There's one thing I never did do, and that was stink.

Before the Beatles and yesterday, when a man could still work and still would.

I can't really say why everyone loves Bob Wills' music, but I have yet to meet a person who didn't like it.

In 1960, when I came out of prison as an ex-convict, I had more freedom under parolee supervision than there's available... in America right now.

We are under [government's] control, and if people don't realize that, they haven't looked around. And if they're not paranoid, they haven't thought about it.

Sometimes if you get 'em too drunk they don't pay no attention to what you're doin' anyways, so you might as well just do old songs. But if you get one that's paying attention, sometimes we'll do some new material.

Guitar playing is very important to me. It's like golf to some other people; it's important to me that I play good.