Top 100 Merle Quotes
#1. Each of us is a seed, a silent promise, and it is always Spring.
Merle Shain
#2. Compassion is the thing that leads you gently back to yourself.
Merle Shain
#3. If there ever was a poet for the working class Billy Joe Shaver and Merle Haggard would be my nomination.
David Allan Coe
#4. Every day we bear witness to each woman's knowledge of holding the profound power to decide whether or not to allow the life within her to come to term. The sharing of those moments makes abortion work sacred.
Merle Hoffman
#5. I like to stretch myself and push the envelope, so anything that's new or different or not of my daily routine, I am so for.
Merle Dandridge
#6. I enjoy the videos with the sound off, where you can look at the belly buttons and everything. Really some pretty girls, but I don't know about the music.
Merle Haggard
#7. I had some surgery on my feet, which has helped my back some.
Merle Haggard
#8. I have known the fruits of strikes. The bitter and the sweet. Hunger and music.
Merle Travis
#9. The Board would like to come back and see you tomorrow, Ariana,' she mimicked. 'Any more questions?'
'Yes,' she answered in the Warden's Irish accent, 'I'd just like to know why I'm such an arsehole.
Claire Merle
#10. It was like a curse. He was her antidote. She was his poison.
Claire Merle
#11. I think my brand of country music is that's been influenced by not just the rough-stock rodeo side or Ted Nugent's "let's get crazy style", but also the stand-up and sing style's like George Strait and Merle Haggard, and also the wild side of Chris Ledoux
Cody Johnson
#12. But who would rush at a benighted man, and give him two black eyes for being blind?
Merle Shain
#13. If I hear another line dance song I think I'm going to puke.
Merle Haggard
#14. When you get to readin' about where the music and John Steinbeck and all those people like that come from, the further you go the more interesting it becomes.
Merle Haggard
#15. 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
#16. There are no perfect men of course, but some are more perfect than others, and we can use all of those we can get.
Merle Shain
#17. Everybody likes Johnny Cash. I think the sad part of it is his health is givin' him problems.
Merle Haggard
#18. It takes a lot of mulch, love does, to create a froth.
Merle Shain
#19. Back when the country was strong, back before Elvis and before the Vietnam war came along.
Merle Haggard
#20. We tend to think of the rational as a higher order, but it is the emotional that makes our lives. One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment. MERLE SHAIN
Julia Cameron
#21. Love is short, forgetting is long, and understanding longer still.
Merle Shain
#22. It takes great generosity to accept generosity.
Merle Shain
#23. I'll tell you this, though. It's not true, that saying about sticks and stones; it's words that break your bones.
Merle Miller
#24. Willie Nelson's the one who told me the reason it costs so much to get divorced is because it's worth it.
Merle Haggard
#25. I wish coke was still cola and a joint was a bad place to be.
Merle Haggard
#26. Hey, hey, the working man, the working man like me. I ain't never been on welfare, that's one place I won't be.
Merle Haggard
#27. There's one thing I never did do, and that was stink.
Merle Haggard
#29. Guitar playing is very important to me. It's like golf to some other people; it's important to me that I play good.
Merle Haggard
#30. And I think it's safe to say that the single very impressive figure to me was Merle Haggard.
Warren Zevon
#31. Cynicism is a form of cowardice, a failure of courage to hope.
Merle Shain
#32. In 1960, when I came out of prison as an ex-convict, I had more freedom under parolee supervision than there's available ... in America right now.
Merle Haggard
#33. Staring at the world through the bottom of a glass, all I see is a man who's fading fast.
Merle Haggard
#34. We decided to do some of Merle's things with modern instrumentation. We used a flute, a bass clarinet, a trumpet, a clarinet, drums, a guitar, vibes and a piano.
Tennessee Ernie Ford
#35. You load 16 tons, and what do you get? Another day older and deeper in debt. St. Peter don't you call me 'cause I can't go. I owe my soul to the company store.
Merle Travis
#36. 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
#37. If there are no endings, there are no beginnings and you see no new lands, so for everything that's lost, there is usually something gained.
Merle Shain
#38. Madame Merle had once said that, in her belief, when a friendship ceased to grow, it immediately began to decline - there was no point of equilibrium between liking a person more and liking him less.
Henry James
#39. They shaved a little piece of bone off my small toe. You see, you balance yourself a certain way and this toe had grown under the other ones. So he cut it loose, where I could balance myself and it makes me walk straight.
Merle Haggard
#40. 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
#41. Loving someone means helping them to be more themselves, which can be different from being what you'd like them to be, although often they turn out the same
Merle Shain
#42. And then, of course, there's a couple that claim to be, but I haven't done any DNA tests or anything.
Merle Haggard
#43. At my age, I don't buy but a half a loaf of bread, you know?
Merle Haggard
#44. 'Cause I was already a smoker, it was easy to get addicted. The one thing that they don't teach you about marijuana is how addictive it is.
Merle Haggard
#45. Merle Weaver stroked the little girl's hair and thought of the two corpses in the rear of the truck.
Michael McDowell
#46. How can anyone prove they're not insane to people that are?
Claire Merle
#47. Some men are more perfect than others.
Merle Shain
#48. To be part of what you're singing about is somewhat painful. You've got to climb inside it all.
Merle Haggard
#49. Faith is the only way we're going to make it. None of us are smart enough to do it on our own.
Merle Haggard
#50. Momma tried to raise me better, but her pleading I denied, and that leaves only me to blame, cause Momma tried.
Merle Haggard
#52. The saddest songs are written when a person is happy.
Merle Travis
#54. We need to have music that contributes to the well-being of the spirit. Music that cradles people's lives and makes things a little easier. That's what I try to do, and what I want to do. You don't want to close the door on hope.
Merle Haggard
#55. One can't run in a park without a dog or make angels in the snow without a child and there are things one can't do without a lover, so the loss of the lover is like an amputation and the patient goes into shock.
Merle Shain
#56. The answer doesn't lie in learning how to protect ourselves from life-it lies in learning how to become strong enough to let a bit more of it in.
Merle Shain
#57. Who ask
don't get
who don't ask
don't want
who don't want
don't get
who don't get
don't care
Merle Hodge
#58. I went to Brooklyn College and met this beautiful Jewish girl named Merle, with dark hair, exotic looking and brilliant. So we got married and had three children.
Dominic Chianese
#59. Well, I'm kinda like George Carlin. I think that there ought to be a time where everybody should have all the drugs they want and there'd be nobody in charge, sort of like ... now!
Merle Haggard
#60. The older I get, the clearer it becomes to me that no one is cheated in this world, unless it's by himself.
Merle Shain
#61. 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
#62. And there's some Latino music I like, and some reggae music.
Merle Haggard
#63. Our strength is in our dreams, and those who do not dare to dream damn themselves.
Merle Shain
#64. A pervasive sense of shame is the ongoing premise that one is fundamentally bad, inadequate, defective, unworthy, or not fully valid as a human being.
Merle Fossum
#65. My music comes from country music. Merle Haggard is God, and I do believe that. I'm not too tuned in to country music. I don't know who Brooks and Dunn are. I like Shania Twain, though!
Loudon Wainwright III
#66. Marriage is supposed to do everything, like Duz, which is more than half its problem. It is said to save us, define us, give us purpose, keep us from loneliness, and incidentally balance our diet and wash our socks, and when it doesn't, we get divorced.
Merle Shain
#67. Let us reject this decree. In matters of conscience the majority has no power.
Merle d'Aubigne, History of the Reformation, b. 13, ch. 5.
Ellen G. White
#68. Feelings take you into uncharted territory from time to time it's true, but you almost always benefit from the journey one way or the other. We tend to think of the rational as a higher order, but it is the emotional that marks our lives.
Merle Shain
#69. The act of choosing whether or not to have a child is often an act of love, and always an act of survival.
Merle Hoffman
#70. I really like Alan Jackson, in Country Music. I think he's really very, very talented along with George Jones, and Merle Haggard, the same old favorites.
Tanya Tucker
#71. In the 80s, in the cover band I was in, we'd slip in original material. If you didn't say anything about it, people just didn't care. Sometimes they'd ask where that came from and you'd tell them, but you still had to play a bunch of Willie, Waylon, and Merle.
Andy Wilkinson
#72. The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.
Merle Shain
#73. There were two choices in life. Survive or succumb. And most people weren't even conscious of the path they chose. Because they chose for all the wrong reasons. Love, principles, dreams, desire. The world hadn't changed. It had always been survival of the fittest.
Claire Merle
#74. Most women would rather have someone whisper their name at optimum moments than rocket with contractions to the moon.
Merle Shain
#75. Miguel: Merle? What kind of hick name is that? I wouldn't name my dog Merle.
The Walking Dead
#76. Diana Krall knocks me out. I like jazz and I like her simple approach.
Merle Haggard
#77. There's two kind of cherries, and two kind of fairies, and two kind of mothers I'm told.
Merle Haggard
#78. My 10 year old son likes it. He's trying to play guitar and everything. He likes that kind of music.
Merle Haggard
#79. 95% of the album is my writing, by choice, because it seems to be what the distributors want.
Merle Haggard
#80. I worked really hard in college, and I came out a completely different person and performer than when I went in. I did the work, and I found a craft.
Merle Dandridge
#81. It's easier to force feed people than it is to give 'em what they want. It makes more money.
Merle Haggard
#82. A great man may be the personification and type of the epoch for which God destines him, but he is never its creator.
Jean-Henri Merle D'Aubigne
#83. We marry to grow up, to escape our parents and to inherit our share of the world, not knowing who we are and who we will become, so it is left to marriage to make it clear which ones of us are growing in the same directions and which are ships meant to have passed in the night.
Merle Shain
#84. I haven't had any problems with my back since I got the foot surgery.
Merle Haggard
#85. And then I have two children by Theresa, one boy 10 and one girl 13.
Merle Haggard
#86. Sometimes if you get 'em too drunk they don't pay no attention to what you're doin' anyways, so you might as well just do old songs. But if you get one that's paying attention, sometimes we'll do some new material.
Merle Haggard
#87. The Bowery was a place that would let us do original songs - not just covers - but we would have to work for tips, so we learned how to work an audience. In order to keep our jobs, we had to keep people happy, so that meant playing the latest Lynyrd Skynyrd and ZZ Top or Merle Haggard.
Randy Owen
#88. Memo to Merle Haggard: Miracles really do happen. I
Rachel Cohn
#89. Evolution is a laughing matter for anybody that's got a rational mind.
Merle Haggard
#90. By the time you get close to the answers, it's nearly all over.
Merle Haggard
#91. Heaven knows that alcohol is the worst thing in the world, but it's debatable whether cocaine is worse than caffeine or whether it's the same thing and they just changed the name.
Merle Haggard
#92. Stop rolling down hill like a snow ball headed for hell.
Merle Haggard
#94. Friends are like windows through which you see out into the world and back into yourself. If you don't have friends you see much less than you otherwise might.
Merle Shain
#95. You can tell a lot about what a man lacks by watching what he is cynical about, and many of us are cynical about love.
Merle Shain
#96. You mean how do I know you are who you say you are?" Merle shrugged. "How do you know anybody is who they say they are?" She shook her head. "We lie to ourselves about who we see, we lie to ourselves about who we are. Then we buy our own lies and try to spend them as our lives.
James Grady
#97. In the Community everything was black and white. Here, romantic relationships took on shades of grey; they were full of uncertainty, maybes, broken promises.
Claire Merle
#98. I'll tell you what the public likes more than anything, it's the most rare commodity in the world - honesty.
Merle Haggard
#99. HAG Records, is a company that I've owned. I've had a couple of gospel releases on it. We developed a pretty good distribution setup there and we do have something to use in case they don't want to sign us.
Merle Haggard
#100. I was 48-years old before anybody talked me into it for medicinal purposes, instead of some of these drugs that they give you that will lead you to heart surgery and things of that nature.
Merle Haggard
