There's two or three kids out there trying to make good music, and the rest of them sound like it's been strained through some kind of white toast or something. It all sounds just too neat and perfect, with no surprise to it at all. No story, no nothing. It's like building cars, like an assembly line. It doesn't sound like anything that came from a guitar.
Merle HaggardFaith is the only way we're going to make it. None of us are smart enough to do it on our own.
Merle HaggardBack when the country was strong, back before Elvis and before the Vietnam war came along.
Merle Haggard