Quotes about Authenticity

I think that the best part of music is when it comes from a real place and has an ability to kind of connect on a much larger scale. It no longer is a personal thing, it becomes everyone else's thing as well.

We heard stories about fakery and decoys at revivals. I never personally saw any trickery.

Everything I write is based on something I've personally experienced, or things that my friends have experienced that I just find horribly entertaining.

When you really are country, and you don't just wear it like a piece of clothing or something, you really can't get away from it. It just is who you are.

Some persons think that they have to look like a hedgehog to be pious.

I wouldn't wanna go out not looking like the Dolly people have come to know, because I've come to know her that way, too.

At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins.

A day is a more magnificent cloth than any muslin, the mechanism that makes it is infinitely cunninger, and you shall not conceal the sleezy, fraudulent, rotten hours you have slipped into the piece, nor fear that any honest thread, or straighter ste.

It is easy in the world to live after the worlds opinions; it is easy in solitude to live after your own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.

We must not tamper with the organic motion of the soul.

Do not say things. What you are stands over you the while and thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.