Merle Haggard Song Quotes

#1. If I hear another line dance song I think I'm going to puke.

Merle Haggard

#2. Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Merle Haggard, Hank Williams ... all of them are different styles, but those are the songs that make the times ... they're the songs that last through time.

Dolly Parton

#3. There is something wrong about the man who wants help. There is somewhere a deep defect, a want, in brief, a need, a crying need, somewhere about that man.

Herman Melville

#4. It's cool when your husband starts to sing some old Merle Haggard song and I can pop in with a harmony and it doesn't sound too bad.

Trisha Yearwood

#5. I think it was Tommy who told me, 'When your song is called 'XYZ' or whatever, every line has got to make sense against your title.' He showed me little methods of proving to yourself whether the line belongs, and ways of finding out whether you were able to get more out of a line if you tried.

Merle Haggard

#6. Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality.

Jean Cocteau

#7. I do take pity on some of the people that have to work with me.

Graham Elliot

#8. There's just enough drinking and cheating songs around without me adding to them. Unless you've got something better than "Misery and Gin" by Merle Haggard, you're beating a dead horse.

Aaron Watson

#9. Don't Forget The Story "The more you know yourself, the more patience you have for what you see in others." Erik Erikson

Sia Mohajer

#10. Once I was coming down a street in Beverly Hills and I saw a Cadillac about a block long, and out of the side window was a wonderfully slinky mink, and an arm, and at the end of the arm a hand in a white suede glove wrinkled around the wrist, and in the hand was a bagel with a bite out of it.

Dorothy Parker

#11. I'm not an actual author but an accidental one.

William P. Young

#12. I learned that true love turns the other cheek, does not take a wrong into account, loves all people regardless of their indifference or hostility.

Donald Miller

#13. It's very hard to make arguments about the effects of cloning on family relations if family relations are in tatters.

Leon Kass

#14. Our laws are a reflection of our culture. Our culture does not condone the torture of innocent and defenseless creatures. And we as a society believe all God's creatures should be treated humanely.

Joe Moore

#15. Desires are our way and Peace is God's Way

Rajesh Walecha

#16. McKinsey partners tend to be designers of ditches, not diggers of ditches. When it comes to executing their lofty theories, well, consultants lean toward leaving those messy realities to the companies themselves.

Bethany McLean

#17. Where there is dirt there is system. Dirt is the byproduct of a systematic ordering and classification of matter.

Mary Douglas

#18. Read about some squirrelly guy who claims that he just don't believe in fighting, and I wonder how long the rest of us can count on being free.

Merle Haggard

#19. What am I always so tense about? Why this desperate struggle just to survive?

Haruki Murakami

#20. They just want to continue playing their little game of power. And I feel that us people have the responsibility and also the obligation to demand to our leaders to give us the pacifist solutions. To give us a world in peace.

Shakira

#21. It sounds like something from a Woody Guthrie song, but it's true; I was raised in a freight car.

Merle Haggard

#22. There's just a few people that call themselves stars can actually sit down with a guitar and sing you a song.

Merle Haggard