Top 11 Quotes & Sayings by Roy Acuff

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Last updated on November 8, 2024.

Roy Claxton Acuff was an American country music singer, fiddler, and promoter. Known as the "King of Country Music", Acuff is often credited with moving the genre from its early string band and "hoedown" format to the singer-based format that helped make it internationally successful. In 1952, Hank Williams told Ralph Gleason, "He's the biggest singer this music ever knew. You booked him and you didn't worry about crowds. For drawing power in the South, it was Roy Acuff, then God."

American - Musician | September 15, 1903 - November 23, 1992

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I've done a whole lot of things. I've had the pleasure of introducing two presidents, several senators and congressmen.

Roy Acuff

Put your trust in the Lord and go ahead. Worry gets you no place.

Roy Acuff

Television made a lot of difference in country music. It's progress. I believe in progress.

Roy Acuff

I'd like to be remembered as a man who went to Heaven and not another place.

Roy Acuff

The greatest thing the Democrats have ever done for me was to defeat me for the governor of Tennessee.

Roy Acuff

Don't be a blueprint. Be an original.

Roy Acuff

I don't owe one man one cent. Anywhere.

Roy Acuff

You've got to capture an audience. You don't go out there and just sing, or just play. If you can't capture an audience, you might as well not be out there.

Roy Acuff

My health is good; it's my age that's bad.

Roy Acuff

I'm just another Opry entertainer. I'm not the start of the Opry, and I'm not the ending. I'm not the Alpha, and I'm not the Omega. It's been a pleasure taking part in the Opry and country music these many years. I'm part of a big operation.

Roy Acuff

Any game you play, you got to lose sometime.

Roy Acuff

Top 11 Quotes & Sayings by Roy Acuff

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