Top 53 Hillbilly Quotes
#1. were her kids. But the drugs and the late-night fighting revealed troubles that too many hillbilly transplants knew too well. Confronted with such a realization of her own family's struggle, Mamaw
J.D. Vance
#2. Bob," I say, "a man who is no longer interested in the genetics of inbred hillbilly water unicorns is a man who is no longer interested in life. I am afraid for your priorities, son."
T. Kingfisher
#3. My guitars, Cadillacs, and hillbilly music Is the only thing that keeps me hanging on.
Dwight Yoakam
#4. In 1965, when great young white artists in the English-speaking world were successfully re-channeling hillbilly and black music - you know Bob Dylan, Ray Davies, Pete Townsend, Keith Richards - they didn't get any money at first. They were all broke.
Iggy Pop
#5. He was singing a hillbilly song that sounded half like a love song and half like a hymn.
Flannery O'Connor
#6. I get along with all the women singers, but especially Dolly Parton. We talk the same hillbilly language.
Loretta Lynn
#7. It's the hillbilly rock, beat it with a drum. Playin' them guitars like shootin from a gun. Keepin' up the rhythm, steady as a clock. Doin' a little thing called the hillbilly rock.
Marty Stuart
#8. The jukebox played some hillbilly tune; steel guitar and emotion-choked moaning ...
Philip K. Dick
#9. I'm a bit of a loner, you know? I'm more quiet by nature. And coming from, you know, hillbilly country, I'm probably more reserved.
Brad Pitt
#10. I think of myself as a Hollywood hillbilly, but I'm sick of all these questions people ask about Alabama. 'Do you have an outhouse?' 'Is there a lot of inbreeding in your family?' They think all Southerners don't have computers and TV sets and that we're all still living in 1862.
Sunny Mabrey
#11. Worst was this boy Billy Hill, he was in school with me. When the nun called out his name she done it last name first, so it come out Hill, Billy. Can you imagine that? Hillbilly.
Henry Turner
#12. I'm a simple hillbilly. I don't like eating modern, industrialized, fast food. I grew up eating home-cooked food. So when I'm traveling abroad, like when I recently received a six-month writing fellowship to Iowa in the U.S., I like to cook my own food.
Andrea Hirata
#13. It's been years since any hillbilly has reported getting sodomized by an alien. Did they break up and not tell us?
Dana Gould
#14. Tennessee's a hillbilly dumping ground, and Georgia's a lousy state too.
Flannery O'Connor
#15. Usually going places makes me feel optimistic. And I'm a hillbilly, so heading to the countryside made sense a number of ways.
Jenny Holzer
#16. It's hillbilly urine; we had better get home before they come to eat us. Kevin said pointing towards home proving if there was ever any doubt that he had no acting ability at all. (The Children of Ankh series)
Kim Cormack
#18. For me, jazz, R&B, jump swing, Chicago blues, country blues, early hillbilly music, and honky tonk all stem from the same source
Duke Robillard
#19. There was a misconception about me when I started off because I had my hair greased up and I have some vague resemblance to the hillbilly gene pool that Elvis came from. People would say, 'You want to be Elvis' and I would say, 'No'.
Chris Isaak
#20. Please don't feel hurt, Satan, but my parents raised me to believe you didn't exist. My mom and dad said you and God were invented in the superstitious, backward pea brains of hillbilly preachers and Republican hypocrites.
Chuck Palahniuk
#21. We ate the same foods, watched the same sports, and practiced the same religion. That's why I felt so much kinship with those people at the courthouse: They were hillbilly transplants in one way or another, just like me.
J.D. Vance
#22. Look, you lost a tooth. Congratulations. Enjoy looking like a hillbilly. Here's a dollar,
Jim Gaffigan
#23. You know what I do on Sundays? I sing in a choir. I sing in a Greek Orthodox choir, and I'm the only hillbilly tenor in the Orthodox Church.
Chris Hillman
#24. Hillbilly culture at the time (and maybe now) blended a robust sense of honor, devotion to family, and bizarre sexism into a sometimes explosive mix.
J.D. Vance
#25. You got to have smelt a lot of mule manure before you can sing like a hillbilly.
Hank Williams
#26. Things began to come together, and I went from speaking like an evil baby to speaking like a hillbilly. "Is thems the thoughts of cows?" I'd ask the butcher, pointing to the calves' brains displayed in the front window.
David Sedaris
#27. Once in a while I get inspired and finish my act with the hillbilly hoedown.
Loretta Lynn
#28. I believe that Willy Nelson is the hillbilly Dalai Lama.
Kinky Friedman
#29. Cynthia didn't mind Confederate flags. She'd like to see a law that required every white trash hillbilly to have one tattooed on his or her forehead. You would see them coming that way.
Laura Lippman
#30. Most people don't listen to classical music at all, but to rock-and-roll or hillbilly songs or some album named Music To Listen To Music By ...
Randall Jarrell
#31. Nashville has always been competitive. My granddaddy called it the Hillbilly Babylon.
Hunter S. Jones
#32. We spend so much money on these dresses that are terrible. And what do we get out of it? Nothing - a piece of chicken and a roll in the hay with her hillbilly cousin - no thank you. My family's very close; I can do that at home.
Chelsea Handler
#33. Curiosity provoked me to lay a lot of our country stuff on our predominantly black audience and some of our black audience began whispering "who is that black hillbilly at the Cosmo?"
Chuck Berry
#34. Hopefully I'll be the first Mexican-American going into Hillbilly Heaven.
Freddy Fender
#36. Remember this, folks - I am a Hillbilly, and I don't always Bet the same way I talk. Good advice is one thing, but smart gambling is quite another.
Hunter S. Thompson
#37. The "hillbilly" girls were generating more enriched Tubealloy per run than the PhDs had...The District Engineer understood perfectly. Those girls...had been trained like soldiers. Do what you're told. Don't ask why.
Denise Kiernan
#38. I'll have your fucking job for this, you animal-raping, backwoods, hillbilly
Shyloh Morgan
#39. People look at you, and they've got just the perfect little box for you, the perfect category. Call you a redneck. Call you a hillbilly. Like those were insults.
Travis Tritt
#40. I feel like I'm the luckiest person alive. I'm always waiting for that phone call: 'Hello. We've just realized you're really a no-talent hillbilly. We've made a horrible mistake and we'd like you to leave now.'
Lance Burton
#41. It reminds me of the setting for a random, cheesy horror
flick. It makes me think that if we do break down, some
deformed hillbilly will probably drag us into a dilapidated
shack and eat us alive - just like what happened to those
kids in Wrong Turn .
Michelle A. Valentine
#42. In general, those from outside the southern culture built a style around exaggerations of southern music, and missed the lonesome hillbilly and blues feel that was its core. In the quest for abandon, they also failed to understand that southern music is lazy music - at any tempo.
Colin Escott
#43. Deep down, I'm just a West Virginia hillbilly.
Brad Paisley
#44. Doing a thing call the Hillbilly Rock, some say it came from Elvis down in Tennessee.
Marty Stuart
#45. I'm a native West Virginian and I've been called everything from a hillbilly to a stump jumper. I'm always proud of it; I'm very proud to be a West Virginian.
John Raese
#46. Last night I dreamed I went to hillbilly heaven and you know who greeted me at the gate? The ole cowboy-philosopher himself, Will Rogers.
Tex Ritter
#47. When we first started recording, it was before rock, so people thought we were hillbilly hicks. That was something we had to deal with; the girls didn't think we were cool, although they did a few years later. We had ducktails and wore peg-leg pants. We looked like rock n' rollers.
Phil Everly
#49. The old man had been tanned by the light of too many beer signs, and it just goes to show that you can't live on three packs of Chesterfields and a fifth of bourbon a day without starting to drift far too fuckin' wide in the turns.
Daniel Woodrell
#51. If Arkansas is, indeed, one big family, Eureka Springs remains its eccentric uncle.
Rex Nelson
#52. I had been born shoved to the margins of the world, sure, but I had volunteered for the pits.
Daniel Woodrell
#53. I had a dream that I lost my teeth and when I woke up they were all still in my mouth, thank God that I am not a Hill Billy after all.
Starley Ard
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