Top 85 Quotes About Hank Williams
#2. My dad and I could chat for hours about solar systems, dog psychology, and the existence of God, all while listening to Hank Williams and eating Taco Bell.
David Crabb
#3. The last song I recorded with [Hank Williams, Sr.] was "I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive." I remember thinking, "Hoss, you're not just jivin'," because he was so weak that all he could do was sing a few lines and then just fall in the chair.
Chet Atkins
#4. I always wanted a guitar. I always wanted to be a cowboy singer because I also listened to Hank Williams, and he would always sing these neat romantic songs.
Dick Dale
#5. A significant event for me was learning Hank Williams, reconnecting with his music's simplicity, which inspired me to inhabit the same territory. It's different, because I grew up on Led Zeppelin, The Stooges and punk, so in that sense I'm mutating country and folk more than a few degrees.
Stone Gossard
#6. If Ford is to Chevrolet what Dodge is to Chrysler,
what Corn Flakes are to Post Toasties,
what the clear blue sky is to the deep blue sea,
what Hank Williams is to Neil Armstrong -
can you doubt we were made for each other?
Lyle Lovett
#7. I started writing songs after I heard Hank Williams.
Bob Dylan
#8. I got Jimmy Hall from Wet Willie and he also plays now with Hank Williams Jr.
Gregg Allman
#9. Do the thing you love to do. Hank Williams died at the ripe old age of twentynine. Stevie Ray Vaughan at thirty-five. Jesus at thirtythree. Don't think you're special and the Lord's gonna bless you with time.
Jill S. Alexander
#10. I don't think you'd call me a traditionalist. But you can say I have an old soul, because I grew up listening to Conway Twitty and Hank Williams.
Scotty McCreery
#11. The road has taken a lot of the great ones: Hank Williams, Buddy Holly, Otis Redding, Janis, Jimi Hendrix, Elvis.
Robbie Robertson
#12. I listen to the radio and I like all kinds of music, you know, but I like to hear from people who have been there. Hank Williams has been there.
Leonard Cohen
#13. Country music is full of affairs and cheating; that's where all those Hank Williams songs come from.
Robert Hilburn
#14. I put on the Hank Williams and the Patsy Cline and the Rosemary Clooney on vinyl - I'm not trying to be some cool indie-rock person, I just love the way it sounds - and throw on a T-shirt and jeans. In Texas, we practically come out of the womb in jeans.
Kelly Clarkson
#15. I wouldn't want to cover a Hank Williams song in a country-western way. It doesn't occur to me instinctually to re-create productions. I'm interested in re-creating songs. Putting different clothes on them.
M. Ward
#16. One night I was sitting listening to some Hank Williams songs - and they'll change your life in a hurry ...
Charles M. Schulz
#17. The Hank Williams Syndrome: Come to Nashville, write some good songs, cut some hit records, make money, take all the drugs you can and drink all you can, become a wild man and all of a sudden die.
Waylon Jennings
#18. I loved Western Swing and Hank Williams' music, and I now know that it's a 6th tuning that gives you all of those classic licks.
John Fogerty
#19. 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
#20. I didn't get to meet Hank Williams. I was in the Air Force on Okinawa when he passed away.
Mel Tillis
#22. You weren't supposed to hear Elvis Presley. You weren't supposed to hear Jerry Lee Lewis. You weren't supposed to hear Robert Johnson. You weren't supposed to hear Hank Williams. And they told the story of the secret America.
Bruce Springsteen
#23. She loved horses and Hank Williams and had a best friend named Babs.
Cheryl Strayed
#24. Wherever it left us,
we were barely learning to live with it
when here came Flannery O'Connor and Hank Williams
to tell us that no one has ever been loved
the way everybody wants to be loved,
and that's hard. That's hard.
last stanza of How Step by Step We Have Come to Understand
Miller Williams
#25. When I was very, very young, I decided that I was gonna catalogue my times because that's what other people who I admired did. That's what Bob Dylan did, that's what Frank Sinatra did, Hank Williams did, in very different ways.
Bruce Springsteen
#26. 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
#27. My manager was Buddy Glee, who put me together with Mike Curb, and was basically the idea to bring some soul to the label and bring something different to the label besides the Hank Williams situation.
Solomon Burke
#28. No mommy's kisses and no daddy's smile. Nobody wants me, I'm nobody's child.
Hank Williams Jr.
#29. I was a pretty good imitator of Roy Acuff, but then I found out they already had a Roy Acuff, so I started singin' like myself.
Hank Williams
#30. Balance is always tough with the kind of shows and my work ethic and all of that, but that definitely helps me do what I do in the big picture.
Hank Williams III
#31. The vocals are the very last thing I do. So, it's kinda the opposite: with country. it's singing and guitar first, but with rock, I worry about the riff and music, vocals last.
Hank Williams III
#33. Now if you shoot someone, sir, you can get off Scott free. It's the latest thing Mr. Lincoln, can you believe?
Hank Williams Jr.
#35. Good friends, good whiskey, and good lovin', I want to thank you Lord.
Hank Williams Jr.
#36. You got to have smelt a lot of mule manure before you can sing like a hillbilly.
Hank Williams
#37. Let me sum it up for ya: We got some people who work for a living, and we got some people who vote for a living.
Hank Williams Jr.
#38. It was only his fifth offense, and this time he's killed someone.
Hank Williams Jr.
#39. Today is a sad day in Country music. We have lost another piece of history. George Jones was not only a good singer, but was a good friend. He will be missed by many.
Hank Williams Jr.
#40. I've never gone to school for recording. I wish I understood it more. School's been hard, learning things has been hard, because of the A.D.H.D., or dyslexia, or whatever you want to call it, but I know how to come up with stuff to bring it together.
Hank Williams III
#41. I'd have all the cars made in the Carolinas, and I'd ban the ones made in China.
Hank Williams Jr.
#42. I got girls that can cook, I got girls that can clean, I got girls that'll do anything between.
Hank Williams Jr.
#43. I would have to go back to being a dog. I've called myself a dog for many years.
Hank Williams III
#44. The presidents against Congress, the Senate is against the House, people are against politicians, and I'm against cats in the house.
Hank Williams Jr.
#45. The greatest of men, they don't get too big to cry. They just loose faith in love and life.
Hank Williams Jr.
#46. We make our own whiskey and our own smoke, too. Ain't too many things these ole boys can't do.
Hank Williams Jr.
#47. We say grace and we say ma'am. If you ain't in to that, we don't give a damn.
Hank Williams Jr.
#48. The name alone usually attracts about 50 or so curiosity seekers to the show. We know if we're playing the Policeman's Ball or something to have the proper respect, but we like to get rowdy.
Hank Williams III
#49. Some high society lady said is your horse outside? No ma'am, he's between my legs, but your too fat to ride.
Hank Williams Jr.
#50. Maybe one day the old guys will die off and things will change, 'cuz it's officially getting scary over here in America.
Hank Williams III
#51. I always wanted to have my own farm. I've never been able to achieve that. It's kinda tough.
Hank Williams III
#52. Some were beggars, some were kings, and some were masters of the arts. But in their shame they're all the same, these men with broken hearts.
Hank Williams Jr.
#53. I'm for turning off the tube and turning down the light, cause I'm for nothing else but me and you tonight.
Hank Williams Jr.
#54. You're singing a song about making love to your drummer, well gay guitar pickers don't turn me on.
Hank Williams Jr.
#56. I've never left for New York. I've stood my ground here my whole career and hopefully will be able to until the day that I die.
Hank Williams III
#57. They let dangerous men out of prison now, yes sir, I'm afraid it's so. Cause they're over crowded and it was only his fifth offense.
Hank Williams Jr.
#59. And I flirted with the devil and he dealt me a card. He told me that you will never win. So I sold my soul to the devil. I never thought it could be this bad. And I got the devil takin' me away
Hank Williams III
#60. We gotta control inflation, quit spending our money on everything. But this years tax increase, why it's the biggest in history.
Hank Williams Jr.
#62. Not everybody is going to like what I do or get what I do. With as much positive, you always get the negative to deal with. I get that as well. Most of the time, I'm very honored to have a fan base that they react to my songs. My songs speak to a lot of them.
Hank Williams III
#63. My mom nor my father never pushed me into the music business. I always did it because I wanted to.
Hank Williams III
#64. Killed by a man with a switch blade knife, for 43 dollars my friend lost his life.
Hank Williams Jr.
#65. I'd love to spit some Beechnut in that dude's eye and shoot him with my ole forty-five.
Hank Williams Jr.
#66. I went and got a tire tool out of my truck, and straightened him out as cold as a block of ice. It was an attitude adjustment, and it'll work every time.
Hank Williams Jr.
#67. In baseball, there is something electrifying about the big leagues. I had read so much about (Stan) Musial, (Ted) Williams and (Jackie) Robinson. I had put those guys on a pedestal. They were something special. I really thought they put their pants on different, rather than one leg at a time.
Hank Aaron
#68. Hell, Justin and I even talking about recording a blues song sometime.
Hank Williams Jr.
#69. We've got a Muslim for a president who hates cowboys, hates cowgirls, hates fishing, hates farming, loves gays and we hate him!
Hank Williams Jr.
#70. A one-night stand that waited three years to tell me I had a son. I needed cash flow fast, It was time to get into the business.
Hank Williams III
#71. The rush of creating sounds and mixing sounds is always an interesting challenge, especially for someone like me, who doesn't know about sound.
Hank Williams III
#73. Old Hank would be proud, and Elvis would too, cause we like our country mixed with some big city blues.
Hank Williams Jr.
#74. After reading hundreds of e-mails, I have made MY decision. By pulling my opening Oct 3rd, You (ESPN) stepped on the Toes of The First Amendment
Freedom of Speech, so therefore Me, My Song, and All My Rowdy Friends are OUT OF HERE. It's been a great run.
Hank Williams Jr.
#76. Don't take life TOO serious you can't get out alive anyhow.
Hank Williams
#77. The day Elvis passed away would be our national holiday, if the South would have won, we'd had it made.
Hank Williams Jr.
#78. In a way, being raised on the farm and doing chores and stuff it's a natural thing for me to want to work outside. It's almost kind of like a rehabilitation for me with doing that.
Hank Williams III
#79. You can do anything that you wanna do, but uh-uh, don't step on my cowboy boots.
Hank Williams Jr.
#80. I have a love of gear and pedals, from old pedals to new ones with new sounds. If I get depressed, I start looking for a certain type of pedal, learn the history, who and what it was made for, that kinda thing.
Hank Williams III
#81. Somewhere between raising hell and amazing grace, Lord I know just how they feel.
Hank Williams Jr.
#82. He plead insanity like they do now all the time. Sir, what would you have done in 1859?
Hank Williams Jr.
#84. If they don't have the Grand Ole Opry, like they do in Tennessee, just send me to hell or New York City, it would be about the same to me.
Hank Williams Jr.
#85. Animals have always been therapeutic for me to work with; they help me get me grounded from being on the road.
Hank Williams III
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