Where better than the church for people like me, George Jones and Johnny Cash to go to get ourselves in shape enough to sing a gospel song? Marty Stuart More Quotes by Marty Stuart More Quotes From Marty Stuart Today the most outlaw thing you can possibly do in Nashville, Tennessee, is play country music. Marty Stuart nashville play country There are two kinds of people, there's those who like Johnny Cash, and those that will. Marty Stuart cash two people Nothing will prepare you for singing the truth like about 35 years in the music business, financial troubles and a couple trips to jail, ... It will get you really humble and really truthful, and gets you ready to sing out about who and what saved you. Marty Stuart jail couple humble The truth of country music, the real stuff, will prevail ..... generation after generation. Marty Stuart generations real country There's the chart -- and there's the heart. And it's great when they both line up. But you better follow your heart, 'cause that's where it's at. Marty Stuart follow-your-heart lines heart From watching Lester (Flatt), I learned that it's important to be loyal to the people who made you and bought your music. He called me up to the front of the (tour) bus on the very first trip I went on with him. Lester pointed out two elderly people who were walking towards the but. He said, 'Those two people have been coming to see me since the mid 40's. That's what a country fan is all about.' Marty Stuart elderly two country I call this my church house trilogy. Souls' Chapel really was music from the Mississippi Delta, which to me is a church within itself. The Delta is the church of American Roots music. The Badlands is a cathedral without a top on it. And the Ryman has been called the Mother Church of Country Music, but to me it's the Mother Church of American Music. If you can think it up, it's been done there. In my mind, this is kind of a spiritual odyssey as much as anything else, and I had the settings of three churches to make it in. Marty Stuart spiritual mother country It's the hillbilly rock, beat it with a drum. Playin' them guitars like shootin from a gun. Keepin' up the rhythm, steady as a clock. Doin' a little thing called the hillbilly rock. Marty Stuart rocks guitar gun Doing a thing call the Hillbilly Rock, some say it came from Elvis down in Tennessee. Marty Stuart hillbilly rocks tennessee
