118 Quotes by Marty Stuart

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    If you look back into the Superlatives' body of work, we've always included instrumentals.

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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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    The first Nudie suits I bought were two hundred bucks.

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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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    More than anybody in the music industry, the Staple Singers were like family to me.

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    Sun Studios was where so much of American music exploded from.

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    To me, all music that is made under the umbrella of the United States of America is Americana music.

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    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.

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    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.

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