Billy Joe Shaver Quotes

#1. If there ever was a poet for the working class Billy Joe Shaver and Merle Haggard would be my nomination.

David Allan Coe

#2. Idiom is larger than geography it is the hot breath of a people singing, slashing, explorative. Imagery becomes the magic denominator, the language of a passage, saying the ancient unchanging particulars.

Mari Evans

#3. I'm Just an Old Chunk of Coal (But I'm Gonna Be a Diamond Someday).

Billy Joe Shaver

#4. Woody Pines is the best band I ever heard in my life I swear. I'm their biggest fan now!

Billy Joe Shaver

#5. The coolest guys aren't afraid to be feminists.

Jandy Nelson

#6. Never take the first brick out of the wall unless you know it is meant to fall

Bathsheba Dailey

#7. It requires as much caution to tell the truth as to conceal it.

Baltasar Gracian

#8. The Devil made me do it the first time -
the second time I done it on my own

Billy Joe Shaver

#9. I'm playing checkers while they're playing chess
They make the big moves that make me a little less
Even when I win and beat the pants off of the best
I'm still playing checkers while they're playing chess

Billy Joe Shaver

#10. I was so moved by music that I wanted to create it as well, but once you decide that's what you want to do with your life, to be successful, you have to be business-minded, too.

Lizzo

#11. You been to school, you say you are a lawyer, you walked out of a magazine. I've been a drifter and a low-life loser, you can learn a lot from me.

Billy Joe Shaver

#12. When I'm good, I'm very good, but when I'm bad, I'm better.

Mae West

#13. The very act of sacrifice magnifies the one who sacrifices himself to the point where his sacrifice is much more costly to humanity than would have been the loss of those for whom he is sacrificing himself. But in his abnegation lies the secret of his grandeur.

Andre Gide

#14. We must be vigilant, even of each other, but mostly of ourselves. What my time in the cave taught me is that the ultimate life-and-death struggle is with ourselves. Foreign invaders might kill my body, but only I could kill my spirit.

Viet Thanh Nguyen

#15. One's true worth as a human being is not a matter of outward appearance or title, but derives rather from the breadth of one's spirit. Everything comes down to faith and conviction. It is what is in one's heart, and the substance of one's actions that count.

Daisaku Ikeda

#16. Songwriting is the cheapest psychiatrist I know.

Billy Joe Shaver