Like Quote by Hank Williams

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

— Hank Williams

It doesn't bother me to be called a 'hillbilly' because I lived in the hills. I grew up in the hills and the mountains…

— Paula Jean Swearengin

The four things a hillbilly singer needs are a Cadillac, a Nudie suit, the right hairdo, and a pair of pointy-toed boots.

— Marty Stuart

Doing a thing call the Hillbilly Rock, some say it came from Elvis down in Tennessee.

— Marty Stuart

“Within two generations, the transplanted hillbillies had largely caught up to the native population in terms of income and poverty level.”

— J.D. Vance

“To be a full-blooded hillbilly was to be a living koan. Half of you wanted to be dignified and half of you couldn’t tolerate…

— Carolyn Jourdan

“Back the, my life was mostly pieces-tire swings and lemonade, dogwood petals drifting down and going brown in the grass. Cotton dresses, bedsheets flapping…

— Brenna Yovanoff

Years and years ago, when I was a boy, when there were wolves in Wales, and birds the color of red-flannel petticoats whisked past…

— Dylan Thomas

When I'm rhyming it's all in my head... Like the slaves, when they were picking cotton, they would block out their minds. They would…

— Wyclef Jean

In the South of long ago whenever a new man appeared for work in any of the laborers gangs, he would be asked if…

— William Christopher Handy

“In the days when the spinning-wheels hummed busily in the farmhouses—and even great ladies, clothed in silk and thread-lace, had their toy spinning-wheels of…

— George Eliot

There are other singers of ranchera music who sing very beautifully, but you can tell from the way they sing that they never lived…

— Vicente Fernandez