Birmingham Quote by Don Helms

“My Mind” and the country music I’d so long ignored. Hank”

— Bruce Springsteen

In retrospect Hank I don't know why I spent four years writing this book when I could have just made a hit sing-a-ma-jig album.

— John Green

Country music is full of affairs and cheating; that's where all those Hank Williams songs come from.

— Robert Hilburn

I thought, when I came to Nashville, I was going to hook up with some of the top country writers in town and write…

— Chris Carmack

The last song I recorded with [Hank Williams, Sr.] was "I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive." I remember thinking, "Hoss, you're not…

— Chet Atkins

“Do the thing you love to do. Hank Williams died at the ripe old age of twentynine. Stevie Ray Vaughan at thirty-five. Jesus at…

— Jill S. Alexander

I fell in love with Nashville and wrote with some of the best songwriters here.

— Brooke Hogan

Back in the early '90s, I started going to Nashville to do a lot of co-writes. One of the first people I met there…

— John Oates

“Henry unpacked the car and loaded himself up with everything they'd brought, little bags and big ones, a string tote, a knapsack. As he…

— Melissa Bank

Hank Williams seemed, like, so total to me, so committed to the lyric. He would actually rip the ends of the words off at…

— Dion DiMucci

I recorded with Hank (Jones) a number of times, usually on dates where Milt was unavailable, and I thought he was the perfect pianist.…

— Bill Crow

I grew up listening to Hank Williams and Johnny Cash, so arriving in Nashville in the '60s was really exciting for me.

— Kris Kristofferson