David Allan Coe Quotes

If there ever was a poet for the working class Billy Joe Shaver and Merle Haggard would be my nomination

Anybody who goes searching can find enough artistic things I've done that nobody can ever say I sold out.

It is not the beauty of a building you should look at; its the construction of the foundation that will stand the test of time.

Marty Robbins once sang you give me a mountain, I've been given a few mountains in my life

My long hair just can't cover up my redneck.

One thing is certain, You can't shake hands with a fist.

The Beatles were just the beginning of everything music could be, just like the Stones I was Rolling along like a ship lost out on the sea.

I took the hardest possible route that you could take, and I still overcame and succeeded.

Freedom cannot be given... It can only be taken away.

Teach my children to love! They'll learn to hate on their own

All men are created equal, it is only men themselves who place themselves above equality.

Now I lay me down to cheat on the woman I love so, and if I die between these sheets I pray to God she'll never know.

I've never wanted anybody to like me because I had long hair or short hair, or that they liked the way I dressed or they liked the way I dressed or they liked the way I smile.

I've written songs about things that nobody else has ever written about.