Hank Williams was my idol. He was the first real…

Serena Williams has always been my idol... and Venus. They are the reason why I wanted to pick up a tennis racket.

— Coco Gauff

My parents listened to the Outlaws when I was a kid and I just had no interest in it. But my boyfriend at the…

— Lydia Loveless

To me, an outlaw is a man that did things his own way, whether you liked him or not. I did things my own…

— Johnny Paycheck

There is a large difference in country music and outlaw music.

— Johnny Paycheck

To me, an 'outlaw' is a man that did things his own way, whether you liked him or not.

— Johnny Paycheck

I love the outlaw image and I think the industry has needed it. It takes the artist off a pedestal and brings him down…

— Johnny Paycheck

I hope it doesn't come to the place where people come to see an outlaw instead of a singer.

— Johnny Paycheck

When I was very, very young, I decided that I was gonna catalogue my times because that's what other people who I admired did.…

— Bruce Springsteen

My father took me to see Hank Williams on December 14th, 1952. I was two years and four months of age. And I remember…

— Rodney Crowell

I turned 30 as a janitor. I was thinking at the time that Hank Williams died when he was 29. All my peers were…

— Kris Kristofferson

Each Hank Williams has always had an independent streak.

— Hank Williams III

I grew up listening to my mother's collection of Hank Williams, George Jones and Marty Robbins records.

— Keith Whitley

A significant event for me was learning Hank Williams, reconnecting with his music's simplicity, which inspired me to inhabit the same territory. It's different,…

— Stone Gossard

Listen, the story of the United States is this: One kid, without anything, walks out of his house, down the road, with nothing but…

— T Bone Burnett

There's only one Hank Williams, man. Singing that high-voiced style, them bluegrassers, I don't see how they do it - Jimmy Martin, Bill Monroe…

— Hank Williams III