Hank Williams

I don't know one note from another.

— 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…

— Hank Williams

I think I'm good enough to play and sing.

— Hank Williams

I have been living in Montgomery so long that I call it home.

— Hank Williams

Man, it's hell to have a wife who thinks she can sing, and she can't.

— Hank Williams

To sing like a hillbilly, you had to have lived like a hillbilly. You had to have smelt a lot of mule…

— 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…

— 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…

— Hank Williams

You got to have smelt a lot of mule manure before you can sing like a hillbilly.

— 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.

— 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…

— 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…

— Hank Williams

The way I feel is that if you don't like folk music, stay away from my shows.

— Hank Williams

If anybody in my business knew as much about their business as the public did, they'd be all right!

— Hank Williams

If you think I'm a drunk, you shoulda seen my old man.

— Hank Williams

“I ain't gonna worry wrinkles in my brow, cuz nothin's never gonna be alright nohow. No matter how I struggle and strive,…

— Hank Williams

I was a pretty good imitator of Roy Acuff, but then I found out they already had a Roy Acuff, so I…

— Hank Williams

You booked him, and you didn't worry about crowds. For drawing power in the South, it was Roy Acuff, then God.

— Hank Williams

My mother played the organ in church at Georgiana, and I sat on the seat beside her.

— Hank Williams

I wish I was back at WSFA making twelve dollars a week. At least then, if someone come to see me, I'd…

— Hank Williams

I have noticed that these pop bands will play our hillbilly songs when they cain't eat any other way!

— Hank Williams

In this business, if you're a success, there's some folks who actually worship you. I have been to some places where it's…

— Hank Williams

There ain't a man livin' who hasn't talked to his dog.

— Hank Williams

“Don't take life TOO serious you can't get out alive anyhow.”

— Hank Williams

If you're gonna sing, sing 'em something they can understand.

— Hank Williams