Top 121 Quotes & Sayings by Hank Williams III - Page 2

George Jones, Johnny Paycheck all them dudes they're respected and they were twice as crazy as I'll ever be.

The true Hank III fans want me to be me.

My relationship with my dad will always be strained, but that just goes to show, I guess, that I'm doin' a pretty good job of bein' myself, and bein' a rebel.

When I'm making a record, I'm trying to take people through different moods.

We definitely get respect as far as the musicianship, working hard and being road dogs.

It's a great feeling being with a label that respects what I do.

That's part of it: You can't be a country singer-songwriter if you've never had an official heartbreak.

My whole game plan, at first, was I wanted to rock out as hard as I could because usually you're old by the time you're 24.

I write a song for me and I sing a song for me - no one else.

I'm here to be lovesick, broke and drifting, writing heartache songs and singing about pain and misery and depression, with a few good times here and there.

Pop country is about being so clean and perfect and not having any rough edges or imperfections. It's all manufactured.

The only thing I got of my granddaddy's is a necktie.

We're bringing together the country folks and the rockers.

If I'm opening up for George Jones or playing a complete honky-tonk, I do true country music. But if it's a complete rock club, I'll do some country and a little bit of this hillbilly acoustic country metal or whatever it's called.

I want to be able to deliver the kind of show that I want - to go onstage with my chin held up.

I've got an addictive personality.

No other Hank Williams has ever screamed like I have. I guess that's my way of officially being me.

Most radio stations suck as far as playing heavy-metal.

I'm the kind of guy if you ask me a question I'll tell you the truth if it's hurting me or not. If it's good or bad, I'll cut to the chase and that's the way it is.

I could put in garage doors or work in McDonald's but that's it. So I figured I might as well play the Nashville game.

We're kind of like the Kurt Cobain of country music in a way.

There's only one Hank Williams, man. Singing that high-voiced style, them bluegrassers, I don't see how they do it - Jimmy Martin, Bill Monroe - it's just a natural thing, man.

The folks at Curb Records didn't have respect for me and I was there for 15 years.

I'm just gonna keep doing what I do, and hopefully not make too many people mad.

It's right there on my birth certificate, 'Shelton Hank Williams III.' It's not fake.

I was always a Pink Floyd fan, and I was always into movie soundtracks.

I don't like to tell people what they should or shouldn't do.

Everything is not perfect in our world.

In country, you can grow old with your fans. You can still do shows when you're 70.

I've always said I'm gonna work the road as hard as I can 'til I'm 50, then I might slow down a little bit.

You can only be creative so long and then you're just down and out and completely destroyed.

I chose taking the hard road and creating my own niche and getting my own fan base.

I can't really change Nashville.

I could have took the easy way and just been a cowboy, looking good, trying to make my money off Hank Williams and being this clean-cut guy. But I always wanted to be myself and go against the grain.

All through the 'Guttertown' record, there's happy, there's sad, there's strange - and I'm painting that picture.

I would definitely pick Flint over Detroit any day.

If Hank Williams had lived any longer, his name would have been one of the most hated in the land. Nashville would have dug him deep.

I'm a very respectful person.

This is just what I do, play music and create sounds and all that good stuff.

I'm not just a country artist. I've got so any sides to me and the music I write.

The best pay off in the world is when someone comes up to you and says, 'your music has helped me with some pretty rough times through life. I don't know if I would still be here if it was for your music whether it be country music or heavy metal has done for me.' That's ultimately the biggest payoff for me. I hear it from young kids to military guys and military women to older folks.

In a way, being raised on the farm and doing chores and stuff it's a natural thing for me to want to work outside. It's almost kind of like a rehabilitation for me with doing that.

The vocals are the very last thing I do. So, it's kinda the opposite: with country. it's singing and guitar first, but with rock, I worry about the riff and music, vocals last.

I've never gone to school for recording. I wish I understood it more. School's been hard, learning things has been hard, because of the A.D.H.D., or dyslexia, or whatever you want to call it, but I know how to come up with stuff to bring it together.

The name alone usually attracts about 50 or so curiosity seekers to the show. We know if we're playing the Policeman's Ball or something to have the proper respect, but we like to get rowdy.

I always wanted to have my own farm. I've never been able to achieve that. It's kinda tough.

It's a lot harder to keep your cool than it is to lose it. That's on any work ethic. Even if you're a big producer on a movie set, or whatever, it's a lot harder to be a pro than be a baby on your crew. That's one work ethic to keep in mind, as one bad apple could give five people a bad day, when that one person could've stepped up their own efforts a little more and not bring anyone else down.

My mom nor my father never pushed me into the music business. I always did it because I wanted to.

And I flirted with the devil and he dealt me a card. He told me that you will never win. So I sold my soul to the devil. I never thought it could be this bad. And I got the devil takin' me away

One of the reasons I sing so much about smoking or drinking isn't about the addiction, but more so that I'm trying to let people have a good time at my shows and forget their problems. Relax and enjoy. There's not certain religions or politics sold on them. Just come out, have a beer, have a laugh, good energy from stage and have a good time.

I've never left for New York. I've stood my ground here my whole career and hopefully will be able to until the day that I die.

If I'm playing country, I gotta have my country hat and my cowboy boots. I gotta have a voice, and the third thing, I gotta have I guess a little music to keep me in the right mind, a little pre-show something to get ya going. Lots of AC/DC, or I'll sit on youtube and find all kinds of stuff before we take the stage to get pumped up.

I would have to go back to being a dog. I've called myself a dog for many years.

I have a love of gear and pedals, from old pedals to new ones with new sounds. If I get depressed, I start looking for a certain type of pedal, learn the history, who and what it was made for, that kinda thing.

Maybe one day the old guys will die off and things will change, 'cuz it's officially getting scary over here in America.

Balance is always tough with the kind of shows and my work ethic and all of that, but that definitely helps me do what I do in the big picture.

Every year is different. I'm not getting any younger trying to keep it going. It's always a challenge. It's like a boxer going into a ring. You never can tell what's going to work and what's not going to work until you're in action and everything is going on around you. It's very intense and always a challenge and always a thrill.

A one-night stand that waited three years to tell me I had a son. I needed cash flow fast, It was time to get into the business.

Not everybody is going to like what I do or get what I do. With as much positive, you always get the negative to deal with. I get that as well. Most of the time, I'm very honored to have a fan base that they react to my songs. My songs speak to a lot of them.

Animals have always been therapeutic for me to work with; they help me get me grounded from being on the road.