When I was to come to Washington the first time as Music Director of the Boston Symphony, Mrs. Johnson phoned us to find out if they could give us a party and who we would like to meet.
I'm thrilled that country music fans like my stuff, but so do a lot of people outside of country music, people who just love music. My goal is more to reach music lovers than to appeal to a genre. I love country music, and I'm proud to represent it, but I don't obsess over it as a category.
I could have recorded music and hoarded it all because it's not good enough for me. Also, with dropping music, fans get what they want, and you get to learn from them and whatever you put out.
These people that watch our MTV shows, they're not music fans. They're people that are lazy on their couch and want to watch funny videos or whatever.
The nature of music fandom and music fans is that, very often, they fall in love with a band or a particular artist, and they really would like... I'm talking generally; that's not everyone. But a vast majority of the fan base would prefer the band to keep making the same record and the same style of music over and over again.
Obviously, I love country music, so I wanna be able to live in the country music genre and then play to country music fans.
I'm really excited to be chosen as a VEVO LIFT artist. It's a great opportunity to reach millions more music fans with my sound and let them see the real Rita.
A lot of my fans, and a lot of country music fans, they still wear boots.
Country music fans are extremely supportive. Once they're with you, they're with you for life.
I have really dope parents, and they happen to both really love, love music - they're huge music fans.
We music fans go to shows for transcendence; it's like being called to prayer.
My parents are music fans, even though neither of them play an instrument. I was exposed to their record collection, so I love everything from Joni Mitchell to Bruce Springsteen.
Well, I was a real late-comer to listen to music, actually, because my parents - first of all, my parents weren't big music fans. They didn't listen to music. We didn't really listen to stuff in the house.
So, when you divide the world into music lovers, music fans and then those people who are just very casual about their music, it's wallpaper to them, it's elevator music, it's just the thing that's playing in the background that helps them through their day.
We're all music fans and we just love being in a band, and that's why we do it.
Metal fans are just as compassionate and caring and tolerant as any other form of music fans are.
For a lot of people, music is about the show, the lights, and all that. With Filipino music fans, they genuinely listen to songs.
Most of my read on America is through looking through the front windshield of a bus and hanging out with country music fans backstage.
It was writing about music for NPR - connecting with music fans and experiencing a sense of community - that made me want to write songs again. I began to feel I was in my head too much about music, too analytical.
What's scummy about the music industry is that everybody loves you when you're dead.
