Merle Haggard Quotes

God bless Merle Haggard. He did all the things that Johnny Cash was supposed to have done.

— Lewis Grizzard

And I think it's safe to say that the single very impressive figure to me was Merle Haggard.

— Warren Zevon

If there ever was a poet for the working class Billy Joe Shaver and Merle Haggard would be my nomination

— David Allan Coe

I'm a lover of old traditional country - George Jones, Merle Haggard, Tammy Wynette, Marty Roberts.

— Johnny Van Zant

Michael Rooker is like the Merle Haggard of the acting world. Never a dull moment.

— Chris Sullivan

“Memo to Merle Haggard: Miracles really do happen. I”

— Rachel Cohn

Willie Nelson, Marty Robbins, Merle Haggard and Keith Whitley - guys like that were huge influences.

— Sturgill Simpson

I listen to Lil Wayne, and then I listen to Merle Haggard.

— Tyler Farr

Some of my biggest commercial musical influences would be people like Merle Haggard, George Jones, of course, Johnny Cash. People that wrote…

— Jay DeMarcus

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

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

Merle Haggard once said, 'I'm really mad at Glen Campbell because he's the most talented human being in the world.' That kind…

— Marty Stuart

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

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

It's cool when your husband starts to sing some old Merle Haggard song and I can pop in with a harmony and…

— Trisha Yearwood

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

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

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

I just got into it like a lot of people through the rock 'n' roll bands in the late '60s that turned…

— Elvis Costello

“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

...you think back to Tele players, and James Burton was the one who started it all. He inspired Roy Nichols (guitar for…

— Brad Paisley

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

The Bowery was a place that would let us do original songs - not just covers - but we would have to…

— Randy Owen

I had always loved music. I grew up listening to classic country, Waylon Jennings, Merle Haggard. My dad loved Vern Gosdin and…

— Jake Owen

But there's a thin line between songwriting and arranging. ... Recording at home enables one to eliminate the demo stage, and the…

— Warren Zevon

“So, who are they really, these hundred thousand white supremacists? They're every white guy who believed that this land was his land,…

— Michael S. Kimmel

I was mainly influenced by the Carter Family, Jimmie Rodgers, Loretta Lynn, Merle Haggard, and others like Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash.

— Iris DeMent

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

I think my brand of country music is that's been influenced by not just the rough-stock rodeo side or Ted Nugent's "let's…

— Cody Johnson

I try to write like the writers I admire - I rip them off in form. It comes from George Strait and…

— Brad Paisley