It was down in Louisiana. Just a mile from. Texarkana In…

It may sound a little funny but you didn't make very much money. In them old cotton fields back home.

— Lead Belly

Geoff Muldaur was and is one of my musical heroes. When I listen to him sing and play, I can hear the coal mine,…

— Loudon Wainwright III

When I think about the auto-industry and how it was one of the industries that brought all of these black men from the South…

— Bell Hooks

I used to work in the cotton fields a lot when I was young. There were a lot of African Americans working out there.…

— Willie Nelson

I am a woman who came from the cotton fields of the South. From there I was promoted to the washtub. From there I…

— Madam C. J. Walker

Gone are the days when my heart was young and gay, Gone are my friends from the cotton fields away, Gone from the earth…

— Stephen Foster

My childhood home backed onto wheat and cotton fields.

— Robert B. Laughlin

The white American man makes the white American woman maybe not superfluous but just a little kind of decoration. Not really important to turning…

— Maya Angelou

I like myself better when I'm writing regularly. ... I was influenced a lot by those around me-there was a lot of singing that…

— Willie Nelson

Sam Phillips always encouraged me to do it my way, to use whatever other influences I wanted, but never to copy...if there hadn't been…

— Johnny Cash

African Americans were responsible for creating a lot of this beautiful and elaborate ironwork; we weren't just working in the cotton fields.

— Philip Freelon

My mother told me to keep on singing, and that kept me working through the cotton fields. She said God has his hand on…

— Johnny Cash

I wish they'd had electric guitars in cotton fields back in the good old days. A whole lot of things would've been straightened out.

— Jimi Hendrix

I was influenced a lot by those around me - there was a lot of singing that went on in the cotton fields.

— Willie Nelson

Louisiana's spicy, colorful politics have saddled our state with a reputation for tolerating lax ethical standards in government.

— John Kennedy