Top 90 Quotes About Merle Haggard
#1. 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
#2. If there ever was a poet for the working class Billy Joe Shaver and Merle Haggard would be my nomination.
David Allan Coe
#3. I try to write like the writers I admire - I rip them off in form. It comes from George Strait and Merle Haggard records, and country music in general is really good at that, the twisted phrase ... So I'm always looking for that angle in my own work.
Brad Paisley
#4. God bless Merle Haggard. He did all the things that Johnny Cash was supposed to have done.
Lewis Grizzard
#5. I had always loved music. I grew up listening to classic country, Waylon Jennings, Merle Haggard. My dad loved Vern Gosdin and Keith Whitley. So I kept going to class and started getting totally into playing guitar and teaching myself these songs.
Jake Owen
#6. Around 14, I was turned on to Shania, Reba, Merle Haggard, Garth Brooks, Trisha Yearwood ... and I've followed it ever since.
Laura Bell Bundy
#7. I was mainly influenced by the Carter Family, Jimmie Rodgers, Loretta Lynn, Merle Haggard, and others like Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash.
Iris Dement
#8. I listen to Lil Wayne, and then I listen to Merle Haggard.
Tyler Farr
#9. I listen more to music when I'm on my computer. I'm into the latest YouTube thing. I'm a nanosecond kind of listener, but if I'm driving I would be listening to a Merle Haggard box set. It's a weird experience listening to 'Working Man Blues' by Merle Haggard and cruising around in a Porsche.
Jason McCoy
#10. I've had mentors who were kind of the troubadour singer-songwriters, like Merle Haggard, Loretta Lynn, Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan and Neil Young, and that's just what I've always liked - people who would talk real honestly about their lives and their circumstance.
Jewel
#11. 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
#12. Memo to Merle Haggard: Miracles really do happen. I
Rachel Cohn
#13. 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
#14. And I think it's safe to say that the single very impressive figure to me was Merle Haggard.
Warren Zevon
#15. 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
#16. 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
#17. 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
#18. 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
#19. The only thing that I miss lately in all music is somebody that will put out a melody that you can whistle. It doesn't seem like there's anything happening like that.
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#20. It's a long way from Graceland across Jordan to the Promised Land, but Jesus finally came to lead him home.
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#22. When I grew up there wasn't air-conditioning or anything of that nature, and this old car had a wall thickness of about ten inches. So we had a little warmer house in the winter and a little cooler in the summer.
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#23. It makes my wife mad, you know, she wants me to stay home all the time. But its what I've done all my life and I think when I quit doing it I'll probably go away pretty quick.
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#24. The Captain just gave us our orders, and Mom we must carry them through. I'll finish this letter first chance I get, but for now I'll just say I love you.
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#26. We don't smoke marijuana in Muskogee, we don't take trips on LSD. We don't burn our draft cards down on Main Street, we like living right and free.
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#27. We are under [government's] control, and if people don't realize that, they haven't looked around. And if they're not paranoid, they haven't thought about it.
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#28. My second wife Bonnie Owens and I worked together after we divorced for a period of maybe 20 years. And I managed to stay friends with another wife. And then there's one that I don't mess with. Everybody's got one of those.
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#29. Lay in the weeds and wait, and when you get your chance to say something, say something good.
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#30. We're bar room buddies and we're the best kind, nobody messes with that friend of mine. Chug-a-lug-a-lug-a-lugga, bar room buddy of mine.
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#31. 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.
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#32. 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.
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#33. I'll tell you what the public likes more than anything, it's the most rare commodity in the world - honesty.
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#34. Stop rolling down hill like a snow ball headed for hell.
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#35. I've got one young family by the first wife, with four children.
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#36. 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.
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#37. I'm proud to be an Oakie from Muskogee, a place where even squares can have a ball. We still wave Old Glory down at the courthouse and white lightning's still the biggest thrill of all.
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#38. There's just a few people that call themselves stars can actually sit down with a guitar and sing you a song.
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#39. It's been said that Bill Gates has come up with something that'll be released in December that's gonna put a lid on counterfeiting. If that's a fact then it's really interesting to own your own product - with all the potential methods of downloading.
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#40. It sounds like something from a Woody Guthrie song, but it's true; I was raised in a freight car.
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#41. I'm just writin' about my little ol' love affair.
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#42. Before the Beatles and yesterday, when a man could still work and still would.
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#43. There's been periods of broadcasts in the past where you could see all ages of entertainers, ranging from George Burns to Shirley Temple. That's not the condition now.
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#44. There's a rumor that there may be an attempt at organizing a possible script for a series on my life, which, when you look at my police record, you'd have to have more than one hour to tell the story.
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#45. The guitar's not all that expensive either, when you compare it to gettin' a toothpulled or something.
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#46. 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.
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#47. I probably wouldn't even be here now if it weren't for chiropractic
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#48. I can't really say why everyone loves Bob Wills' music, but I have yet to meet a person who didn't like it.
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#49. The turn I made was not the one I planned. And I watched my social standing slip away from me, while I watched the bottle slowly take command.
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#50. The one true friend I thought I'd found, tonight the bottle let me down.
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#51. I think I'm most proud of my family right now. I'm more into that then I've ever been. It also gives a new area to draw from in creativity with my songs.
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#52. I don't think there's ever been a friendly divorce.
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#53. Running down on a way of life our fighting men have fought and died to keep. If you don't love it, leave it.
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#54. Despite of all my Sunday learnin', toward the bad I kept turning.
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#55. 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.
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#56. And then, of course, there's a couple that claim to be, but I haven't done any DNA tests or anything.
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#57. 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.
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#58. 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.
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#59. Staring at the world through the bottom of a glass, all I see is a man who's fading fast.
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#60. 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.
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#61. Guitar playing is very important to me. It's like golf to some other people; it's important to me that I play good.
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#63. There's one thing I never did do, and that was stink.
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#64. At my age, I don't buy but a half a loaf of bread, you know?
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#65. I wish coke was still cola and a joint was a bad place to be.
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#66. Willie Nelson's the one who told me the reason it costs so much to get divorced is because it's worth it.
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#67. Back when the country was strong, back before Elvis and before the Vietnam war came along.
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#68. Everybody likes Johnny Cash. I think the sad part of it is his health is givin' him problems.
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#69. 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.
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#70. If I hear another line dance song I think I'm going to puke.
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#71. I had some surgery on my feet, which has helped my back some.
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#72. 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.
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#73. Diana Krall knocks me out. I like jazz and I like her simple approach.
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#74. Evolution is a laughing matter for anybody that's got a rational mind.
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#75. 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.
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#76. And then I have two children by Theresa, one boy 10 and one girl 13.
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#77. I haven't had any problems with my back since I got the foot surgery.
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#78. It's easier to force feed people than it is to give 'em what they want. It makes more money.
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#79. 95% of the album is my writing, by choice, because it seems to be what the distributors want.
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#80. My 10 year old son likes it. He's trying to play guitar and everything. He likes that kind of music.
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#81. There's two kind of cherries, and two kind of fairies, and two kind of mothers I'm told.
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#82. By the time you get close to the answers, it's nearly all over.
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#83. And there's some Latino music I like, and some reggae music.
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#84. 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!
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#85. 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.
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#87. Momma tried to raise me better, but her pleading I denied, and that leaves only me to blame, cause Momma tried.
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#88. Faith is the only way we're going to make it. None of us are smart enough to do it on our own.
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#89. To be part of what you're singing about is somewhat painful. You've got to climb inside it all.
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#90. '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.
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