A Quote by Phil Everly

I grew up as a Roy Rogers fan, of course.

Phil Everly

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Phil Everly
American - Musician
January 19, 1939 - January 3, 2014

Lee Ann Womack is from near where I grew up in East Texas, so I've always looked up to her. I sang a lot of Dolly Parton as a kid and a lot of traditional western swing, like Patsy Cline and Roy Rogers.

Kacey Musgraves

I grew up with the television product being old Western serials like Roy Rogers, and John Wayne and Gary Cooper, and many others were my favorites when I was a young person going to films.

Steve Kanaly

Gene Autry, Roy Rogers, Dale Evans - these people are giants, legends; their names are household words. Of course, so's Jell-O.

Norm Crosby

I grew up a huge Roy Orbison fan. He had such a crazy range. And I grew up listening to old jazz, Billie Holiday, Nina Simone. I remember trying to imitate female jazz singers because I had a higher range.

Borns

My childhood hero was Roy Rogers.

Keith Allen

I grew up being a Kobe fan, of course.

Brandon Ingram

Roy Rogers, Gene Autry, John Wayne - these men had the code of the West.

Chuck Norris

When I was a kid, we didn't have a TV until the late '50s, but I can remember watching Hopalong Cassidy, Roy Rogers, Steve McQueen, and 'Gunsmoke.'

Sam Shepard

Marlene Dietrich and Roy Rogers are the only two living humans who should be allowed to wear black leather pants.

Edith Head

I love a good Roy Rogers or Shirley Temple, and I had to give those up. And Philly cheesesteaks. I love Philly cheesesteaks, and now they really aren't around anymore.

Ron Funches

I grew up in central Illinois midway between Chicago and St. Louis and I made an historic blunder. All my friends became Cardinals fans and grew up happy and liberal and I became a Cubs fan and grew up embittered and conservative.