Kelsea Ballerini quote: "I was raised on a farm in East Tennessee, and my first concert was Britney Spears. It's my job as a country music artist to be honest about that."

Growing up, I remember thinking country music was all honky-tonks and beer and trucks - Britney Spea...
KELSEA BALLERINI

I don't mind putting my heart out there for the audience, and for the country music fans... to b...
TYLER FARR

Country music was the music I was brought up on. It's the music that's closest to my heart a...
TEDDY THOMPSON

My first job was singing on the Cas Walker radio show in Knoxville, Tennessee. I was about 10 years ...
DOLLY PARTON

My dad's quite a conservative person, and he brought me up to be very questioning of the commerc...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS

When I was teenager, Britney Spears was it - that was the pop world that was happening, and I knew I...
VALERIE JUNE

I was born and raised Catholic, so it's in my blood. I don't go to church... I was born and ...
TOM ARAYA

Once I understood Bach's music, I wanted to be a concert pianist. Bach made me dedicate my life ...
NINA SIMONE

You can't hate Britney Spears because, you know what, no matter what Britney Spears been doing, ...
T-PAIN

If I was still at school, I'd be looking at Britney Spears and dying to be her.
SHEENA EASTON

I was born in Orange County - in Santa Ana. My dad is from California. I was raised on the East Coas...
MICHAEL B. JORDAN

Growing up in east Tennessee gave me my country roots, my twang, and a lot of my stories.
KELSEA BALLERINI

I was introduced to country music around a campfire on a farm.
GAVIN DEGRAW

People always accuse me of being motivational in a way, like it was a bad thing, but that's just...
LENNY KRAVITZ

[My daughter Lourdes and I] listen to Britney Spears songs together.
MADONNA

My daughter Lourdes and I listen to Britney Spears songs together.
MADONNA

To be honest, the biggest reason I write music and became a musician was to create the amount of joy...
HOZIER

I was essentially raised on blues music. My dad was a blues musician around Dublin when I was a baby...
HOZIER

In a recent Valentine's Day posting on her fan website, Britney Spears says that - oh, who cares...
AMY POEHLER

I like country music. I'm not going to lie. I'm from the South, and I grew up on it. My dad ...
KIM DICKENS

The first CD that I ever bought was 'Britney Spears.' It was at a 7-Eleven and I was like, &...
JOE JONAS

I'm kind of like Britney Spears having a headache. Everybody wants to know about it.
JOE WURZELBACHER

I've lived the American dream. I was born and raised on the farm, first in my family to graduate...
CATHY MCMORRIS RODGERS

I was raised to be some kind of artist.
ELLAR COLTRANE

I think I was raised on all types of music. Of course there was the American pop music. There was al...
JOSE MATEO

My first-ever concert was the Barney concert when I was, like, six. My mum took me because I was obs...
GIGI HADID

I love country music so much. I love all kinds of music. But when it comes down to it, I'm from ...
ASHLEY MONROE

Being honest is my job. That's what music is for me.
ERYKAH BADU

I remember being in Atlantic City once when I was 18 or 19, and a sea of people were screaming and p...
GENIE FRANCIS

There's no shame in owning a New Kids on the Block t-shirt. They were my first concert when I wa...
ZOE LISTER-JONES

'Music Hop' in 1963 was my first hosting job of a variety program.
ALEX TREBEK

When I was first starting out in the music industry, I was always coupled in the same sentence with ...
MANDY MOORE

I have a great body, I really do. But I want to be taken seriously as an artist, and wearing anythin...
JANELLE MONAE

I grew up in the era of Britney Spears, where artists had songs written for them, and you got up and...
BEBE REXHA

My first big gig was as a correspondent on Comedy Central's 'The Daily Show.' My job was...
BETH LITTLEFORD

I was born in Fayette County, over in Lexington, Kentucky, but I was raised most of my life in Paint...
CHRIS STAPLETON

It's not for me to determine what a country artist has in common with a hip-hop artist. You go f...
CLIVE DAVIS

The challenge is to keep it fresh. If you're talking about Britney Spears over and over, it'...
CHELSEA HANDLER

My first real showbiz job was on a Nickelodeon show called 'Hey, Dude.' That was my first re...
GRAHAM YOST

I was raised in a large family. The first reason for my travel was to get away from my family. I kne...
PAUL THEROUX

My family were Conservative Jews. My parents were both born in this country, but my father grew up o...
NORMAN LLOYD

I was doing quite well in Malaysia... Everyone was so excited about my music, and they started accep...
YUNA

I have always loved music. My mom used to sing with my sister and I when I was younger, and I was in...
RACHEL PLATTEN

Archer pressed a preset button on my car radio. An old Britney Spears song blared, and I sung along ...
ELISE ALLEN

When I sing along with Britney Spears I will sing in an American accent. But eventually I found my o...
ELLIE GOULDING

People don't understand what music really is. I've been a musician since I was 6 years old. ...
MITCHEL MUSSO

I was born and raised in Manhattan; I didn't realize that I, in all my androgyny, was a freak to...
IO TILLETT WRIGHT

You can't just get rid of it by tearing it up, ... which means I actually could still be legally mar...
RICHARD BACON

He was willing to pay her to hang around his house and paint Piper's fingernails? It sounded as easy...
ERIN MCCARTHY

Miss Britney Spears took a dude that was already with a girl that had babies. And sometimes when you...
LONI LOVE

I dropped the 'Bundy' with my country music because I wanted it to be two separate things: T...
LAURA BELL BUNDY

My dad was a copywriter on Madison Avenue at the same time as the TV show 'Mad Men' is set. ...
PETER HELLER

I was not so interested in night-after-night coverage of Michael Jackson's death or Britney Spea...
CAMPBELL BROWN

I sing 'I Have Confidence' from 'The Sound of Music' as Judy Garland, Celine Dion, B...
SARA CHASE

There's prejudice everywhere. I don't think the music industry is as bad as the movie indust...
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT

School was pretty good about letting me take up music and that's where I had my first musical id...
JAMES BLUNT

I would have to say I might do some stuff, but it's the film that's appealing. I was raised ...
DANNY ELFMAN

I love Britney (Spears). I want to do nothing but support her and praise her. I became obsessed with...
MADONNA

When I was on the 'Mickey Mouse Club,' there was Britney Spears, Justin Timberlake and Ryan ...
KERI RUSSELL

I was born and raised in North Little Rock, Arkansas. I was 15 when I got my first job serving food ...
JOEY LAUREN ADAMS

My desire to be an artist really came out of being broke and unemployed and incapable of holding a j...
GARY HUME

I was raised in a farm family where high-fat food was the norm. It was a real culture shock for me w...
JUDY LACOUR

I was in a movie called 'Vanishing on 7th Street,' and that was my first leading role in a m...
JACOB LATIMORE

My first concert makes me sound like a real old man. My very first concert was Jackie Wilson.
EDDIE MURPHY

When I was playing piano, it was like, 'I'm going to write a song using all the white keys.&...
JOHN TESH

My mother's sister was killed in a trolley car accident, so I was raised as one of eight with my...
ALAN KING

I want to travel around the country and make my living playing music. I also try to behave in a way ...
BUZZ OSBORNE

Fame was never something I was seeking in my artistic journey. It's to be used as a tool for an ...
PHILIPPE PETIT

My liberty is about living. It's about spreading more love. Even though I was always a peaceful,...
SNOOP DOGG

So, I was offered this job to come down there but first it was suggested that I take a trip around t...
BEN SHAHN

'What's My Line' 1971 was a magical experience as I was still in my teens, and it was my...
RANDY WEST

I think I first realized I wanted to be in country music and be an artist when I was 10. And I start...
TAYLOR SWIFT

My entire life has really revolved around music that was written about the time that I was born, 190...
ELLIOTT CARTER

Growing up, as much as country was a big influence in my life, the Rolling Stones and the Beatles an...
THOMAS RHETT

To be honest, I've only been to one concert, and it was Aerosmith. Aerosmith and Slash.
SHAWN MENDES

I remember my first time in the Champions League. I was 18, and it was Arsenal against Milan at The ...
ALEXANDRE PATO

I love rock music, I love country music - I love all music, let's be honest!
FEFE DOBSON

'McLeod's Daughters' was my first regular job out of drama school, and my first full-tim...
DUSTIN CLARE

When I was a kid, and God was talking to me about music, I was like, 'Okay, I'll sing mainst...
LAUREN DAIGLE

My mother's sister married a man from Barbados, and my cousins were raised in Barbados. So we tr...
MATISYAHU

I was making almost minimum wage on 'The Young and the Restless.' But it was my first job, s...
EVA LONGORIA

I was working on the farm to get in shape, about a mile away from my parents. You know, I did everyt...
GUY LAFLEUR

I've gone through many phases in music in my life. Before I was signed, I was making completely ...
CHARLIE PUTH

So the first job that I got - my father got it for me - he had his clerical collar on, was a gay bar...
TORI AMOS

I was a big fan of Aaliyah's. Growing up, my mom was a big fan of her music. When I grew to have...
ALEXANDRA SHIPP

I play guitar, the ukulele and the piano. I grew up on a mountain in Tennessee, and we had 'The ...
RACHEL BOSTON

My father was a veteran and my mother a schoolteacher. They taught me the value of a good job and an...
STEPHEN PAGLIUCA

In my music and my life, I'm honest with my feelings, and people appreciate that. That's jus...
LA INDIA

'Envy the Night' was my first stand alone, the first book I'd written in the third perso...
MICHAEL KORYTA

If it wasn't for Kenny Rogers, I don't think I would be in country music. He was that guy wh...
DARIUS RUCKER

I didn't think I'd ever have to feel conflicted about Britney Spears.
MCRAE REED

'Baby's Got Her Blue Jeans On' was my anthem as a child. It was about me. I was Baby.
CARRIE UNDERWOOD

I'm a first - I was the first person in my family born in the United States. My mom is from Croa...
OTTESSA MOSHFEGH

If I was to have a reality show, it wouldn't be a show based on my personal life. I'd want i...
KEHLANI

There's not a ton of roles out there for the insecure, loud Britney Spears type.
BETTY GILPIN

My adrenaline is definitely going, but it's mostly my real, laid-back persona carrying over on s...
KEVIN NEALON

It was tough ... on me to be honest with you. I can remember in December sitting in my house, and my...
ALEX RODRIGUEZ

The very first job I did, a Barbie commercial when I was eight or nine, that was like 'Oh my God...
BIANCA LAWSON

Those first few songs I wrote, I was taking notes at a fantastic rock concert going on in my head.
JIM MORRISON

My interest in the theater led me to my first writing experience as an adult. My husband David wrote...
GAIL CARSON LEVINE

I was raised on a farm in East Tennessee, and my first concert was Britney Spears. It's my job as a country music artist to be honest about that.

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I was raised on a farm in East Tennessee, and my first concert was Britney Spears. It's my job as a country music artist to be honest about that.

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