Quotes from Hank Williams

There ain't nobody I'd rather have alongside me in a fight than my mama with a broken bottle in her hand.

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.

There ain't a man livin' who hasn't talked to his dog.

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.

Man, it's hell to have a wife who thinks she can sing, and she can't.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

If you're gonna sing, sing 'em something they can understand.

I think I'm good enough to play and sing.

You got to have smelt a lot of mule manure before you can sing like a hillbilly.

To sing like a hillbilly, you had to have lived like a hillbilly. You had to have smelt a lot of mule manure.

I have been living in Montgomery so long that I call it home.

The way I feel is that if you don't like folk music, stay away from my shows.

I don't know one note from another.

I can settle down and be doing just fineTill I hear an old train rolling down the line,Then I hurry straight home and packAnd if I didn't go, I believe I'd blow my stackI love you baby, but you gotta understandWhen the Lord made me he made a ramblin' man

Hear that lonesome whippoorwill?He sounds too blue to fly.The midnight train is whining low,I'm so lonesome I could cry.

My daddy, he was somewhere between God and John Wayne.

Say hey, good lookin',What you got cookin',How's about cookin' something up with me?

Don't take life TOO serious you can't get out alive anyhow.

I ain't gonna worry wrinkles in my brow, cuz nothin's never gonna be alright nohow. No matter how I struggle and strive, I'll never get out of this world alive.

No matter how I struggle and strive, I'll never get out of this world alive.