Best Marty Robbins Quotes

#1. My Mother set me on the right track, Marty Robbins made me want to write songs, and Jesus Christ did the rest.

Bernie Taupin

#2. I didn't choose a word or anything. I just wrote the song until it stopped.

Marty Robbins

#3. I have so much fun on stage that I should have to pay to get in.

Marty Robbins

#4. I cannot do my job unless I am fully open to whatever comes. You're almost naked emotionally.

Renee Lawless

#5. We had sold our death to somebody at the door for the sum of £70:18:6d and lent our fear to somebody at the door as well on interest of £3:10:0d per month, so we did not care about death and we did not fear again.

Amos Tutuola

#6. Out in the west Texas town of El Paso, I fell in love with a Mexican girl ...

Marty Robbins

#7. I look much more civilized than I actually am.

Georgina Chapman

#8. I'm in this business because I despise honest labor.

Marty Robbins

#9. Marty Robbins once sang you give me a mountain, I've been given a few mountains in my life.

David Allan Coe

#10. It's fun to come back to the town where I went to school and see all the new Wildcat players.

Natalie Gulbis

#11. The great songs just come out. If it comes quick, just leave it that way.

Marty Robbins

#12. If halfway love is all you want or all you care to give, why bother with love at all and only halfway live.

Marty Robbins

#13. Example is the best precept.

Aesop

#14. Talent is being able to please people.

Marty Robbins

#15. I'd like to explode a few myths about what we call classical music. It's not high art for the titillation of a chosen few.

Charles Hazlewood

#16. I only drank for three years of my life, but I drank enough in those three years to last me the rest of my life ... It's a religious thing.

Marty Robbins

#17. Every day is a good day to be alive, whether the sun's shining or not.

Marty Robbins

#18. Wave to the haters like nanananana.

Chris Brown

#19. I'm not a real good musician, but I can write [a song] pretty well. I experiment once in a while to see what I can do. I find out the best I can do is stay with ballads.

Marty Robbins

#20. You always have to prepare for the obstacles that are going to come. Consequently, when they do come, it doesn't affect you mentally near as much as when you're unprepared for them.

Lou Holtz

#21. Anything you want to know about Kingston's green versus orange war, everything you ever need to know about the rudeboy-cum-gunman is not in Bob Marley's lyrics or in Peter Tosh's but in Marty Robbins's "Big Iron." He's

Marlon James