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 have noticed that these pop bands will play our hillbilly songs when they cain't eat any other way!

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

You booked him, and you didn't worry about crowds. For drawing power in the South, it was Roy Acuff, then God.

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.

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

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.

My mother played the organ in church at Georgiana, and I sat on the seat beside her.

I learned to play the git-tar from an old colored man in the streets of Montgomery. He was named Tetot, and he played in a colored street band.