I was mainly influenced by the Carter Family, Jimmie Rodgers, Loretta Lynn, Merle Haggard, and others like Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash. — Iris DeMent Copy Share Image
Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Merle Haggard, Hank Williams...all of them are different styles, but those are the songs that make the times...they're… — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
Beyond the town, darker than dark, King Haggard's castle teetered like a lunatic on stilts... — Peter S. Beagle Copy Share Image
She was wearing the same clothes, but now she looked haggard and dirty. The delicate illusions that get us through life can… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Around 14, I was turned on to Shania, Reba, Merle Haggard, Garth Brooks, Trisha Yearwood... and I've followed it ever since. — Laura Bell Bundy Copy Share Image
If there ever was a poet for the working class Billy Joe Shaver and Merle Haggard would be my nomination — David Allan Coe Copy Share Image
I can't be gay! I'm a happily married conservative, just like Ted Haggard and Larry Craig. — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
O jealousy, Thou ugliest fiend of hell! thy deadly venom Preys on my vitals, turns the healthful hue Of my flesh check… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
I think it's just too kinda juicy and compelling to imagine people in their private lives, but then half the time people's… — Jerry Stahl Copy Share Image
The truth is that trout fishermen scheme and lie and toss in their sleep. They dream of great dripping trout, shapely and… — John D. Voelker Copy Share Image
I try to write like the writers I admire - I rip them off in form. It comes from George Strait and… — Brad Paisley Copy Share Image
A public domain work is an orphan. No one is responsible for its life. But everyone exploits its use, until that time… — Jack Valenti Copy Share Image
Haggard, I would not be you for all the world," he declared. "You have let your doom in by the front door,… — Peter S. Beagle Copy Share Image
In the end, oh I know, never, in my haggard passion, have I ever been such a cadaver as now as I… — Pier Paolo Pasolini Copy Share Image
I've had mentors who were kind of the troubadour singer-songwriters, like Merle Haggard, Loretta Lynn, Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan and Neil Young,… — Jewel Copy Share Image
You know, legends are people like Haggard and Jones and Wills and Sinatra. Those people are legends. I'm just a young buck… — George Strait Copy Share Image
...you think back to Tele players, and James Burton was the one who started it all. He inspired Roy Nichols (guitar for… — Brad Paisley Copy Share Image
But there's a thin line between songwriting and arranging. ... Recording at home enables one to eliminate the demo stage, and the… — Warren Zevon Copy Share Image
I'm a lover of old traditional country - George Jones, Merle Haggard, Tammy Wynette, Marty Roberts. — Johnny Van Zant Copy Share Image
8.45 a.m. My mother is in the hospital grounds smoking a cigarette. She is looking old and haggard. All the debauchery is… — Sue Townsend Copy Share Image
Laughter is very young, whereas tragedy, except the very highest of all, quickly becomes haggard. — Lady Margaret Sackville Copy Share Image
God bless Merle Haggard. He did all the things that Johnny Cash was supposed to have done. — Lewis Grizzard Copy Share Image
I listen more to music when I'm on my computer. I'm into the latest YouTube thing. I'm a nanosecond kind of listener,… — Jason McCoy Copy Share Image
The Bowery was a place that would let us do original songs - not just covers - but we would have to… — Randy Owen Copy Share Image
