“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.”
“Nobody knows I’m Elvis, nobody knows this is me. After all of my tries, I’ve got the perfect disguise”
“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.”
“There’s always one more way to do something– your way.”
“The men who could not fight, in a war that didn’t seem right. You let them come home, America”
“I’m just a man, no more or no less. Bad as the worst, good as the best.”
“To me a guitar is kind of like a woman. You don’t know why you like ’em but you do.”
“Heaven is laying in my sweet baby’s arms, hell is when my baby’s not here”
“I was king of the mountain for a long time, well, I don’t want that no more. I like to perform every once in a while for people who want to see me, and cut albums of music that is what I’m really about”
“There’s always one more way to do things and that’s your way, and you have a right to try it at least once”
“The only problem was I needed to use my own group, and things didn’t happen until I did. It wasn’t a real country sound, what I did. I’ve listened to it, and I think it was more a west coast rock thing, you know? But it fit. It was country, but it was my own interpretation of country”
“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.”
“Each tomorrow will depend on the love you give today.”
“If you see me getting smaller, I’m leaving, don’t be grieving, just gotta get away from here. If you see me getting smaller, don’t worry, I’m in no hurry, I’ve got the right to disappear.”
“I didn’t aim at anything except good music”
“This world that I live in is empty and cold/the loneliness cuts me and tortures my soul.”
“I may be crazy, but it keeps me from going insane”
“There’s always one more way to do things and that’s your way, and you have a right to try it at least once.”
“Honesty is something you can’t wear out.”
“If you have the courage and you have the heart, that hero just might be you”
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