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

David Allan Coe

#3. 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

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

Marty Robbins

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

Marty Robbins

#6. That a man can take pleasure in marching in formation to the strains of a band is enough to make me despise him. He has only been given his big brain by mistake; a backbone was all he needed.

Albert Einstein

#7. The future holds a golden world. It will be for beauty; it will be for intelligent productiveness.

Diana Vreeland

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

Marty Robbins

#9. Everyone around me says, You're a genius! You're great! That's your voice! But I'm not sure if they're right.

Dave Chappelle

#10. You're mad, bonkers, completely off your head. But I'll tell you a secret. All the best people.

Lewis Carroll

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

Marty Robbins

#12. I just see a huge train wreck coming down. You and I have discussed this many times, and I don't see any results yet.

Max Baucus

#13. Red swine. Mother rapers. Eaters of the milk of thy fathers.

Ernest Hemingway,

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

Marty Robbins

#15. To find a new world, maybe you have to have lost one. Maybe you have to be lost. The dance of renewal, the dance that made world, was always danced here at the edge of things, on the brink, on the foggy coast.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#16. Talent is being able to please people.

Marty Robbins

#17. If you have to ask how much it costs, you can't afford it.

J. P. Morgan

#18. 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

#19. What was more exciting than that? I could love him like crazy and work very hard to understand and support him, but I couldn't be fresh eyes and a fresh smile after five years. I couldn't be new.

Paula McLain

#20. By the way, did you ever realize that if Moses would have turned right instead of left, we'd have had the oil, the Arabs would have had the sand?

Golda Meir

#21. Do you know what Irish Alzheimer's is? It's when you forget everything but your grudges.

Dana Gould

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

Marty Robbins

#23. 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

#24. The Sacred isn't housed in a building or worn around your neck or something in the sky. The Sacred is the here and now we reside in, all breathing the same air, all imbibing the same water and made of the same earth with 'the life force' flowing through all living things.

Jaune Quick-to-See Smith

#25. 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

#26. Look at the limes in this drink, how they float. That's good news. Next time I'm on a boat, and it capsizes, I will reach for a lime. I'm saved by the buoyancy of citrus.

Mitch Hedberg