Roy Acuff Quotes

#1. My health is good; it's my age that's bad.

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#2. Don't be a blueprint. Be an original.

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#3. I'd like to be remembered as a man who went to Heaven and not another place.

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#4. The greatest thing the Democrats have ever done for me was to defeat me for the governor of Tennessee.

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#5. I'm just another Opry entertainer. I'm not the start of the Opry, and I'm not the ending. I'm not the Alpha, and I'm not the Omega. It's been a pleasure taking part in the Opry and country music these many years. I'm part of a big operation.

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#6. I don't owe one man one cent. Anywhere.

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#7. Television made a lot of difference in country music. It's progress. I believe in progress.

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#8. Put your trust in the Lord and go ahead. Worry gets you no place.

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#9. Any game you play, you got to lose sometime.

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#10. I've done a whole lot of things. I've had the pleasure of introducing two presidents, several senators and congressmen.

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#11. You've got to capture an audience. You don't go out there and just sing, or just play. If you can't capture an audience, you might as well not be out there.

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