Roy Acuff Quotes

#1. My health is good; it's my age that's bad.

Roy Acuff

#2. The only music we ever listened to out in the piney woods was Roy Acuff and the Grand Ole Opry. That was the only night of the week I was allowed to lay in the middle of the bed with Mama and Daddy, just long enough to hear Roy Acuff sing; then I had to go back to bed.

George Jones

#3. Don't be a blueprint. Be an original.

Roy Acuff

#4. Roy Acuff's from Maynardville, and that's where a lot of my family's from. So he's, I've been told, a distant cousin, as well.

Ashley Monroe

#5. Roy Acuff was the first country music star to buy a home in a fashionable section of Nashville. The real estate man said, 'Mr. Acuff, how do you plan to take care of this?' since the house was very expensive at the time. Roy said, 'Would cash be all right?'

Minnie Pearl

#6. When my friends and I would act out movies as kids, we'd play the guys' roles, since they had the most interesting things to do. Decades later, I can hardly believe my sons and daughter are seeing many of the same limited choices in current films.

Geena Davis

#7. Man ... feels lost without the direction-finder provide by progress.

Richard M. Weaver

#8. I'd like to be remembered as a man who went to Heaven and not another place.

Roy Acuff

#9. Eat like a bird, poop like an elephant.

Guy Kawasaki

#10. The greatest thing the Democrats have ever done for me was to defeat me for the governor of Tennessee.

Roy Acuff

#11. Roy Acuff was a big hero for me, and I was so sad when he passed. It's hard as you get older to lose your friends and family.

George Jones

#12. I'm just another Opry entertainer. I'm not the start of the Opry, and I'm not the ending. I'm not the Alpha, and I'm not the Omega. It's been a pleasure taking part in the Opry and country music these many years. I'm part of a big operation.

Roy Acuff

#13. I don't owe one man one cent. Anywhere.

Roy Acuff

#14. 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

#15. Television made a lot of difference in country music. It's progress. I believe in progress.

Roy Acuff

#16. Put your trust in the Lord and go ahead. Worry gets you no place.

Roy Acuff

#17. As a painter today you have to work without that essential platform. But if one does not deceive oneself and accepts this lack of certainty, other things may come into play.

Bridget Riley

#18. Any game you play, you got to lose sometime.

Roy Acuff

#19. Some women can drink some men under the table, but a man under the table can still be dangerous.

Jo Foxworth

#20. I've done a whole lot of things. I've had the pleasure of introducing two presidents, several senators and congressmen.

Roy Acuff

#21. A boy starts with bravado, and then he grows into real bravery." -- Nancy Freund, Rapeseed

Nancy Freund

#22. You've got to capture an audience. You don't go out there and just sing, or just play. If you can't capture an audience, you might as well not be out there.

Roy Acuff

#23. I don't go to the gym because I don't have time, but I do Pilates workout DVDs for 20 minutes or more every day at home.

Kate Winslet

#24. I loved Roy Acuff with all my heart, and I never dreamed I'd be able to meet him or see him onstage, or especially become good friends with him. For all this to happen, it's hard to explain what a dream this is when you love something as much as I love traditional country music.

George Jones