I want to contribute to the music business and put something back into it so I'll be known as the man that was great for country music and a great entertainer. — Porter Wagoner Copy Share Image
I believe there is a different kind of beauty, the beauty of being honest, of being yourself, of singing it like you feel it. — Porter Wagoner Copy Share Image
Of course, Dolly started out basically on my television show. She just learned a lot when she was on my show the first seven… — Porter Wagoner Copy Share Image
Everywhere I go, people tell me they still love traditional country. — Porter Wagoner Copy Share Image
I never drank any in my life. Never have. Just never liked the taste of whiskey, and beer I don't care for at all. — Porter Wagoner Copy Share Image
When you get involved in litigation with attorneys, man, they drag you down in the mud. — Porter Wagoner Copy Share Image
Good country music is kind of like getting a straight, honest answer. — Porter Wagoner Copy Share Image
I've always been a team player, tried to make the show and the band - especially something that I was responsible for, like 'The… — Porter Wagoner Copy Share Image
Don't try to be something you're not, and find some great songs because there is still an interest. — Porter Wagoner Copy Share Image
I love to write but it lays real heavy on your mind. Because I'd have to get so involved in ideas, I'd get lost in them, you know... Whenever I wrote songs, a lot of the times I was in sort of a down mood, an off-time. But I did that to have a contrast, because you can't run wide… — Porter Wagoner Copy Share
You couldn't help but like James Brown if you came to see a show because he's such a wonderful showman. — Porter Wagoner Copy Share Image
