I didn't get to meet Hank Williams. I was in the Air Force on Okinawa when he passed away.

But if you put a script up in front of me to read, or a cue card, I couldn't do it without stuttering.

And my daddy could play a harmonica and also the guitar, so I guess I got a little bit from both of 'em, but I think mostly from my mother's side of the family.

You know, it comes from my mother's side of the family. She had seven sisters and one brother, and all of them could play instruments. I suppose I picked it up from that.

I'm gonna do between 75 and 100 dates. A lot of it will be in Laughlin, Nevada; I'll be there for two weeks. And I'll work some casinos here and there, and the fair dates.

And then, when I started to school, I found out I couldn't talk.

But in those days - in the mid-'50s, early '60s - there was less than 300 radio stations that were playing country music and a lot of that wasn't full time.

And I had to take care of a little dog too named Suzy. It was the promoter's wife's - Judy Lynn's - it was her dog. And one of my duties going on the tour was to take care of it.

I'll do about 13 shows in Branson next year, and I'll be performing at the Grand Palace.

The voice of love calls to you, my son.

If you don't build your dream, someone else will hire you to help them build theirs.

Blacks' problems lie not in the heads of white people but rather in the wasted and incompletely fulfilled lives of too many black people.

Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower.

Life without Liberty is like a body without spirit. Liberty without thought is like a disturbed spirit.

Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.

...if I have ever met someone without a single shadow on their heart, it was surely a child too young for speaking.

When we have broken our god of tradition, and ceased from our god of rhetoric, then may God fire the heart with His presence.

Let's live with that small pittance which we have; Who covets more is evermore a slave.

My wife was my greatest asset. I didn't marry her until after World War II, but she has complemented me in every job I've ever had