Quotes by Hank Williams - Page 1

I don't know one note from another.
Hank Williams /
Note
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There ain't a man livin' who hasn't talked to his dog.
Hank Williams /
Dog
His
Talked
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If you think I'm a drunk, you shoulda seen my old man.
Hank Williams /
Drunk
Old Man
Man Old Man Old
Seen
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I have been living in Montgomery so long that I call it home.
Hank Williams /
Montgomery
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If you're gonna sing, sing 'em something they can understand.
Hank Williams /
Understand
Gonna
Sing
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I'm nothing but a drunkard. Why do people expect me to be anything else?
Hank Williams /
Me People Nothing
Drunkard
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Folk songs express the dreams and prayers and hopes of the working people.
Hank Williams /
Folk Songs
Working
Express
Folk
Hopes
Prayers
Working People
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The way I feel is that if you don't like folk music, stay away from my shows.
Hank Williams /
Folk Music
Music Way Feel
Folk
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You got to have smelt a lot of mule manure before you can sing like a hillbilly.
Hank Williams /
Hillbilly
Manure
Mule
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My mother played the organ in church at Georgiana, and I sat on the seat beside her.
Hank Williams /
Beside
Seat
Organ
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I have noticed that these pop bands will play our hillbilly songs when they cain't eat any other way!
Hank Williams /
Hillbilly
Any Other Way
Noticed
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There ain't nobody I'd rather have alongside me in a fight than my mama with a broken bottle in her hand.
Hank Williams /
Broken
Mama
Alongside
Nobody
Bottle
Fight
Hand
Her
Rather
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To sing like a hillbilly, you had to have lived like a hillbilly. You had to have smelt a lot of mule manure.
Hank Williams /
Hillbilly
Manure
Mule
Sing
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You booked him, and you didn't worry about crowds. For drawing power in the South, it was Roy Acuff, then God.
Hank Williams /
Crowds
Drawing
Booked
Roy
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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.
Hank Williams /
Pretty Good
Roy
Singin
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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.
Hank Williams /
Funny
Comedy
Mad
Orchestra
Song
Funny Me Song
Funny Me Comedy
Hear
Highway
Popular
Wreck
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I learned to play the git-tar from an old colored man in the streets of Montgomery. He was named Tetot, and he played in a colored street band.
Hank Williams /
Montgomery
Streets
Named
Colored
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I've just signed a contract to make records in Nashville. It won't amount to much at first, but after a year or so, I will really be in the money.
Hank Williams /
Nashville
Contract
Signed
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Personally, I cain't stand classical stuff, but I don't tell the world about it. I just turn the radio off. Now, why cain't these folks who don't like my kind of music do the same?
Hank Williams /
Radio
Classical
Personally
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I wish I was back at WSFA making twelve dollars a week. At least then, if someone come to see me, I'd know they were coming to see me. Now I reckon they just want something from me.
Hank Williams /
Dollars
Twelve
Wish
Me Know See
Coming
Me Back See
Least
Reckon
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In this business, if you're a success, there's some folks who actually worship you. I have been to some places where it's impossible to walk across the stage without having the major portion of my outfit torn off for souvenirs.
Hank Williams /
Torn
Worship
Outfit
Portion
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Somebody got the idea nobody didn't listen to my kind 'a music. I told everybody on the radio that this was my last program. 'If anybody's enjoyed it,' I said, 'I'd like to hear from 'em.' I got 400 cards and letters that afternoon and the next mornin'... They decided they wanted to keep my kind of music.
Hank Williams /
Afternoon
Cards
Letters
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