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" If we grew it, we ate it. If Daddy shot it, Mamma cooked it. "

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" I can think of only two or three songs out of hundreds I've recorded that I performed as originally written. I like to become intimate with the material and change it to suit me. "

" God's law is God's law, period. Teach your children that. "

" You don't mess with politics and religion. Leave it alone. People get upset at that sometimes. "

" What I try to do is live with myself and please me. If I can't do that, I can't please anybody else or live with anybody else. "

" Do everything according to God, and be nice, and treat other people the way you would like to be treated. "

" I realize you are going to make mistakes through life. Just don't make any bad ones, you know. Like all of my records are perfect records, but I did make mistakes on them. "

" I learned it was crucial to play right on the edge of the beat... It makes you drive the song more. You're ahead of the beat, but you're not. "

" Success is not getting what you want, it's enjoying what you have. "

" Life is too short not to enjoy it. "

Life Is Too Short

" I needed a capo - a clamp to hold down the strings - so my daddy made me one out of a corn on the cob and a rubber band. "

" I'll tell you, my dad played and sang, and it didn't take me long to figure out that playing a guitar was a whole lot better than getting ahold of a hoe handle or chopping cotton, man. "

" Frankly, it is very hard to remember things from the 1970s. "

" We lived on the farm, and our mode of transportation was wagon and team. No electricity. I'm the seventh son of 12 kids - eight boys and four girls. Mom and Dad handled that very well. But I wanted to get out. "

" Honesty I can take. Lies I get upset about. "

" I'm really not a songwriter, so if I hear a song, I feel it and like it, I'll do it. But I'll make it the way I want to hear it. "

" I like to start the day early, it keeps me out of trouble. "

" 'True Grit' was fun to do, but I wasn't cut out to be an actor. I made John Wayne look so good, he won his only Oscar. "

" With the first money I got, I built my parents a house back home, gave them a string of credit cards, and said 'Go.' "

" TV is just an incredible media. "

" Our dad taught us not to be a loafer and a slough-off, that you don't blame somebody else for your misfortunes. "

" All I ever wanted to do was play the guitar; singing was a sideline. "

" I'm an avid golfer. "

" The more you play music, the better you'll get. "

" I would rather do live than any kind of lip-synching or something like that. I don't like to lip-synch. "

" I have been very blessed with some great songs. "

" Some people have said that I can 'hear' a hit song, meaning that I can tell the first time a song is played for me if it has potential. I have been able to hear some of the hits that way, but I can also 'feel' one. "

" I don't have Alzheimer's. I have part-timer's. "

" I worked my butt off. "

" I'm a take-me-as-l-am person, and all the rest is water under the bridge. You can't change yesterday any more than you can predict what's gonna happen tomorrow. "

" If I get a song - a good song - I just sing it the way I hear it in my head. If anybody else wanted to add whistles and bells and chains rattling, that's fine. Just not too much. I actually just do things as straight ahead as possible. "