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title: "3 Hillbilly Quotes By Hank Williams"
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> [To sing like a hillbilly, you had to have lived like a hillbilly. You had to have smelt a lot of mule…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hank-williams/to-sing-like-a-hillbilly-you-had-to-have-lived-like-a-hillbilly-you/)

[Hank Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hank-williams/)

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> [You got to have smelt a lot of mule manure before you can sing like a hillbilly.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hank-williams/you-got-to-have-smelt-a-lot-of-mule-manure-before-you-can-sing-like-a/)

[Hank Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hank-williams/)

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> [I have noticed that these pop bands will play our hillbilly songs when they cain't eat any other way!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hank-williams/i-have-noticed-that-these-pop-bands-will-play-our-hillbilly-songs/)

[Hank Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hank-williams/)

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## Other authors on Hillbilly

## More by Hank Williams

> [I don't know one note from another.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hank-williams/i-don-t-know-one-note-from-another/)

[Hank Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hank-williams/)

> [I learned to play the git-tar from an old colored man in the streets of Montgomery. He was named Tetot, and he played in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hank-williams/i-learned-to-play-the-git-tar-from-an-old-colored-man-in-the-streets/)

[Hank Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hank-williams/)

> [I think I'm good enough to play and sing.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hank-williams/i-think-i-m-good-enough-to-play-and-sing/)

[Hank Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hank-williams/)

> [I have been living in Montgomery so long that I call it home.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hank-williams/i-have-been-living-in-montgomery-so-long-that-i-call-it-home/)

[Hank Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hank-williams/)

> [Man, it's hell to have a wife who thinks she can sing, and she can't.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hank-williams/man-it-s-hell-to-have-a-wife-who-thinks-she-can-sing-and-she-can-t/)

[Hank Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hank-williams/)

> [To sing like a hillbilly, you had to have lived like a hillbilly. You had to have smelt a lot of mule manure.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hank-williams/to-sing-like-a-hillbilly-you-had-to-have-lived-like-a-hillbilly-you/)

[Hank Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hank-williams/)

> [Somebody got the idea nobody didn't listen to my kind 'a music. I told everybody on the radio that this was my last program.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hank-williams/somebody-got-the-idea-nobody-didn-t-listen-to-my-kind-a-music-i-told/)

[Hank Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hank-williams/)

> [Personally, I cain't stand classical stuff, but I don't tell the world about it. I just turn the radio off. Now, why cain't these…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hank-williams/personally-i-cain-t-stand-classical-stuff-but-i-don-t-tell-the-world/)

[Hank Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hank-williams/)

> [You got to have smelt a lot of mule manure before you can sing like a hillbilly.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hank-williams/you-got-to-have-smelt-a-lot-of-mule-manure-before-you-can-sing-like-a/)

[Hank Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hank-williams/)

> [There ain't nobody I'd rather have alongside me in a fight than my mama with a broken bottle in her hand.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hank-williams/there-ain-t-nobody-i-d-rather-have-alongside-me-in-a-fight-than-my/)

[Hank Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hank-williams/)

> [I've just signed a contract to make records in Nashville. It won't amount to much at first, but after a year or so, I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hank-williams/i-ve-just-signed-a-contract-to-make-records-in-nashville-it-won-t/)

[Hank Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hank-williams/)

> [It makes me mad to hear these popular orchestras make a jammed-up comedy of a song like 'Wreck on the Highway.' It ain't a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hank-williams/it-makes-me-mad-to-hear-these-popular-orchestras-make-a-jammed-up/)

[Hank Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hank-williams/)

> [The way I feel is that if you don't like folk music, stay away from my shows.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hank-williams/the-way-i-feel-is-that-if-you-don-t-like-folk-music-stay-away-from-my/)

[Hank Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hank-williams/)

> [If anybody in my business knew as much about their business as the public did, they'd be all right!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hank-williams/if-anybody-in-my-business-knew-as-much-about-their-business-as-the/)

[Hank Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hank-williams/)

> [If you think I'm a drunk, you shoulda seen my old man.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hank-williams/if-you-think-i-m-a-drunk-you-shoulda-seen-my-old-man/)

[Hank Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hank-williams/)

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