Quotes by Charlie Daniels - Page 1

We can get rid of red tape.
Charlie Daniels / Musician
Red
Red Lips
Red Tape
Tape
Rid
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I don't want to be without God's blessings.
Charlie Daniels / Musician
Blessing
Want
Without God
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He may look dumb, but that's just a disguise.
Charlie Daniels / Musician
Friendship
Dumb
Looks
May
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What this world needs is a few more Rednecks.
Charlie Daniels / Musician
Needs
Redneck
World
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I'm not ashamed of the gospel of Jesus Christ.
Charlie Daniels / Musician
Jesus
Christ
Jesus Christ
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I couldn't care less about politically correct.
Charlie Daniels / Musician
Care
Politically Correct
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I just can't imagine not having something to do.
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I don't want to go anywhere where Jesus can't go.
Charlie Daniels / Musician
Jesus
Want
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My wife is my best friend, by far my best friend.
Charlie Daniels / Musician
My Best Friend
My Wife
Wife
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The word 'retirement' is not in my vocabulary right now.
Charlie Daniels / Musician
Retirement
Right Now
Vocabulary
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I don't know where the time went. I sure have enjoyed it.
Charlie Daniels / Musician
Enjoyed
Knows
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If I can't take Jesus Christ with me, I don't want to go.
Charlie Daniels / Musician
Jesus
Christ
Want
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I love being Charlie Daniels for good, bad, or indifferent.
Charlie Daniels / Musician
Charlie
Indifferent
Love Is
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You'd better watch where you go, and remember where you've been
Charlie Daniels / Musician
Remember
Watches
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I ain't askin' nobody for nuttin' if I cain't get it on my own.
Charlie Daniels / Musician
Cain
Ifs
My Own
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I can't imagine not having a reason to get out of bed at night.
Charlie Daniels / Musician
Bed
Imagine
Night
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I wouldn't trade places with anybody in the world. I love what I do.
Charlie Daniels / Musician
Trade
World
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Marry somebody you love. That's the whole thing. And continue to love them.
Charlie Daniels / Musician
Fun
Whole
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I have people talking about, "Boy, I hate to go to work." I love to go to work!
Charlie Daniels / Musician
Boys
Hate
Talking
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I just thank God I can make a living doing something I enjoy as much as I do playing music.
Charlie Daniels / Musician
Enjoy
Playing Music
Thank God
God Music Thank God
Thank
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I'm not ashamed of the gospel of Jesus Christ... if I can't take him with me, I don't want to go.
Charlie Daniels / Musician
Jesus
Christ
Want
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I just feel such freedom to do whatever. If a song's seven minutes or ten minutes long, then so be it - it's that long.
Charlie Daniels / Musician
Long
Seven
Song
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I think we should keep voting, I think we should keep supporting things that we believe in. I don't think we ought to just quit.
Charlie Daniels / Musician
Believe
Thinking
Voting
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So say it loud and let it ring We are all a part of everything The future, present and the past Fly on proud bird You're free at last
Charlie Daniels / Musician
Death
Bird
Dying
Past
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We didn't have a garage to rehearse in. We had to aggravate the folks in the house. But I got a chance to play in a beer joint, and that's how it started.
Charlie Daniels / Musician
Aggravation
Beer
Garage
Play
Aggravate
Joint
Rehearse
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The news is not about news anymore. It's about protecting some people, destroying others and shoving a socialist agenda down the collective throats of America.
Charlie Daniels / Musician
America
Evil
People
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I should be the one to say what I do. It's just not done that way anymore in Nashville, and I can't do it the other way. That's how our record label came about.
Charlie Daniels / Musician
Nashville
Anymore
Label
Record Label
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The funny thing is, the music that I'm writing now is probably some of the most cutting edge we've ever done. The music that I'm thinking about putting on our next album.
Charlie Daniels / Musician
Cutting
Cutting Edge
Album
Edge
Funny Thing
Putting
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I can't wait to get off the bus and... go on stage and entertain people. That's my thing, that's what I love. I love doing it... I thank God I can make a living doing it.
Charlie Daniels / Musician
People
Thank God
Waiting
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Any accolades that anybody puts toward this band really makes me feel good, because I have devoted such a big part of my life to this band, making it what I want it to be.
Charlie Daniels / Musician
Accolades
Devoted
Feel Good
Life Good Me
Big Part
Life Good Feel Good
Puts
Such A Big Part
Toward
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Just take them rascals [rapists, killers, child abusers] out in the swamp / Put 'em on their knees and tie 'em to a stump / Let the rattlers and the bugs and the alligators do the rest.
Charlie Daniels / Musician
Children
Killers
Ties
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I don't want to be without God's blessings. If it's inconvenient, then it's just inconvenient. If somebody don't like it, then somebody just don't like it. That is part of me. That's who I am.
Charlie Daniels / Musician
Blessing
Want
Who I Am
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My next project will be a Christian album, another one. I wrote the songs for the ones you're referring to, but I want to do some of my old gospel favorites. That's what my next album's going to be.
Charlie Daniels / Musician
Albums
Christian
Referring
Song
Album
Gospel
Favorites
Project
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I do more writing by myself than with anybody else. My best thing is sitting...around somewhere with a guitar, and having an idea. You never know where it'd come from. Songwriting is a God-given talent.
Charlie Daniels / Musician
Music
Guitar
Writing
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I had been on the road for a long time and was not really getting anywhere. Bob Johnston, a friend of mine, had taken over Columbia in Nashville. He asked me if I wanted to come down. I did - thank God I did.
Charlie Daniels / Musician
Columbia
Long
Long Time
Nashville
Taken
Thank God
Time God Me
Anywhere
God Time Long
God Time Me
God Time Thank God
Mine
Thank
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There's a lathered sorrel stallion running through the Joshua trees and a young man in the saddle with his coat tails in the breeze. He's got a six gun on his right hip and a rifle at his knees and he's dealing in a game that he can't win.
Charlie Daniels / Musician
Running
Men
Gun
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People say, "Well, we're all just going to die and go to heaven anyway, or Jesus is going to come back" or something. I don't feel like God wants us just to lay down and die just because that's going to happen. I think we should keep trying.
Charlie Daniels / Musician
Jesus
People
Thinking
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You marry somebody you love, that you feel like you want to spend the rest of your life with, that you're excited to wake up with every morning if you enjoy spending the day with. Right now... my wife is my best friend, by far my best friend.
Charlie Daniels / Musician
Morning
My Best Friend
Wife
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I love my country. I love my guns. I love my family. I love the way it is now, and anybody that tries to change it has to come through me. That should be all of our attitudes. Cause this is America, and a country boy is good enough for me, son.
Charlie Daniels / Musician
Attitude
Country
Son
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Country music has changed tremendously, so what now is considered country was not considered country at that time. We were doing stuff that probably could have been called country music today, but would certainly have not have fit in at that time.
Charlie Daniels / Musician
Fit
Time Music Today
Considered
Country Music
Tremendously
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As in the case of California, the wolf is at the door of America and the present administration acts as if it's a pussycat. America cannot maintain the present entitlement programs and support a government this size and keep on living on a credit card.
Charlie Daniels / Musician
Government
California
Doors
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It's quite a traumatic thing for a lot of our veterans that come back... You're in a war zone, you're dodging IED's and bullets one day and a couple days later you're back in society again with a bunch of people that have no idea of what you've been through.
Charlie Daniels / Musician
War
Couple
Ideas
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Well, I just can't play the game anymore. I'm 63 years old, and I've been in the business for 40 years now. I take good advice and direction really well, but I don't need somebody that finished college two years ago to come in and tell me what I should be recording.
Charlie Daniels / Musician
Advice
College
Finished
Games
Good Advice
Years
Years Ago
Good Business Me
Anymore
Direction
Business Good Game
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A friend of mine, that I had known for some time, came up one day with an old guitar. I don't know where he got it, I don't know how long he'd had it, but he knew about two chords on it. He proceeded to teach them to me, and then we proceeded to go crazy over music.
Charlie Daniels / Musician
Chords
Crazy
Guitar
One Day
Teach
Two
Time Music Guitar
Mine
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I've been to Iraq three times. I've been to Afghanistan, I've been quite a few places, and I want to tell you something, these kids, they're the best we've got. They're the best Americans, they're the most loyal Americans we've got. And we owe them when they come back.
Charlie Daniels / Musician
Kids
Iraq
Three
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The United States of America took a giant step toward a totalitarian socialist government when the Supreme Court voted to uphold Obamacare, allowing the individual mandate for the government to force American citizens to buy health insurance whether they want to or not.
Charlie Daniels / Musician
America
Obamacare
Socialist Government
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If I come across an issue, or something I feel strongly about, and I happen to think of a song that would go in that direction, then I do it. But that's not what I start out, necessarily, to do. Sometimes I may have an idea for a song - "Well, I'm going to write about a thing.
Charlie Daniels / Musician
Song
Thinking
Writing
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Make sure to be honest with yourself, about if that's really what you want to do with your life - to make music. It takes a commitment - a tremendous, thick-skinned commitment of being the first one to get there and the last one to leave, doing what you want to do even if you have to work twice as hard as anybody else ever did.
Charlie Daniels / Musician
Commitment
Doing What You Want
Lasts
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Little Jimmy Dickens has long been a musical hero of mine and one of the finest entertainers to ever step on any stage. I was deeply honored to call him a friend and will always remember the time I got to spend with him. The music world has lost one of our greatest treasures. Rest in peace, my little friend. You were loved by so many of us!
Charlie Daniels / Musician
Greatest Treasure
Hero
Rest In Peace
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