Calling Quote by Vera Lynn

My grandma would say if someone else calls you a hillbilly, you might need to punch them in the nose. But if we call…

— J. D. Vance

Americans call them hillbillies, rednecks, or white trash. I call them neighbors, friends, and family.

— J. D. Vance

“Grits Glossary hillbilly \’hil-,bi-lē\ n: a derogatory term that refers to people living in the next county or town; alternate forms include redneck, cracker,…

— Deborah Ford

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

— Marty Stuart

He never called me by my name, just hillbilly.

— Hank Williams Jr

When we first started recording, it was before rock, so people thought we were hillbilly hicks. That was something we had to deal with;…

— Phil Everly

“Nashville has always been competitive. My granddaddy called it the Hillbilly Babylon.”

— Hunter S. Jones

When I was born, my father named me Melissa, and I am still Melissa but I got the nickname Lizzo around the time I…

— Lizzo

With the Gap Band coming from Oklahoma, other artists would tease us by calling us cowboys. We didn't grow up on a ranch, but…

— Charlie Wilson

I came from Brooklyn. My nickname was Moochie.

— Jimmy Iovine

I wanted to use some kind of name so people would know where I was from. So I took the name "bluegrass." There is…

— Bill Monroe

Our name was Supman, and people always pronounced it Soupman or called me Soupbone. Kids had nicknames in those days like Slim or Tiny…

— Soupy Sales