Merle Haggard Quotes

Merle HaggardEverybody likes Johnny Cash. I think the sad part of it is his health is givin' him problems.

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• A house without love ain't a home.

  

  Merle Haggard
  • Love
  • House
  • For Her

• One of these days when the air clears up And the sun come shining through We'll all be drinking free bubble up And eating some rainbow stew.

  

  Merle Haggard
  • Up
  • Free
  • Air

• I think we have to have capital punishment, I think there has to be something to contain certain people. Those deterrents I think are necessary, especially in prison. You can threaten people for just so long, but they can flip you off and do what they want to; but not if they have to die. I hate it, though, the thought of the death penalty is terrible, but it's completely necessary.

  

  Merle Haggard
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Long

• I'm proud to be an Okie from Muskogee, A place where even squares can have a ball. We still wave Old Glory down at the courthouse, And white lightnin's still the biggest thrill of all.

  

  Merle Haggard
  • Proud

• I've always known that I was a gifted person. ... I've always felt like I would be punished, severely, if I didn't continue to make use of that gift. It's very important that you don't let the muscle get flabby. It's really hard, as an old human being, to press as much weight as you pressed when you were a kid.

  

  Merle Haggard
  • Important
  • Writing
  • Kids

• We're bar room buddies and we're the best kind, nobody messes with that friend of mine. Chug-a-lug-a-lug-a-lugga, bar room buddy of mine.

  

  Merle Haggard
  • Kind
  • Friendship
  • Rooms

• Today I started loving you again I'm right back where I've really always been; I got over you just long enough to let my heartache mend, Then today I started loving you again.

  

  Merle Haggard
  • Long
  • Today
  • Heartache

• In 1960, when I came out of prison as an ex-convict, I had more freedom under parolee supervision than there's available... in America right now.

  

  Merle Haggard
  • America
  • Available
  • Exes

• In my life there were a lot of situations where I could have been killed or some officer might have been killed chasing me, a lot of things could be different. Now, you know that's experience you can't buy. And it's there in my rearview mirror and I can refer to it in my writing. I have the experience to talk about things some people only imagine.

  

  Merle Haggard
  • People
  • Different
  • Writing

• There's two or three kids out there trying to make good music, and the rest of them sound like it's been strained through some kind of white toast or something. It all sounds just too neat and perfect, with no surprise to it at all. No story, no nothing. It's like building cars, like an assembly line. It doesn't sound like anything that came from a guitar.

  

  Merle Haggard
  • Trying
  • Kids
  • Perfect

• Momma tried to raise me better, but her pleading I denied, and that leaves only me to blame, cause Momma tried.

  

  Merle Haggard
  • Family
  • Causes
  • Blame

• There's one thing I never did do, and that was stink.

  

  Merle Haggard
  • Stink

• When the world wide war is over and done And the dream of peace comes through We'll all be drinking some free bubble up And eating some rainbow stew.

  

  Merle Haggard
  • Up
  • World
  • Done

• We don’t smoke marijuana in Muskogee We don’t take our trips on LSD We don’t burn our draft cards down on Main Street We like living right and being free.

  

  Merle Haggard
  • Free
  • Marijuana

• The thing that bothers me the most is the recklessness and greed of the local ranchers, who run too many cattle back here, choking with waste the creek that runs through my property. There's certain times of day that the cowboys like to send them turds down the river. Them f**kers piss me off. if you gotta mess up the ecology of the world in order to raise a bunch of cows, well eat somethin else. I'm not a fan of the cowboys.

  

  Merle Haggard
  • World
  • Running
  • Greed

• I enjoy the videos with the sound off, where you can look at the belly buttons and everything. Really some pretty girls, but I don't know about the music.

  

  Merle Haggard
  • Girl
  • Enjoy
  • Looks

• There's just a few people that call themselves stars can actually sit down with a guitar and sing you a song.

  

  Merle Haggard
  • People
  • Song
  • Stars

• And there's some Latino music I like, and some reggae music.

  

  Merle Haggard
  • Music
  • Latino
  • Reggae

• Keep your opinions to yourself. I think it's important that I stay neutral on politics and remain hard to understand. I don't want to be pigeonholed as conservative, liberal, independent or anything. I back the man for the things the man believes in, not whether it says "R" or "D" down there beside his name.

  

  Merle Haggard
  • Men
  • Thinking
  • Important

• There's been periods of broadcasts in the past where you could see all ages of entertainers, ranging from George Burns to Shirley Temple. That's not the condition now.

  

  Merle Haggard
  • Age
  • Past
  • Conditions

• It makes my wife mad, you know, she wants me to stay home all the time. But its what I've done all my life and I think when I quit doing it I'll probably go away pretty quick.

  

  Merle Haggard
  • Thinking
  • Home
  • Wife

• No, it's not love, but it's not bad.

  

  Merle Haggard
  • Love
  • Bad

• When you get to readin' about where the music and John Steinbeck and all those people like that come from, the further you go the more interesting it becomes.

  

  Merle Haggard
  • People
  • Interesting

• The only thing that I miss lately in all music is somebody that will put out a melody that you can whistle. It doesn't seem like there's anything happening like that.

  

  Merle Haggard
  • Music
  • Missing
  • Melody