Haggard Quotes

34 quotes by 31 authors

It is in these acts called trivialities that the seeds of joy are forever wasted, until men and women look round with haggard faces at… — George Eliot
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 the songs that… — Dolly Parton
But there's a thin line between songwriting and arranging. ... Recording at home enables one to eliminate the demo stage, and the presentation stage in… — Warren Zevon
O jealousy, Thou ugliest fiend of hell! thy deadly venom Preys on my vitals, turns the healthful hue Of my flesh check to haggard sallowness,… — Hannah More
Laughter is very young, whereas tragedy, except the very highest of all, quickly becomes haggard. — Lady Margaret Sackville
...you think back to Tele players, and James Burton was the one who started it all. He inspired Roy Nichols (guitar for Merle Haggard &… — Brad Paisley
I really like Alan Jackson, in Country Music. I think he's really very, very talented along with George Jones, and Merle Haggard, the same old… — Tanya Tucker
A public domain work is an orphan. No one is responsible for its life. But everyone exploits its use, until that time certain when it… — Jack Valenti
If there ever was a poet for the working class Billy Joe Shaver and Merle Haggard would be my nomination — David Allan Coe
I can't be gay! I'm a happily married conservative, just like Ted Haggard and Larry Craig. — Stephen Colbert
Acting might bring on emotional exhaustion, but writing tired your brains out. Writing led to depression and insomnia and walking around all day with a… — Richard Yates
I had always loved music. I grew up listening to classic country, Waylon Jennings, Merle Haggard. My dad loved Vern Gosdin and Keith Whitley. So… — Jake Owen
It's cool when your husband starts to sing some old Merle Haggard song and I can pop in with a harmony and it doesn't sound… — Trisha Yearwood
[W.H.R.] Rivers is the Rider Haggard of anthropology; I shall be the Conrad. — Bronislaw Malinowski
The Bowery was a place that would let us do original songs - not just covers - but we would have to work for tips,… — Randy Owen
I was mainly influenced by the Carter Family, Jimmie Rodgers, Loretta Lynn, Merle Haggard, and others like Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash. — Iris DeMent
Whene'er with haggard eyes I view This dungeon that I'm rotting in, I think of those companions true Who studied with me at the U-… — George Canning
May the merciful god, if indeed there be such, guard those hours when no power of the will, or drug that the cunning of man… — H P Lovecraft
In 1992 I was doing one of my first ever tours and I was in Heathrow airport and I saw these middle-aged musicians who had… — Moby
I've had mentors who were kind of the troubadour singer-songwriters, like Merle Haggard, Loretta Lynn, Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan and Neil Young, and that's just… — Jewel

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