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We’re used to people coming in from out of town to play cowboy who don’t know how to use guns, you don’t hand somebody a gun until you give them safety training… No one should ever die with a real gun on a make-believe movie set. – Randi McGinn	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
There’s a wonderful, wonderful entertainment community here, lots of music and shows. It’s all family-oriented. You have the gorgeous mountains and the big lakes. It’s a resort [ town ]. I did a show here, a full stage production music show, for six and a half years. But I fell in love with the area. So I moved here permanently. I really, really enjoy the outdoor life and the horses. I ’m wearing cowboy boots again and a hat. Or I ’m cruising around on a lake. Chris can tell you because he’s been a guest of mine here a few times, it’s a pretty special place. – Barry Williams -LRB- Greg -RRB-	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
When The Byrds started country-rock, we had no idea there would be such a thing. We were just trying to honor the music. We started listening to country radio. We went to Nudie's and got cowboy clothes. – Roger McGuinn	added by RobertHaigh 2 years ago
You said Father of Night was written for a play, and Lay Lady Lay was done for Midnight Cowboy, actually it was written for Barbra Streisand. – Tony Glover	Found on CNN 3 years ago
The cowboy hat is the history of the West. – Matthew Dolloff	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
But I do have the red cowboy hat I wore in E.T. It is in the girls' room somewhere and reminds me that I was 6 years old wearing that hat, i'm so glad I still have it. – Drew Barrymore	Found on CNN 3 years ago
Right as we do it, I just kiss her, kiss her. I didnt know what a movie kiss was. I wouldnt say I jammed my tongue down her throat but I would say I gave her a real French kiss, ill never forget it as long as I live.I go into kiss her and shes like, Woah! Woah! Woah! Woah! Oh cowboy. You dont use the tongue. – Adam Levine	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
They let me play cowboy, and they paid me [ for it ]. – Ben Cooper as Sam Kirby	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
We tend to think of Country Music as one thing, but it's always been many things, country Music omnivorously wants to grab cowboy music and western swing, and the Bakersfield sound and the Nashville sound, countrypolitan and all the various permutations of string bands up and down Appalachia, one of which branches off into a whole new genre called bluegrass. Country Music's never ending and Country Music's omnivorous and Country Music's not Country Music. Country Music's always been connected. There's no border. No passports required, that allows you to go into RB or allows you to go into jazz or allows you to go into folk or rock. It is, in fact, one of the parents of rock with RB. – Ken Burns	Found on CNN 4 years ago
A cowboy is not what you are, but who you are. – Chad Baldwin	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
We are proud of the true image of the real cowboy or cowgirl, often of very diverse race or ethnicity, riding the range on a well-groomed horse while sporting a cowboy hat, chaps, spurs and a rope. – Jim Magagna	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
The government's plans pervert the planning process and could make England's landscape a wild west for whatever cowboy wants to start drilling and digging up our countryside. – Rose Dickinson	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
I can go to my brothers, tell them what’s on my mind, there’s no judgmental things there, we can pray together, we can talk Scripture together, and I can just be myself…We’ve laughed, we’ve cried… but that’s what I personally need and I think that’s what a lot of guys need. Instead of just man up, cowboy up—open up. Open up and be yourself. – Jerry Witt	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
Virgil Earp was the constable back before Virgil Earp brothers got here — Wyatt and Morgan — and Virgil Earp actually killed a cowboy out in front of the Palace, doc Holiday( played) cards here before they went to Tombstone. – Dave Michelson	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
For me it's a combination of music and horses and landscapes. When I was young I dreamed to be a cowboy, and I think that's what Western is, it's a dream for mostly boys, to be a cowboy or an Indian, and have these beautiful clothes, we played that in the forest, and that's still in my heart. – Conductor Ludwig Wicki	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Right now, we’re doing fine, we’re just trying to figure out how a dead cowboy equals a peaceful resolution. – Jason Patrick	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
I've heard' peaceful resolution' for weeks now and now there’s a cowboy who is my friend who is dead – so prepare for the peaceful resolution. – Jason Patrick	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Because I was thinking mythologically -- should he be a cowboy, should he be John Wayne? And I said, 'Yeah, he should be John Wayne.' And when you're John Wayne, you don't shoot people (first) -- you let them have the first shot. It's a mythological reality that we hope our society pays attention to. – George Lucas	Found on CNN 8 years ago
Han Solo was going to marry Leia, and you look back and say, 'Should he be a cold-blooded killer?' because I was thinking mythologically -- should he be a cowboy, should he be John Wayne? And I said, 'Yeah, he should be John Wayne.' And when you're John Wayne, you don't shoot people (first) -- you let them have the first shot. It's a mythological reality that we hope our society pays attention to. – George Lucas	Found on CNN 8 years ago
I defy you to find another cowboy wearing a cardigan sweater. – William Bonney	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
People even overseas, when they see a cowboy hat, they have an affiliation of Texas with that cowboy hat. – Marsha Farney	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Henry Kissinger may have wished I had presented him as a combination of Charles DeGaulle and Disraeli, but I didn't. . .out of respect for DeGaulle and Disraeli. I described him as a cowboy because thats how he described himself. If I were a cowboy I would be offended. – Oriana Fallaci	added by anonymous 14 years ago

We’re used to people coming in from out of town to play cowboy who don’t know how to use guns, you don’t hand somebody a gun until you give them safety training… No one should ever die with a real gun on a make-believe movie set.

– Randi McGinn

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

There’s a wonderful, wonderful entertainment community here, lots of music and shows. It’s all family-oriented. You have the gorgeous mountains and the big lakes. It’s a resort [ town ]. I did a show here, a full stage production music show, for six and a half years. But I fell in love with the area. So I moved here permanently. I really, really enjoy the outdoor life and the horses. I ’m wearing cowboy boots again and a hat. Or I ’m cruising around on a lake. Chris can tell you because he’s been a guest of mine here a few times, it’s a pretty special place.

– Barry Williams -LRB- Greg -RRB-

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

When The Byrds started country-rock, we had no idea there would be such a thing. We were just trying to honor the music. We started listening to country radio. We went to Nudie's and got cowboy clothes.

– Roger McGuinn

added by RobertHaigh
2 years ago

You said Father of Night was written for a play, and Lay Lady Lay was done for Midnight Cowboy, actually it was written for Barbra Streisand.

– Tony Glover

Found on CNN
3 years ago

The cowboy hat is the history of the West.

– Matthew Dolloff

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

But I do have the red cowboy hat I wore in E.T. It is in the girls' room somewhere and reminds me that I was 6 years old wearing that hat, i'm so glad I still have it.

– Drew Barrymore

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Right as we do it, I just kiss her, kiss her. I didnt know what a movie kiss was. I wouldnt say I jammed my tongue down her throat but I would say I gave her a real French kiss, ill never forget it as long as I live.I go into kiss her and shes like, Woah! Woah! Woah! Woah! Oh cowboy. You dont use the tongue.

– Adam Levine

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

They let me play cowboy, and they paid me [ for it ].

– Ben Cooper as Sam Kirby

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

We tend to think of Country Music as one thing, but it's always been many things, country Music omnivorously wants to grab cowboy music and western swing, and the Bakersfield sound and the Nashville sound, countrypolitan and all the various permutations of string bands up and down Appalachia, one of which branches off into a whole new genre called bluegrass. Country Music's never ending and Country Music's omnivorous and Country Music's not Country Music. Country Music's always been connected. There's no border. No passports required, that allows you to go into RB or allows you to go into jazz or allows you to go into folk or rock. It is, in fact, one of the parents of rock with RB.

– Ken Burns

Found on CNN
4 years ago

A cowboy is not what you are, but who you are.

– Chad Baldwin

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

We are proud of the true image of the real cowboy or cowgirl, often of very diverse race or ethnicity, riding the range on a well-groomed horse while sporting a cowboy hat, chaps, spurs and a rope.

– Jim Magagna

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

The government's plans pervert the planning process and could make England's landscape a wild west for whatever cowboy wants to start drilling and digging up our countryside.

– Rose Dickinson

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

I can go to my brothers, tell them what’s on my mind, there’s no judgmental things there, we can pray together, we can talk Scripture together, and I can just be myself…We’ve laughed, we’ve cried… but that’s what I personally need and I think that’s what a lot of guys need. Instead of just man up, cowboy up—open up. Open up and be yourself.

– Jerry Witt

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

Virgil Earp was the constable back before Virgil Earp brothers got here — Wyatt and Morgan — and Virgil Earp actually killed a cowboy out in front of the Palace, doc Holiday( played) cards here before they went to Tombstone.

– Dave Michelson

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

For me it's a combination of music and horses and landscapes. When I was young I dreamed to be a cowboy, and I think that's what Western is, it's a dream for mostly boys, to be a cowboy or an Indian, and have these beautiful clothes, we played that in the forest, and that's still in my heart.

– Conductor Ludwig Wicki

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Right now, we’re doing fine, we’re just trying to figure out how a dead cowboy equals a peaceful resolution.

– Jason Patrick

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

I've heard' peaceful resolution' for weeks now and now there’s a cowboy who is my friend who is dead – so prepare for the peaceful resolution.

– Jason Patrick

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Because I was thinking mythologically -- should he be a cowboy, should he be John Wayne? And I said, 'Yeah, he should be John Wayne.' And when you're John Wayne, you don't shoot people (first) -- you let them have the first shot. It's a mythological reality that we hope our society pays attention to.

– George Lucas

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Han Solo was going to marry Leia, and you look back and say, 'Should he be a cold-blooded killer?' because I was thinking mythologically -- should he be a cowboy, should he be John Wayne? And I said, 'Yeah, he should be John Wayne.' And when you're John Wayne, you don't shoot people (first) -- you let them have the first shot. It's a mythological reality that we hope our society pays attention to.

– George Lucas

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I defy you to find another cowboy wearing a cardigan sweater.

– William Bonney

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

People even overseas, when they see a cowboy hat, they have an affiliation of Texas with that cowboy hat.

– Marsha Farney

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Henry Kissinger may have wished I had presented him as a combination of Charles DeGaulle and Disraeli, but I didn't. . .out of respect for DeGaulle and Disraeli. I described him as a cowboy because thats how he described himself. If I were a cowboy I would be offended.

– Oriana Fallaci

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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