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.
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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.
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Unconditional love goes a long way.
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Country music as a genre, as an art form, is just as valid out there in the pantheon of the arts as classical, jazz, ballet, whatever.
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When I started making some paychecks, I didn't invest in stocks and bonds - I invested in American culture.
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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.
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Every time I hear a Garth Brooks record I tend to want to hear James Taylor.
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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.
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Walking into the Ryman with Lester Flatt was the equivalent of walking into the Vatican with the pope.