God bless Merle Haggard. He did all the things that Johnny Cash was supposed to have done. — Lewis Grizzard Copy Share Image
Laughter is very young, whereas tragedy, except the very highest of all, quickly becomes haggard. — Lady Margaret Sackville Copy Share Image
And I think it's safe to say that the single very impressive figure to me was Merle Haggard. — Warren Zevon 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
Laughter is ever young, whereas tragedy, except the very highest of all, quickly becomes haggard. — Anonymous 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
[W.H.R.] Rivers is the Rider Haggard of anthropology; I shall be the Conrad. — Bronislaw Malinowski Copy Share Image
Acting might bring on emotional exhaustion, but writing tired your brains out. Writing led to depression and insomnia and walking around all… — Richard Yates Copy Share Image
I really like Alan Jackson, in Country Music. I think he's really very, very talented along with George Jones, and Merle Haggard,… — Tanya Tucker Copy Share Image
He looked haggard and careworn, like a Borgia who has suddenly remembered that he has forgotten to shove cyanide in the consommé,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My music comes from country music. Merle Haggard is God, and I do believe that. I'm not too tuned in to country… — Loudon Wainwright III Copy Share Image
In your walks about London you will sometimes see bent, haggard figures that look as if they had recently been caught in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Whene'er with haggard eyes I view This dungeon that I'm rotting in, I think of those companions true Who studied with me… — George Canning 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
Up from the dark the moon begins to creep; and now a pallid, haggard face lifts she above the water-line: thus from… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich Copy Share Image
If I'm listening to country, it's Hank Williams, George Jones, Merle Haggard and stuff like that. If people out there don't take… — Buzz Osborne 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
I just got into it like a lot of people through the rock 'n' roll bands in the late '60s that turned… — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
“I continued toward Atlanta with a Merle Haggard C.D. playing on the stereo. They weren't great hosts, but those guys in The… — Ian McClellan Copy Share Image
The records in the house I really remember were, well, Glen Campbell's 'Wichita Lineman' and 'Galveston.' Even as a kid, I knew… — Keith Urban 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
...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
May the merciful god, if indeed there be such, guard those hours when no power of the will, or drug that the… — H. P. Lovecraft 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
Will there never come a season Which shall rid us from the curse? Of a prose which knows no reason And an… — James Kenneth Stephen Copy Share Image
In 1992 I was doing one of my first ever tours and I was in Heathrow airport and I saw these middle-aged… — Moby 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
Willie Nelson, Marty Robbins, Merle Haggard and Keith Whitley - guys like that were huge influences. — Sturgill Simpson Copy Share Image
“By God!' he whispered, drawing his breath in sharply, 'it is all pure Rider Haggard and Conan Doyle.” — John Buchan Copy Share Image
Many people have compared me to the Victorian adventure writer, Rider Haggard. I accept that as a compliment. As a boy growing… — Anonymous 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
There's just enough drinking and cheating songs around without me adding to them. Unless you've got something better than "Misery and Gin"… — Aaron Watson 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
I read all of Rider Haggard's books. For me he had the romance of Africa with a little bit of mysticism. I'm… — Wilbur Smith Copy Share Image
“Now he seemed to be stranded for the rest of his life on a world unknown, more exotic than anywhere Haggard ever… — Dave Duncan 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
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
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