Jerry Reed Quotes

#1. I'm a product of my surroundings. I grew up on Hank Williams Jr., Johnny Cash, Jerry Reed, and also Run-D.M.C., the Beastie Boys, the Fat Boys, and Biz Markie.

Big Smo

#2. Being down in Orlando, Florida, where we filmed the movie, I learned how to bass fish. Jerry Reed, who plays the villain in the movie, taught me how to bass fish.

Henry Winkler

#3. Smokey and The Bandit was just a lark. All we did was run up and down those Georgia roads wrecking cars and having the time of our life.

Jerry Reed

#4. I used to get on a stove wood pile at 5-6 years old and I would have a piece of stove wood and kindling bark as a pick, and I was a star.

Jerry Reed

#5. The works of Mozart may be easy to read, but they are very difficult to interpret. The least speck of dust spoils them. They are clear, transparent, and joyful as a spring, and not only those muddy pools which seem deep only because the bottom cannot be seen.

Wanda Landowska

#6. Cowards drown in a pond. The extraordinary flourish in the middle of the ocean.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#7. Globalization really is a concrete, fundamental fact in everybody's lives, and you really see that come to life in soccer stadiums.

Franklin Foer

#8. Music is the most powerful thing on this earth, and it's hard to be angry when you are listening to music.

Jerry Reed

#9. You can have music and it will stand alone by itself, but you can't have a movie without it.

Jerry Reed

#10. You want to finish something when it's good. You don't want to be the last one at the party!

Emilie De Ravin

#11. I put on your sequined ball gown and I checked the mirror there. Why, I looked like Cindy Crawford, but with much more body hair.

Jerry Reed

#12. After you've been wounded a few times, it's hard to let somebody get that deep again.

Lykke Li

#13. I have spent over 60 years bent over a guitar and to know that I wrote 70 compositions that masters have recorded, that makes me feel so good and full, and proud and thankful to the good Lord.

Jerry Reed

#14. Well I thought my pickin' would set them on fire, but nobody wanted to hire a guitar man.

Jerry Reed

#15. I have total respect for the self-contained rock artist. Whether you're dealing with Jerry Garcia or Lou Reed or Patti Smith or a Whitney or an Aretha, they know what they want with their career.

Clive Davis

#16. I got my first guitar at age of 7 and never laid it down. Momma taught me G, C, and D. I was off to the races son!

Jerry Reed

#17. When I was a kid of six or seven, I used to get up on the stove woodpile for a stage and I'd put on the wildest show.

Jerry Reed

#18. She's wearing a ring that I bought on sale, and that makes her the property of this U.S. Male.

Jerry Reed

#19. Activism is my rent for living on the planet.

Alice Walker

#20. I used to watch people like Richard Burton and Mel Gibson and think, 'I could never do that.'

Jerry Reed

#21. I went around the corner to motion pictures.

Jerry Reed

#22. Spassky will not be psyched out by Fischer

Mike Goodall

#23. Jerusalem, 61 AD Mariamne dipped her reed pen into the shallow wooden bowl of charcoal and olive oil ink and began writing her last entry on the parchment page in front of her.

Jerry Harber

#24. Pray for intestinal fortitude, work hard, and keep the faith. Oh, and pray for good luck, you're gonna need it.

Jerry Reed

#25. I mean, it's pretty hard to fight and hate and be angry when you're making music, isn't it?

Jerry Reed

#26. When people ask me what my motivation is, I have a simple answer: money.

Jerry Reed

#27. She Got The Gold Mine, I Got the Shaft.

Jerry Reed

#28. There are times when you work with directors on set, and things are a bit rudderless, and those can be good directors.

Grant Heslov

#29. I've been told that N.Y. in the spring is pretty special.

Natalie Dormer

#30. There are only four or five real events that we have that draw that many people into town each year. We should have at least 12; and once we have 12, we can have 24.

Jerry Reed

#31. It is not a character fault or weakness or seeking attention. It is somebody who is ill.

Jerry Reed

#32. Ass in the chair, Soldier.

Jay Crownover

#33. You can't love him," he whispers. "I've waited so long. Why the boy? Why is it he that pounded a hole through the wall?

Kelsey Sutton

#34. When you're hot your hot, when you're not your not.

Jerry Reed

#35. I'm on his death list, too." "Then why are you still alive?" asked Peter. "Because, contrary to widespread belief, Achilles is not a genius and he makes mistakes.

Orson Scott Card

#36. When Amos Moses was a boy his daddy would use him for alligator bait, tie a rope around his neck and throw him in the swamp.

Jerry Reed

#37. But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.

Andre Gide

#38. I am very grateful to God everyday that my eyes flutter open and I can jump out of that bed!

Jerry Reed