There, gleaming in the glow, was that ten-horsepower rotary engine under a seat. A key glistening in the ignition. I imagine the top speed for that old mower was five miles per hour. It might have taken an hour and a half or more for me to get to the liquor store, but get there I did.

A new artist today has to get their teeth fixed, has to tighten their jeans up, and they have to get 'em the right kind of hat, and if anything's wrong with their nose, if it's a little crooked, it's got to be straightened up.

There's nothing prettier in the world than a melody. I can get lost in a song with a melody.

If people liked your singing well enough, if you were special to them, then you never left their minds throughout all of the years.

No matter what song I recorded or sang, I did it my way.

The only thing different between sinners and saints is one is forgiven and the other ain't.

All Patsy Cline had to do was sing somebody else’s song and her version would outsell theirs because it would be so good!