The way I feel is that if you don't like folk music, stay away from my shows.
You got to have smelt a lot of mule manure before you can sing like a hillbilly.
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.
If you think I'm a drunk, you shoulda seen my old man.
My mother played the organ in church at Georgiana, and I sat on the seat beside her.
Man, it's hell to have a wife who thinks she can sing, and she can't.
It makes me mad to hear these popular orchestras make a jammed-up comedy of a song like 'Wreck on the Highway.' It ain't a funny song.
I have noticed that these pop bands will play our hillbilly songs when they cain't eat any other way!
You booked him, and you didn't worry about crowds. For drawing power in the South, it was Roy Acuff, then God.
Folk songs express the dreams and prayers and hopes of the working people.
I think I'm good enough to play and sing.
To sing like a hillbilly, you had to have lived like a hillbilly. You had to have smelt a lot of mule manure.
There ain't nobody I'd rather have alongside me in a fight than my mama with a broken bottle in her hand.
I have been living in Montgomery so long that I call it home.
If you're gonna sing, sing 'em something they can understand.
