Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

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

Related Quotes:

" 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. "

" Picking a guitar was a lot easier than picking cotton. "

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

" When I did 'Wichita Lineman,' it was as good as I could do it, so I keep doing it that way. It's such a haunting song. "

" I am just trying to do a song the best possible way I can. "

" I play guitar, and it's not a prop. "

" I've always been forgetful. "

" We moved to Los Angeles because our daughter wanted to go to Pepperdine. "

" I'm an avid golfer. "

" Elvis was a great singer. He really was. "

" I guess I'm like Roger Miller who used to say that he didn't have as many jokes as he thought he did. "

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

" I still love making music. And I still love performing for my fans. I'd like to thank them for sticking with me through thick and thin. "

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

" If you've got a good melody and a good story married together, that's a good sign for hit-song material. "

" I got to play with the big guys, the Wrecking Crew. They just blew me away. I learned a lot of stuff from those guys. "

" I've laughed, and I've cried. Laughing has got it over crying. "

" Dean Martin. He was incredible. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I've been every way there is to be. "

" Hank Williams' music - it just doesn't go away, for some reason. "

" I was very candid in my book because I want people to know the truth... and that people can change for the better. "

" '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. "

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

" When we cut 'Strangers In The Night,' we did the whole song in two takes. "

" I saw my first indoor bathroom when I was 9. "

" I would have been content to just do studio work, making it on my own never really entered my mind. "

" 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. "

" We didn't have electricity when I was a kid. We had to watch TV by candlelight. No, that's a silly joke. "