Merle Quotes
20 quotes by 18 authors
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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
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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
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In the 80s, in the cover band I was in, we'd slip in original material. If you didn't say anything about it, people just didn't…
— Andy Wilkinson
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...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
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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
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If there ever was a poet for the working class Billy Joe Shaver and Merle Haggard would be my nomination
— David Allan Coe
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I went to Brooklyn College and met this beautiful Jewish girl named Merle, with dark hair, exotic looking and brilliant. So we got married and…
— Dominic Chianese
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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
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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
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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
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I was mainly influenced by the Carter Family, Jimmie Rodgers, Loretta Lynn, Merle Haggard, and others like Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash.
— Iris DeMent
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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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And I think it's safe to say that the single very impressive figure to me was Merle Haggard.
— Warren Zevon
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When I left Merle was wearing a bungalow apron and rolling pie crust. She came to the door wiping her hands on the apron and…
— Raymond Chandler
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Backstage at the Grand Ole Opry, I got on my knees and told her that I was going to marry her some day. We were…
— Johnny Cash
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I listen to Lil Wayne, and then I listen to Merle Haggard.
— Tyler Farr
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My all-time favorite rock and roll players were Scotty Moore, Chuck Berry and Franny Beecher, and I listened to the country playing of Merle Travis.
— Alvin Lee
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Ain't afraid to eat fried chicken and dirty dance to Merle.
— Gretchen Wilson
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Its hard to look good if you spent most of your life acting ugly!
— Merle Rutledge Jr
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We can get what they are willing to give you or you can take back what they have been keeping from you. The choice is…
— Merle Rutledge Jr
Who Wrote These Merle Quotes
18 authors contributed a total of 20 Merle Quotes as follows: