Top 784 Hank Williams Quotes & Sayings

The road has taken a lot of the great ones: Hank Williams, Buddy Holly, Otis Redding, Janis, Jimi Hendrix, Elvis.

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

If Hank Williams Jr. wasn't such a pathetic, wheezing fossil, I'd have a talk with him.

I grew up in Arizona listening to Hank Williams Jr., Johnny Cash, Tammy Wynette, and Dolly Parton.

There was something about Hank Williams, Jr. that I really latched onto from an early age.

I love Hank Williams. Who doesn't love Hank Williams? So my choices are not that surprising.

Hank Williams was one of the greatest writers of all time, and it's very sad that his career lasted for only six years.

I'd put Hank Williams picture on one hundred dollar bills.

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.

Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Merle Haggard, Hank Williams. All of them are different styles, but those are the songs that make the times. They're the songs that last through time.

I loved Western Swing and Hank Williams' music, and I now know that it's a 6th tuning that gives you all of those classic licks.

To me, Hank Williams is the first rock-and-roll star.

With Del Shannon - and I've got to tell you this - there's nobody probably on the face of the earth that I identified more with musically. We used to sit and sing George Jones and Hank Williams tunes.

The Hank Williams Syndrome: Come to Nashville, write some good songs, cut some hit records, make money, take all the drugs you can and drink all you can, become a wild man and all of a sudden die.

I listen to some Hank Williams before I go out. I tell some jokes. I have fun. I don't waste too much energy thinking about it - I like to save that all for the ring.

Oh, I think country has changed tremendously. I think country has totally changed. Country music when I was a kid was Hank Williams. If you put Hank and Elvis together, there wasn't that musical difference. But as the Beatles showed up and the English invasion, I think country music got pretty far away from rock n' roll.

I love Hank Williams, he's the original emo kid. Some of his lyrics remind me of, like, Promise Ring lyrics.

I'm a product of my surroundings. I grew up on Hank Williams Jr., Johnny Cash, Jerry Reed, and also Run-D.M.C., the Beastie Boys, the Fat Boys, and Biz Markie.

I liked Western country, like cowboy songs, when I was a little kid. Then I developed a taste for Hank Williams and those sort of songs as I got a little bit older.

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

I grew up listening to Hank Williams and Johnny Cash, so arriving in Nashville in the '60s was really exciting for me.

Hank Williams was playing rock-n-roll before rock-n-roll was.

I started writing songs after I heard Hank Williams.

Well, it's hard not to love Hank Williams!

Each Hank Williams has always had an independent streak.

Favorite country singer of all time... Hank Williams... Well, then there's Willie Nelson. Can I have three? I can't do one. Then if I have three, I'll need five. Hank Williams for sure. Willie Nelson. Johnny Cash and Waylon Jennings.

When I pick up Hank Williams' guitar or that first suit that Johnny Cash wore on stage, it empowers me.

I didn't get to meet Hank Williams. I was in the Air Force on Okinawa when he passed away.

The day I heard Hank Williams for the first time, my life changed.

I always wanted a guitar. I always wanted to be a cowboy singer because I also listened to Hank Williams, and he would always sing these neat romantic songs.

Country music is full of affairs and cheating; that's where all those Hank Williams songs come from.

One night I was sitting listening to some Hank Williams songs - and they'll change your life in a hurry.

I wouldn't want to cover a Hank Williams song in a country-western way. It doesn't occur to me instinctually to re-create productions. I'm interested in re-creating songs. Putting different clothes on them.

I grew up listening to my mother's collection of Hank Williams, George Jones and Marty Robbins records.

I got Jimmy Hall from Wet Willie and he also plays now with Hank Williams Jr.

A lot of my friends, they think I grew up to rock and roll, but I didn't. I grew up to Hank Williams, Jimmy Reid, Howlin' Wolf, listening to a race record, blues.

'Neil Young Heart of Gold', that was a valentine to Nashville and country music in the Grand Ole Opry tradition and Hank Williams.

I don't think you'd call me a traditionalist. But you can say I have an old soul, because I grew up listening to Conway Twitty and Hank Williams.

Everything about Hank Williams interests me. His music, his life. His death. His impact.

I love Hank Williams songs, but I love hearing Ray Charles sing them much more.

If Ford is to Chevrolet what Dodge is to Chrysler, what Corn Flakes are to Post Toasties, what the clear blue sky is to the deep blue sea, what Hank Williams is to Neil Armstrong - can you doubt we were made for each other?

My manager was Buddy Glee, who put me together with Mike Curb, and was basically the idea to bring some soul to the label and bring something different to the label besides the Hank Williams situation.

My parents listened to the Outlaws when I was a kid and I just had no interest in it. But my boyfriend at the time listened to Hank Williams III, and I thought that was really cool because he was singing about whatever he wanted to but it was very country.

Hank Williams, Hank Jr. and myself, if you check your history, you'll see that they've always played in rowdy environments. Part of that is a lot of people are coming to forget their problems and not being told what to do for a couple of hours and not try to have anything sold to them or pushed on them.

I'll never outdo Hank Williams. That's impossible.

My father had a varied ear, from Hank Williams to Ravel.

My form of rebellion was starting to play guitar. I was 13. The first song I played was 'Lovesick Blues' by Hank Williams.

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 turned 30 as a janitor. I was thinking at the time that Hank Williams died when he was 29. All my peers were at least 10 years younger than I was. I felt like an old has-been at the time.

Hank Williams' music - it just doesn't go away, for some reason.

If I'm listening to country, it's Hank Williams, George Jones, Merle Haggard and stuff like that. If people out there don't take that stuff seriously, well, they just haven't listened to it and don't know what they're talking about.

In reality, I never even got to have a Hank Williams instrument. I got a tie, a fishing lure and a check.

If you look at how much Hank Williams did by 29 years old, it makes you feel pretty worthless.

I always think Hank Williams knew that he was going to die young, and that's why he did that much work.

I believe Dad will be respected in 300 years, like Beethoven. As will Elvis, as will the Carter Family, as will Jimmie Rodgers, Hank Williams.

My country stuff, it might sound like Hank Williams - that's just the way it is. But I'd rather sound like Hank Williams than Trace Atkins.

By the age of 15, I knew over 40 Hank Williams songs.

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.

We've done shows with Tim McGraw, Hank Williams Jr., Montgomery Gentry, Shooter Jennings.

I listen to the radio and I like all kinds of music, you know, but I like to hear from people who have been there. Hank Williams has been there.