Top 25 Quotes & Sayings by Hank Williams

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Last updated on April 21, 2025.

Hiram "Hank" Williams was an American singer, songwriter, and musician. Regarded as one of the most significant and influential American singers and songwriters of the 20th century, he recorded 55 singles that reached the top 10 of the Billboard Country & Western Best Sellers chart, including 12 that reached No. 1.

American - Musician | September 17, 1923 - January 1, 1953

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I have been living in Montgomery so long that I call it home.

Hank Williams

If you're gonna sing, sing 'em something they can understand.

Hank Williams

I learned to play the git-tar from an old colored man in the streets of Montgomery. He was named Tetot, and he played in a colored street band.

Hank Williams

I've just signed a contract to make records in Nashville. It won't amount to much at first, but after a year or so, I will really be in the money.

Hank Williams

To sing like a hillbilly, you had to have lived like a hillbilly. You had to have smelt a lot of mule manure.

Hank Williams

There ain't nobody I'd rather have alongside me in a fight than my mama with a broken bottle in her hand.

Hank Williams

I think I'm good enough to play and sing.

Hank Williams

I was a pretty good imitator of Roy Acuff, but then I found out they already had a Roy Acuff, so I started singin' like myself.

Hank Williams

My mother played the organ in church at Georgiana, and I sat on the seat beside her.

Hank Williams

You booked him, and you didn't worry about crowds. For drawing power in the South, it was Roy Acuff, then God.

Hank Williams

The way I feel is that if you don't like folk music, stay away from my shows.

Hank Williams

I don't know one note from another.

Hank Williams

Folk songs express the dreams and prayers and hopes of the working people.

Hank Williams

You got to have smelt a lot of mule manure before you can sing like a hillbilly.

Hank Williams

I have noticed that these pop bands will play our hillbilly songs when they cain't eat any other way!

Hank Williams

If anybody in my business knew as much about their business as the public did, they'd be all right!

Hank Williams

I wish I was back at WSFA making twelve dollars a week. At least then, if someone come to see me, I'd know they were coming to see me. Now I reckon they just want something from me.

Hank Williams

It makes me mad to hear these popular orchestras make a jammed-up comedy of a song like 'Wreck on the Highway.' It ain't a funny song.

Hank Williams

If you think I'm a drunk, you shoulda seen my old man.

Hank Williams

There ain't a man livin' who hasn't talked to his dog.

Hank Williams

I'm nothing but a drunkard. Why do people expect me to be anything else?

Hank Williams

In this business, if you're a success, there's some folks who actually worship you. I have been to some places where it's impossible to walk across the stage without having the major portion of my outfit torn off for souvenirs.

Hank Williams

Somebody got the idea nobody didn't listen to my kind 'a music. I told everybody on the radio that this was my last program. 'If anybody's enjoyed it,' I said, 'I'd like to hear from 'em.' I got 400 cards and letters that afternoon and the next mornin'... They decided they wanted to keep my kind of music.

Hank Williams

Man, it's hell to have a wife who thinks she can sing, and she can't.

Hank Williams

Personally, I cain't stand classical stuff, but I don't tell the world about it. I just turn the radio off. Now, why cain't these folks who don't like my kind of music do the same?

Hank Williams

Top 25 Quotes & Sayings by Hank Williams

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