Merle Haggard Quotes - Page 2

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• 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

  People, Interesting

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• It's a long way from Graceland across Jordan to the Promised Land, but Jesus finally came to lead him home.

  Merle Haggard

  Jesus, Home, Land

  Song: From Graceland To The Promised Land

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• The thing that bothers me the most is the recklessness and greed of the local ranchers, who run too many cattle back here, choking with waste the creek that runs through my property. There's certain times of day that the cowboys like to send them turds down the river. Them f**kers piss me off. if you gotta mess up the ecology of the world in order to raise a bunch of cows, well eat somethin else. I'm not a fan of the cowboys.

  Merle Haggard

  Running, Cowboy, Order

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• There's two kind of cherries, and two kind of fairies, and two kind of mothers I'm told.

  Merle Haggard

  Mother, Reality, Two

  Song: My Own Kind of Hat, Album: Serving 190 Proof

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• It sounds like something from a Woody Guthrie song, but it's true; I was raised in a freight car.

  Merle Haggard

  Song, Car, Sound

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• 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

  America, Prison, 1960s

  Interview with Alex Halberstadt, www.salon.com. November 14, 2000.

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• Back when the country was strong, back before Elvis and before the Vietnam war came along.

  Merle Haggard

  Country, Strong, War

  Merle Haggard (2002). “Merle Haggard: Poet of the Common Man : the Lyrics”, p.55, Hal Leonard Corporation

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• 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

  Golf, Guitar, Play

  "A Q&A With Merle Haggard". Billboard Interview, www.billboard.com. March 24, 2005.

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• Before the Beatles and yesterday, when a man could still work and still would.

  Merle Haggard

  Men, Yesterday, Stills

  Song: Are The Good Times Really Over

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• The guitar's not all that expensive either, when you compare it to gettin' a toothpulled or something.

  Merle Haggard

  Guitar, Compare, Expensive

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• Despite of all my Sunday learnin', toward the bad I kept turning.

  Merle Haggard

  Sunday, Evil, Despite

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• 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

  Girl, Buttons, Sound

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• 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

  Names, Alcohol, Heaven

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• 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.

  Merle Haggard

  Mom, Love You, Order

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• 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

  Song, Thinking, Littles

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• 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.

  Merle Haggard

  Marijuana, Living Right, Alcohol

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• In my life there were a lot of situations where I could have been killed or some officer might have been killed chasing me, a lot of things could be different. Now, you know that's experience you can't buy. And it's there in my rearview mirror and I can refer to it in my writing. I have the experience to talk about things some people only imagine.

  Merle Haggard

  Writing, People, Different

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I think we have to have capital punishment, I think there has to be something to contain certain people. Those deterrents I think are necessary, especially in prison. You can threaten people for just so long, but they can flip you off and do what they want to; but not if they have to die. I hate it, though, the thought of the death penalty is terrible, but it's completely necessary.

  Merle Haggard

  Hate, Thinking, People

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I just follow my nose, and instead of letting someone run my affairs and probably make me wealthy within a matter of years, I've just kept the board of directors down to zero. I make all the decisions, and they can't all be right, and my lifestyle is very expensive, so that means I have to work a lot. It's the opposite side of the coin from sinking back into the recliner and becoming somebody they bury.

  Merle Haggard

  Running, Mean, Decision

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The one true friend I thought I'd found, tonight the bottle let me down.

  Merle Haggard

  Friendship, True Friend, Bottles

  Song: Tonight, The Bottle Let Me Down

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• I'm just writin' about my little ol' love affair.

  Merle Haggard

  Littles, Affair, Love Affair

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• No, it's not love, but it's not bad.

  Merle Haggard

  Endearment

  Song: It's Not Love

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• 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

  Thinking, Should Have, Drug

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• 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.

  Merle Haggard

  Squares, Old Glory, White

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• I can't really say why everyone loves Bob Wills' music, but I have yet to meet a person who didn't like it.

  Merle Haggard

  Bob, One Love, Persons

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