“There’s nothing prettier in the world than a melody. I can get lost in a song with a melody.”

After the first couple of years recording I did a lot of praying. I said, ‘Lord, please give me a hit.’ I want one so bad.

The only thing different between sinners and saints is one is forgiven and the other ain’t.

Today they forget you in five years. They give an artist nowadays four or five years and that’s it.

If people liked your singing well enough, if you were special to them, then you never left their minds throughout all of the years.

I just thank God I’m still here and the main thing is to try to get closer and closer to Him as much as I can so that I can treat my friends and my family the way they should be treated.

He stopped loving her today, they placed a wreath upon his door.

Anybody who loves country music loves gospel.

Be real about what you do. Stay true to the voice inside you.

You can’t put this possum in a cage

I just want to keep living on and enjoying food! Even though I’m gaining weight,

Walk through this world with me, go where I go. Share all your dreams with me, for I love you so.

There, gleaming in the glow, was that ten-horsepower rotary engine under a seat.

I’d rather sing a sad song than eat.

No matter what song I recorded or sang, I did it my way.

Even they are competing with the same type of problem that I’m competing with.

I would have loved to had that break, but it never was offered to me, a job in that field, so naturally, I got lost on that other road.

I am still under the impression that there is nothing alive quite so beautiful as a thoroughbred horse.

Socrates said, our only knowledge was “To know that nothing could be known;” a pleasant Science enough, which levels to an ass Each Man of Wisdom, future, past, or present.

To see nothing is to perceive the Way, and to understand nothing is to know the Dharma, because seeing is neither seeing nor not seeing, and because understanding is neither understanding nor not understanding.

A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, Nothing else.

To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss.

Everything sacred, nothing sacred.

Nature does nothing without purpose or uselessly.

I wish the music business was a much easier thing, but you know what? Nothing easy is worth anything. So it is what it is.