Take your tongue out of my mouth, I’m kissing you good-bye.
Ladies love outlaws, like babies love stray dogs. Ladies touch babies like a banker touches gold, outlaws touch ladies somewhere deep down in their soul.
I’m just a man, no more or no less. Bad as the worst, good as the best.
Country music isn’t a guitar, it isn’t a banjo, it isn’t a melody, it isn’t a lyric. It’s a feeling.
Don’t ever try and be like anybody else and don’t be afraid to take risks.
I may be crazy, but it keeps me from going insane.
I ain’t got no reverse. I’ve learned, a little later in life, it works out pretty good to have one every once in a while.
So I’m not very popular here with those inside the system, as you might guess. I never wanted to be.
If you have the courage and you have the heart, that hero just might be you.
I’ve always felt that blues, rock ‘n’ roll and country are just about a beat apart.
The Hank Williams Syndrome: Come to Nashville, write some good songs, cut some hit records, make money, take all the drugs you can and drink all you can, become a wild man and all of a sudden die.
When I look at you girl, I see a true work of art. So many beautiful things coming in one little heart.
Honesty is something you can’t wear out.
I might be an endangered species.
Each tomorrow will depend on the love you give today.
Don’t you be so nice to me; I fall in love so easily.
It was all devastating. I’d never dealt with losing anyone close to me, and I didn’t know where to put it in my life. I was very young then. Buddy taught me so much in such a short time.
Is your head up your ass so far that you can’t pull it out?
The rock and roll spirit. I learned a lot of that because I worked with Buddy Holly. I played bass with him, and he taught me a lot about that.
I could have killed her when we first met and I’ve been out of jail by now.