer in town today. But somehow the cream continues to rise. If there's one who's great, he just jumps out of the pack like you can't believe. |
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Vote: | I've been here 21 years, and I literally did walk up and down Music Row trying to break into the business. I felt very free to go into any publishing company. |
Popularity: -1
Vote: | If a cassette comes in that has a phrase in it that winds up on one of their artists' records that turns into a million-seller, that guy's going to come back and file a lawsuit. |
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Vote: | Now, everybody's afraid that they're going to get swamped with people. They just don't have time to do it. then there's the fear of litigation. |
Popularity: -3
Vote: | Randy Travis and people of his era ushered in another wave of traditional country. |
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Vote: | Success breeds volume, and it's just amazing how many young writers, artists, and musicians there are in town. |
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Vote: | That's one wonderful thing about country music - it shifts, ebbs, and flows stylistically, unlike pop music. |
Popularity: -3
Vote: | The majority of the new country artists are small-town people who grew up in church - really middle-American, leaning Southern. I think they're reflective of the majority of Americans as opposed to pop or R&B music. That tends to be a reflection of one of the two coasts. |
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Vote: | There's nothing like a good cheating song to make me want to run home to be with my wife. |
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Vote: | What you heard there was country music. It's all very cyclical. When I was growing up, it was really country, then the "Urban Cowboy" craze kind of took it in a more progressive direction. |