Hank Williams Quotes

• 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

  Jeans, Indie Rock, Rocks

  "Kelly Clarkson Covers Lucky Magazine August 2012, Talks Bandage Dresses". Lucky Magazine Interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 03, 2012.

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• 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

  Song, Cowboy, Guitar

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• I got Jimmy Hall from Wet Willie and he also plays now with Hank Williams Jr.

  Gregg Allman

  Play, Halls, Wet

  Interview with Paul Harris, paulharrisonline.blogspot.com. December 12, 1997.

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• I started writing songs after I heard Hank Williams.

  Bob Dylan

  Country, Song, Writing

  Bob Dylan (1995). “The fiddler now upspoke: a collection of Bob Dylan's interviews, press conferences and the like from throughout the masters career”

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• One night I was sitting listening to some Hank Williams songs - and they'll change your life in a hurry.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Song, Night, Listening

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• 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

  Song, Art, Writing

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• Jake La Botz is a creator of dark poetry and haunting song, the kind of music that gets in your bones and rides you for days, a sound and vision only those who've been to the bottom and clawed their way back up can generate. His midnight gifts evoke Hank Williams and Skip James as much as Tom Waits and Dylan. Not everybody will get this music - because not everybody is ready for the truth.

  Jerry Stahl

  Song, Dark, Waiting

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• 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

  Music, Song, Style

  "Neil Young pays tribute to country music". www.today.com. August 27, 2005.

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• 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

  People, Radio, Kind

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• 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

  America, Secret, Stories

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I'd put Hank Williams picture on one hundred dollar bills.

  Hank Williams, Jr.

  Dollar Bills, Dollars, Politics

  Song: If the South Woulda Won

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• 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

  Thinking, Soul, Listening

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• Frank [Sinatra] sang to you, not at you, like so many pop singers today. Even singers of standards. I never wanted to be a singer that sings at somebody. I've always wanted to sing to somebody. I would have gotten that subliminally from Frank many years ago. Hank Williams did that, too. He sang to you.

  Bob Dylan

  Years, Singers, Today

  Source: www.aarp.org

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• 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

  Country, Song, Fall

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• I hate categories. Hank Williams is a great artist, period. Bob Dylan is a great artist, so is Marty Robbins. They just classify these people and put them in categories so they can sell the thing easier.

  George Thorogood

  Hate, Artist, People

  Source: lynnhappens.com

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• My father had a varied ear, from Hank Williams to Ravel.

  Madeleine Peyroux

  Father, Ears, Ravel

  "The singer who disappeared" by Todd Leopold, www.cnn.com. January 12, 2005.

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• I love Hank Williams. Who doesn't love Hank Williams? So my choices are not that surprising.

  George Thorogood

  Choices, Surprising

  Source: lynnhappens.com

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• Listen, the story of the United States is this: One kid, without anything, walks out of his house, down the road, with nothing but a guitar and conquers the world. And we've done that again, and again, and again – Johnny Cash, Hank Williams, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Jimmy Rogers, Howlin' Wolf, Muddy Waters.

  T Bone Burnett

  Kids, Guitar, Conquer The World

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• I realized a lot of my friends were going to nightclubs and listening to house music. I was hanging out with them and going to clubs as well but I didn't really understand that kind of music. I was listening to country music and was heavily into Hank Williams, bluegrass, and Bob Dylan. So I just decided I really needed to understand what this music I was hearing in the clubs was all about.

  Hans-Peter Lindstrøm

  Country, House, Listening

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I just want the songs to have the staying power as my favorite songs. If you listen to any Hank Williams song, when you're in a good mood, it's going to put you in a better mood. If you happen to be bummed-out, you're going to feel maybe a little more bummed-out and better at the same time. At any time in my life, his music has had meaning and value to me. If a song can shape-shift in that way, that's a sign of success.

  M. Ward

  Song, Shapes, Want

  Interview with Steven Hyden, music.avclub.com. May 10, 2007.

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• 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

  Country, Simplicity, Degrees

  "From Ticketmaster to Trees: An Interview With Pearl Jam Guitarist Stone Gossard". Interview with Scott Thill, www.wired.com. October 17, 2008.

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• 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

  Corn Flakes, Blue, Sea

  Song: Here I Am

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• Country music is full of affairs and cheating; that's where all those Hank Williams songs come from.

  Robert Hilburn

  Country, Cheating, Song

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• Speaking of people I had to exclude: Hank Williams. which is to say, songs are part of lyric poetry in my book, my thinking. In fact they are the urgent element of poetry in our time, they carry the most emotion for the most people in our culture. everyone LOVES poetry, because we all love (one form or another) of rock and roll (be it folk to emo to rap). It's all rock and roll and all lyric poetry.

  Gregory Orr

  Song, Emo, Book

  Source: therumpus.net

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• 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

  Swings, Giving, Tuning

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