"The tastes of country music fans are not limited to the narrow range defined by consultants and programmers and record company moguls"

"Music is my religion"

"A company is only as good as the people it keeps"

"Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre"

"Music is the shorthand of emotion"

"My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary"

"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away"

"Music is the universal language of mankind"

"All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff"

"I've always been into melodies. That's what I love about music – a good melody that gives you goosebumps"

"Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music"