Top 19 Quotes & Sayings by David Allan Coe

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American musician David Allan Coe.
Last updated on November 8, 2024.
David Allan Coe

David Allan Coe is an American singer and songwriter. Coe took up music after spending much of his early life in reform schools and prisons, and first became notable for busking in Nashville. He initially played mostly in the blues style, before transitioning to country music, becoming a major part of the 1970s outlaw country scene. His biggest hits were "You Never Even Called Me by My Name", "Longhaired Redneck", "The Ride", "Mona Lisa Lost Her Smile", "She Used to Love Me a Lot", and most famously "If That Ain't Country".

All men are created equal, it is only men themselves who place themselves above equality.
I took the hardest possible route that you could take, and I still overcame and succeeded.
Anybody who goes searching can find enough artistic things I've done that nobody can ever say I sold out. — © David Allan Coe
Anybody who goes searching can find enough artistic things I've done that nobody can ever say I sold out.
Freedom cannot be given... It can only be taken away.
If there ever was a poet for the working class Billy Joe Shaver and Merle Haggard would be my nomination.
Teach my children to love! They'll learn to hate on their own.
I've written songs about things that nobody else has ever written about.
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.
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.
Everybody started saying, well, this cat's not as dumb as people think he is.
One thing is certain, You can't shake hands with a fist.
Marty Robbins once sang you give me a mountain, I've been given a few mountains in my life.
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.
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.
Teach my children to love! They'll learn to hate on their own
You don't have to call me 'Mister', Mister; The whole world called me 'Hank'!
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. — © David Allan Coe
My long hair just can't cover up my redneck.
If there ever was a poet for the working class Billy Joe Shaver and Merle Haggard would be my nomination
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