Quotes by Buck Owens - Page 1

The road had the lonely times, but I kept myself busy.
Buck Owens / Musician
Busy
Lonely
Had
Times
Road
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I've got the hungries for your love and I'm waiting in your welfare line.
Buck Owens / Musician
Lines
Waiting
Welfare
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The biggest fool to hit the big time and all I've got to do is act naturally.
Buck Owens / Musician
Art
Fool
Media
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I'm gonna still play some dates, but I'm not gonna do anything near like I did it before.
Buck Owens / Musician
Play
Stills
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We were sharecroppers - we were a little bit of everything. We farmed and tried to make something.
Buck Owens / Musician
Little Bit
Bit
Tried
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Satan's gotta get along without me. Since I've broke the chain of sin I know for sure that he can't win.
Buck Owens / Musician
Satan
Sin
Winning
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The last 16 years of my daddys life, he got to work for me, and that made him his own boss and he like that.
Buck Owens / Musician
Boss
Lasts
Years
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And I said, 'Why not? It's the truth! Why can't I say I'm a Beatles fan?' I used to get criticized for that.
Buck Owens / Musician
Why Not
Criticized
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If you want me in the Hall of Fame put me in because of some contributions that I have made to country music.
Buck Owens / Musician
Country
Fame
Want
Music Me Country
Contributions
Country Music
Hall
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The last 16 years of my daddy's life, he got to work for me, and that made him his own boss and he like that.
Buck Owens / Musician
Boss
Daddy
Life Work Me
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I am who I am, I am what I am, I do what I do and I ain't never gonna do it any different. I don't care who likes it and who don't.
Buck Owens / Musician
Care
Different
Don't Care
Likes
Who I Am
Am
Any
Never
Who
Gonna
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But most distinctly, I remember always saying to myself that when I get big, I'm not going to go to bed hungry, I'm not going to wear hand-me-down clothes.
Buck Owens / Musician
Bed
Clothes
Hands
Hungry
Myself Remember Always
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I didn't say I wasn't gonna do rockabilly. I just said I ain't gonna sing no song that ain't a country song. I won't be known as anything but a country singer.
Buck Owens / Musician
Country
Country Singer
Rockabilly
Singers
Song
Singer
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I'm in an absolute frenzy towards doing as many things as I can that I want to do today. The rest can wait till tomorrow, next week, if I'm around we'll take a look.
Buck Owens / Musician
Frenzy
Next Week
Tomorrow
Waiting
Want
Absolute
Wait
Towards
Till
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I got to realizing that I wanted to record, I wanted to experiment. And doing those same old songs the same old way - I said, 'I think it's time for me to have some fun.'
Buck Owens / Musician
Fun
Realizing
Said
Song
Thinking
Wanted
Time Me Fun
Old
Experiment
Record
Old Songs
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I'm from the Bob Wills and the Little Richard school of music. Bob Wills did what the hell he thought, Little Richard did what he thought, and those were my big influences.
Buck Owens / Musician
Bob
Littles
School
Influences
Wills
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I'd like to be remembered as a guy that came along and did his music, did his best and showed up on time, clean and ready to do the job, wrote a few songs and had a hell of a time.
Buck Owens / Musician
Jobs
Guy
Song
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I'd like just to be remembered as a guy that came along and did his music, did his best and showed up on time, clean and ready to do the job, wrote a few songs, and had a hell of a time.
Buck Owens / Musician
Clean
Ready
Remembered
Best Time Music
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We used to get one room and we'd park the vehicle outside, everybody would all take showers and we'd steal towels because we knew we wasn't gonna have enough towels for all five of us to shower.
Buck Owens / Musician
Towels
Vehicle
Park
Shower
Steal
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I enjoyed the Hee Haw people, but from 1980 on I didn't enjoy it and thought about leavin', and thought, hell, it's an easy job and pays wonderful. I kinda just prostituted myself for their money.
Buck Owens / Musician
Enjoyed
Haw
Pays
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My mother told me on several different occasions that she was livin' her dream vicariously through me. She once said that I was getting to do all the things that she would have wanted to have done.
Buck Owens / Musician
Dream
Mom
Mother
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My mother told me on several different occasions that she was livin' her dream vicariously through me. She once said that I was getting' to do all the things that she would have wanted to have done.
Buck Owens / Musician
Mom
Several
Vicariously
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I remember as a kid being cold a lot, and hungry sometimes. Wed go to bed with just cornbread and milk, and I remember wearing shoes with holes in the bottom. I remember having twine for shoestrings.
Buck Owens / Musician
Kids
Milk
Shoes
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You get up about 2-3 oclock in the morning and get through about 7 or 8 and 12 hours later you start all over. Thats the worst kind of work a person can do. You have to do these two shifts to get one day.
Buck Owens / Musician
Morning
One Day
Two
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You get up about 2-3 o'clock in the morning and get through about 7 or 8 and 12 hours later you start all over. That's the worst kind of work a person can do. You have to do these two shifts to get one day.
Buck Owens / Musician
One Day
Work Morning Day
Worst Kind
Shifts
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I was always very grateful to 'em and am grateful to 'em now. I went back a couple of years ago and did their 20th anniversary show. But the longer I stayed on Hee Haw, the worse things got for me musically.
Buck Owens / Musician
Anniversary
Smile
Couple
Grateful
Years
Years Ago
Haw
Musically
Stayed
Worse
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I never expected to record again. I knew I had done everything I ever wanted to do. I was satisfied. But... all the time I'm watching the country music horizon. And I'm sayin' 'Lord, is there anybody gonna come?'
Buck Owens / Musician
Horizon
Lord
Satisfied
Time Music Done
Country Music
Time Music Country
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I found a sound that people really liked - I found this basic concept and all I did was change the lyrics and the melody a little bit. My songs, if you listen to them, they're quite a lot alike, like Chuck Berry.
Buck Owens / Musician
Change
Chuck
Melody
People
Song
Alike
Basic
Berry
Concept
Quite A Lot
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That was where my dream began to take hold, of not havin' to pick cotton and potatoes, and not havin' to be uncomfortable, too hot or too cold. That in itself had driven me to try to find some better way of life.
Buck Owens / Musician
Dream
Cold
Cotton
Driven
Potatoes
Trying
Uncomfortable
Life Me Better
Began
Better Way
Life Better Me
Pick
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Lady Limelight is a jealous lady. She wants all of your attention. You dont have any time to think of anything else but Lady Limelight, because pretty soon that light will be shinning on somebody else. So you better do it while you can.
Buck Owens / Musician
Jealous
Attention
Light
Thinking
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Lady Limelight is a jealous lady. She wants all of your attention. You don't have any time to think of anything else but Lady Limelight, because pretty soon that light will be shinning on somebody else. So you better do it while you can.
Buck Owens / Musician
Jealous
Attention
Light
Somebody
Pretty
Anything Else
Lady
Wants
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A guy said to me, 'You're so lucky. You have people like Ray Charles, Barbra Streisand and The Beatles doing your songs.' I figured out, though, the harder I work the luckier I get. The secret of anything is to surround yourself with good people if you want a good product.
Buck Owens / Musician
Guy
People
Song
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