Top 19 Quotes & Sayings by David Allan Coe

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American musician David Allan Coe.

Last updated on December 21, 2024.

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".

American - Musician | Born: September 6, 1939

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

David Allan Coe

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

David Allan Coe

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

David Allan Coe

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

David Allan Coe

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

David Allan Coe

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

David Allan Coe

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

David Allan Coe

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.

David Allan Coe

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.

David Allan Coe

Everybody started saying, well, this cat's not as dumb as people think he is.

David Allan Coe

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

David Allan Coe

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

David Allan Coe

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.

David Allan Coe

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.

David Allan Coe

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