Top 110 Quotes & Sayings by Marty Stuart
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Last updated on December 25, 2024.
To me, all music that is made under the umbrella of the United States of America is Americana music.
The first picture of me that I know of was me in the crib wearing a pair of cowboy boots.
When I was 12 years old I discovered Bill Monroe and my dad got me a mandolin.
After something has run its course, you either become a parody and keep doing it, or tear it down and know the truth about it, warts and all.
If you look back into the Superlatives' body of work, we've always included instrumentals.
I believe in the future of country music, but a future without roots is like a kite with no string.
My local radio station, WHOC, Philadelphia, Mississippi - '1490 on your radio dial, a thousand watts of pure pleasure' - it was a beautiful station. And I loved everything I heard. But it was country music that touched my heart.
I make no apology about being a hillbilly.
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.
The only two jobs I ever had were with Lester Flatt and Johnny Cash.
There was a junk store in Nashville on 8th Avenue, where I bought Patsy Cline's train case for $75.
I swear, there is Capitol Studios and then there's every other studio on the planet Earth. It is the ultimate, paramount of sound in the United States of America. It is a magical place.
Well, it's hard not to love Hank Williams!
One of the people I heard early on in his career was Eric Church. I liked him and his music.
I haven't been to bed since 1972.
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.
Some things you can never get back.
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.
Anybody that looks at my photography, it blows my mind because it's my last hobby.
Rock 'n' roll entertained my head but there was something about country music that touched my heart.
The Ryman and the Grand Ole Opry, if you're a Southern boy, is just a way of life.
There's something cool about playing 'Tempted' and then picking up the mandolin and playing 'Dark as a Dungeon' and standing on the classics. It's nice to just let soul rule.
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.
The four things a hillbilly singer needs are a Cadillac, a Nudie suit, the right hairdo, and a pair of pointy-toed boots.
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.
The history of country music is as important as any other art form.
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.
Pop Staples was one of my true mentors.
Coming from bluegrass background, I totally understand family harmonies.
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.
If I go into the Mississippi Delta at pitch black midnight and put on a Robert Johnson record, it's hard to sit in the car because it's pretty powerful.
The first Nudie suits I bought were two hundred bucks.
I don't have many regrets in my life. But I have one. I would have stayed sober all along.
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.
Shaft' is a great country song.
More than anybody in the music industry, the Staple Singers were like family to me.
People shouldn't be punished for their wisdom.
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.
When I started making some paychecks, I didn't invest in stocks and bonds - I invested in American culture.
I've been promoting the idea of a Jimmie Rodgers documentary for years.
When country music is doing its job, it reports on the good, bad and indifferent of our human condition.
My mother named me for Marty Robbins.
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.
Unconditional love goes a long way.
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.
Sun Studios was where so much of American music exploded from.
Crazy Arms' is one of those songs that can get crushed beneath its own weight. It's kind of like 'Orange Blossom Special' or 'Rocky Top' or 'Crazy.' But when you go back to the original interpretation, you hear it in a new way.
When we lost Glen Campbell, we lost an American original. We also lost a really good man.
I've always been a sucker for a truck driving song.
When I was 5 years old, I got my first record. It was 'Flatt & Scruggs' Greatest Hits.' The second was 'The Fabulous Johnny Cash.'
The black church in the South is the home of rock & roll.
From the first time I played with Lester Flatt, I sensed an extreme amount of history around me.
When times are good, we have tunes to dance to; when times are tough, we're supposed to talk about it. That's country music.
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.
Being sober and clear-eyed changes everything.
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.
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.
We need a new Hank Williams, a new Jimmy Webb. We need new writers, a new Tom Petty. We need people that write what they feel and what they see - things that are relevant.
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.
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