Words matter. These are the best Marty Stuart Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
There’s every other guitar player and then there’s Chet. He transcended musical boundaries for more than fifty years. God only lays Chet Atkins on you once in a lifetime.
Well, the things that country music is parodied for sometimes – trains, drinking, sin, cheating, redemption, jailhouses, rambling, hoboing, on and on, all those things – according to The New York Times, every one of those subject matters is still relevant.
The first Nudie suits I bought were two hundred bucks.
The Ryman and the Grand Ole Opry, if you’re a Southern boy, is just a way of life.
The four things a hillbilly singer needs are a Cadillac, a Nudie suit, the right hairdo, and a pair of pointy-toed boots.
In the middle of Mississippi, so many kinds of music came, but it was Nashville and country music that pulled my heart.
The black church in the South is the home of rock & roll.
Rock ‘n’ roll entertained my head but there was something about country music that touched my heart.
When I was 12 years old I discovered Bill Monroe and my dad got me a mandolin.
The stories in our music form a special viewpoint on the story of America in the 20th Century.
I don’t have many regrets in my life. But I have one. I would have stayed sober all along.
Walking into the Ryman with Lester Flatt was the equivalent of walking into the Vatican with the pope.
One of the people I heard early on in his career was Eric Church. I liked him and his music.
He is irreplaceable. Even in death I have no doubt that Johnny Cash will continue to live on as an inspiration to musicians and songwriters and all of America.
I have a low-tech camera with one lens that I’ve shot everything in my life on. My subjects and my subject matter sometimes really are powerful, and so my job is to get it into focus.
I love old-time music, I love country music and I love the American music that we have to offer the world. And any part of that is fine with me, as long as it’s pure.
I love playing music with Duane Eddy.
My main electric guitar belonged to Clarence White, the great guitarist for the Byrds.
Well, it’s hard not to love Hank Williams!
I haven’t been to bed since 1972.
Anybody that looks at my photography, it blows my mind because it’s my last hobby.
The history of country music is as important as any other art form.
There wasn’t really a lot of difference from a Mississippi perspective between what Elvis did on ‘Mystery Train’ or ‘Milkcow Blues’ or what Bill Monroe was playing or what Flatt and Scruggs was playing; it was rock ‘n’ roll to me.
When I was 5 years old, I got my first record. It was ‘Flatt & Scruggs’ Greatest Hits.’ The second was ‘The Fabulous Johnny Cash.’
I think the way country music is set up, we all came from a family background.
As big as the industry is now and as gargantuan and stretched out with as many buses and trucks as there are now, it is still a big old dysfunctional family in my mind.
If you look at just right, there’s not a nickel’s worth of difference between what Buck Owens and the Buckaroos played on ‘Buckaroo’ and what the Ventures were playing. It’s all that twangy instrumental stuff.
I learned things by being in Lester Flatts’ band, and I learned things by playing with Johnny Cash, and I learned from Pop Staples. I’m a sponge.
Well, my heart finally found a home when I married Connie Smith, and I was tired of feeling bad. And it was time to grow up and get on with life.
I figure I’m a mandolin player first and foremost, and everything else I’ve accomplished is just a scam.
When I started making some paychecks, I didn’t invest in stocks and bonds – I invested in American culture.
I’ve always been a sucker for a truck driving song.
I’m always on the prowl for the kinds of recordings that can inspire and potentially make a difference.
I went out on the road when I was 12 years old, playing with the Sullivan Family Gospel Singers. That was the summer of 1972. We played Pentecostal churches, camp meetings, George Wallace campaign rallies and bluegrass festivals. As a kid, I had grown up watching quartets that were very entertaining.
I believe in the future of country music, but a future without roots is like a kite with no string.
I started out in gospel music. A lot of people don’t know that I started out in gospel music, and I’ve never lost sight of it.
It is great to know that the lives and careers of country music’s artists are being documented through the Hall of Fame’s expert archival and curatorial resources.
I saw footage of Johnny Cash and Elvis Presley just hanging out together in Memphis when they were young guys getting started at Sun, listening to records together. That was beautiful to me.
Well, I’ve always said that country music has always shared a very unique relationship with gospel music – the hooting and hollering, you know, always in abundance.
American Odyssey’ will be an amazing adventure inside the musical walls of our cities. It’s theater, and radio has always been great theater to me.
Growing up in the Sixties, whether it was the Batmobile or the costumes Porter Wagoner wore or the music that came from there, California was the home of what a friend of mine calls ‘custom culture.’ It seemed like the promised land.
We need all those divisions of country music, firing on all cylinders.
Shaft’ is a great country song.
After people work hard and cope with the pressures of life throughout the week, going out to a show or tuning in to watch some characters in cowboy clothes, singing and playing songs about real life is something I relate to.
Nobody in my school knew who Bill Monroe was, or Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs, and barely Johnny Cash. Nobody spoke that language. I proceeded to get myself kicked out.
I wish I could have been in the control room at Capitol Studio A listening to the playback of ‘Wichita Lineman’ the first time it came into the atmosphere. It must have been a perfect moment in time.
Country music has taken so many forms, and I’ve always contended that it does not matter if the casual listener falls in love with country music through Florida Georgia Line, Taylor Swift, Old Crow Medicine Show or whomever – just get in and start digging!
I’m really taken by the fact that my photographs live on somebody’s wall.
I don’t know how it got around that I play a lot of instruments. I really don’t. I play the guitar and the mandolin.
I can’t remember when I didn’t have an instrument around.
One of the most quotable guys ever in country music was Grandpa Jones.
Hillbilly Rock’ was the song that opened the door and gave me a reason to get a bus and a band and cowboy clothes to go out there and figure it out in front of everybody. And the hits started coming.
There was a junk store in Nashville on 8th Avenue, where I bought Patsy Cline’s train case for $75.
Being sober and clear-eyed changes everything.
The first picture of me that I know of was me in the crib wearing a pair of cowboy boots.
Some things you can never get back.
I never claimed to be a great photographer.
Well, being from Mississippi, the church house is kind of the common denominator. It was for me growing up. Like so many public performers, that was the first place I was ever invited to sing.
Addiction is a crazy disease. It’s a progressive disease when it’s not dealt with; it don’t care who it takes, and it takes it all. You wind up losing your house, your home, your reputation.
If you look back into the Superlatives’ body of work, we’ve always included instrumentals.
