Hank Quotes
75 quotes by 55 authors
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Jake La Botz is a creator of dark poetry and haunting song, the kind of music that gets in your bones and rides you for…
— Jerry Stahl
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Listen, the story of the United States is this: One kid, without anything, walks out of his house, down the road, with nothing but a…
— T Bone Burnett
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There was nothing ordinary about Hank Gathers. He was a walking thunderbolt.
— Paul Westhead
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I've written enough books with real celebrities, such as Walter Payton and Hank Aaron and Billy Graham, to know that fame looks good only to…
— Jerry B. Jenkins
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I'm friends with Hank Azaria. We were on a show together 800 years ago, and we laugh every single time.
— Nicole Sullivan
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When Hank Jones had his night off, I would get somebody to take my place as intermission pianist and I'd play the show with Ella,…
— George Shearing
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I played with Willie Mays and against Hank Aaron. They were tremendous players, but they were no Josh Gibson.
— Monte Irvin
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We were brought up in the school that teaches: You do what the script tells you. Deliver the goods without comment. Live it-do it-or shut…
— Katharine Hepburn
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My father had a varied ear, from Hank Williams to Ravel.
— Madeleine Peyroux
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I didn't get to meet Hank Williams. I was in the Air Force on Okinawa when he passed away.
— Mel Tillis
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My manager was Buddy Glee, who put me together with Mike Curb, and was basically the idea to bring some soul to the label and…
— Solomon Burke
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Old Hank would be proud, and Elvis would too, cause we like our country mixed with some big city blues.
— Hank Williams, Jr.
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I'd put Hank Williams picture on one hundred dollar bills.
— Hank Williams, Jr.
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Did ole Hank really do it this way?
— Waylon Jennings
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A Hank Cochran song in the studio is spiritual. It's like singing a hymn in a church.
— Jamey Johnson
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Hank Cochran was a man of very few words, but certainly the words that he chose were the right ones to use.
— Jamey Johnson
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A significant event for me was learning Hank Williams, reconnecting with his music's simplicity, which inspired me to inhabit the same territory. It's different, because…
— Stone Gossard
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I don't think you'd call me a traditionalist. But you can say I have an old soul, because I grew up listening to Conway Twitty…
— Scotty McCreery
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When I was very, very young, I decided that I was gonna catalogue my times because that's what other people who I admired did. That's…
— Bruce Springsteen
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There's no question that O.J. Simpson had been a substitute white man in America. He had gained honorary white status. He was not viewed by…
— Michael Eric Dyson
Who Wrote These Hank Quotes
55 authors contributed a total of 75 Hank Quotes, led by these top contributors: