Hank Williams Quotes
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Used as "No matter how you struggle and strive, you never get out of this world alive" on the Babyshambles music-video for the single "The Blinding".
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There was a time when I believed that you belonged to me but now I know your heart is shackled to a memory The more I learn to care for you, the more we drift apart Why can't I free your doubtful mind and melt your cold cold heart.
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I ain't gonna worry wrinkles in my brow,Cuz nothin's never gonna be alright nohow. No matter how I struggle and strive,I'll never get out of this world alive.
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You wore out a brand new trunk, packin' and unpackin your junk.
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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.
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Everybody's lonesome for somebody else but nobody's lonesome for me. Everybody's thinking about somebody else but nobody thinks about me. When the time rolls around for me to lay down and die. I bet I'll have to go and hire me someone to cry. Everybody's lonesome for somebody else. Nobody is lonesome for me.
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My son calls another man daddy He'll never know my name nor my face God only knows how it hurts me for another to be in my place
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"Thank you for all the love you gave me. There could be no one stronger. Thank you for the many beautiful songs. They will live long and longer."
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We make our own whiskey and our own smoke, too. Ain't too many things these ole boys can't do.
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If a song can't be written in 20 minutes, it ain't worth writing.
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We'll put aside a little time to fix a flat or 2, my tires and tubes are doing fine but the air is showing through.
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We've all kinds of kinds of hells and damns in country. But we don't have that other. We haven't progressed that far yet or degenerated. Who knows? . . . There are a few that are trying it. It's true. Some of these guys say it 500 times. I said (to Kid Rock), "how many times do you say it on an album -- 500 times? He just has that little grin.
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You got to have smelt a lot of mule manure before you can sing like a hillbilly.
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Your cheatin' heart, will make you weep. You'll cry and cry, and try to sleep. But sleep won't come, the whole night through. Your cheatin' heart, will tell on you.
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"I've been around a long time, and life still has a whole lot of surprises for me."
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I think the building is in very good condition.
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My daddy, he was somewhere between God and John Wayne.
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Well when I woke up this morning,There was a note upon my door, Said don't make me no coffee Babe,'Cause I won't be back no more, And that's all she wrote, Dear John, I've sent your saddle home.
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Killed by a man with a switch blade knife, for 43 dollars my friend lost his life.
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No matter how I struggle and strive, I'll never get out of this world alive.
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I don't know what you mean by country music. I just make music the way I know how.
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A good song is a good song, and if I'm lucky enough to write it, well....! I get more kick out of writing than I do singing. I reckon I've written a thousand songs and had over 300 published.
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I'd love to spit some Beechnut in that dude's eye and shoot him with my ole forty-five.
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She had to get up today to check her cell phone messages and to critique the photos they were using of her in the newspapers.