Merle Haggard Quotes

To be part of what you're singing about is somewhat painful. You've got to climb inside it all.

Merle Haggard

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• Singing
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• The safest and most suitable form of penance seems to be that which causes pain in the flesh but does not penetrate to the bones, that is, which causes suffering but not sickness.

  

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• We have lost a lot of ground to the extremists in the Middle East.

  

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• 'From Here to Eternity' happens to be fourteen-carat entertainment. The main trouble is that it is too entertaining for a film in which love affairs flounder, one sweet guy is beaten to death, and a man of high principles is mistaken for a saboteur and killed on a golf course.

  

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• Can ye fathom the ocean, dark and deep, where the mighty waves and the grandeur sweep?

  

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• I think that a good mountaineer is usually a sensible mountaineer.

  

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• You talk all the time about being connected, being a unit, believing in each other. But if you have unnamed sources, people out there cutting you down, and then you find out it's the person calling the plays - that would be really hard to deal with, to look at him the same way.

  

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• You see that even the enemy did not dare to declare war against us till they had seized our generals, for they were sensible that, while we had commanders and yielded obedience to them, we were able to conquer them; but, having seized our commanders, they concluded that we should, from a want of command and discipline, be destroyed.

  

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• You have already disarmed my men without my knowledge, are their arms to be returned or not?

  

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• I've always looked upon the Ducks as caricature human beings. Perhaps I've been years writing in that middle world that J.R.R. Tolkien describes, and never knew it.

  

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• I've always wanted to go to college - I don't know what college - just to explore the world. I want to learn languages - many, multiple languages. And I love to help people, so I think it would be fun to do some nonprofit work.

  

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• History teaches, but it has no pupils.

  

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• My entrance to music was singing gospel in church, and to hear that gospel language in a hip-hop song was cool.

  

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• We have been taught to regard a representative of the people as a sentinel on the watch-tower of liberty.

  

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• By law, super PACs are required to disclose their donors. There are groups that have never had to disclose their donors, non-profits such as the Sierra Club, Planned Parenthood, the NAACP, and the NRA. If you want more disclosure, super PACs are a step forward.

  

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• This is a form of double taxation and it's simply unfair.

  

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• Women put ourselves through so much. Really, everybody does; it's not a gendered thing. I think all of us are always gonna be tortured by some sense of inadequacy, no matter what. I don't know if there's a way to tell people not do this to themselves.

  

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• That's always attractive to me, to work with music whose form is a big question mark. Even many of my favorite bands growing up, when I was just a kid learning to play drums and guitar and everything, were bands like Pink Floyd, where the arrangement, the number of bars in each section is unconventional and often lopsided, and there will be small little instrumental interludes and that sort of thing. So those odd forms, as well as dark content, are the things that I think are continuous through all the type of projects that I've been attracted to.

  

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• To be part of what you're singing about is somewhat painful. You've got to climb inside it all.

  

  Merle Haggard
  • Country
  • Singing
  • Painful