38 Quotes by Mel Tillis

And you know, we'd go to church. We were Baptists. And every now and then there'd be a tent would set up, and it was the Holiness folks. And we liked their music.

Or in the early days we didn't have the bus, we had a station wagon.

So when I leave here at the first of the year it'll become... well, it's already open on Sundays as a church. But it'll be a full-time church.

And I got to know Red Foley well. And I got to know Lefty really well, he was a great guy.

I've got a sock drawer full of songs that I've started but, you know, I'm doing two shows a day here and it's just hard to sit down and finish them.

No, my son's a songwriter and he does that.

I remember li'l ol' Hank Jr. - he was just a baby back in them days, you know - but he used to hang around. His mama would bring him around. He was just a natural.

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.