Country Music History Quotes
They Said It
| "You don't know ol' Hank. Hank don't just have one beer." - Hank Williams refusing a beer with lunch on the day of his first recording session, 194614 |
| "I always said I look like a woman but think like a man." - Dolly Parton15 |
| "I don't have skin hang-ups. I'm no color. I'm just Charley Pride, the man." - Charley Pride, the African-American country artist who recorded 29 chart-topping singles in his career16 |
| "If I could find a white man who had the Negro sound and the Negro feel, I could make a billion dollars." - Attributed to Sun Records head Sam Phillips (who found just that man when he became the first to record Elvis Presley), early 1950s17 |
| "My life would make a damn good country song." - Jerry Lee Lewis, country music's lord of excess and greatest wildman, 197518 |
| "They told me to be nice. I don't know what they meant." - Waylon Jennings, "outlaw" country icon, 197519 |
| "The program is morally good." - From a flyer advertising a performance by the Carter Family20 |
| "After half a century of condescension, neglect and even ridicule, country in all its guises—bluegrass, heart songs, western ballads, rural blues, delta white soul, Memphis honky-tonk and of course the familiar pop hybrid known as the Nashville Sound—is in the midst of an astronomic growth and gives no signs of stopping." - Time magazine, 197421 |