“The only two things in life that make it worth livin’ / Is guitars that tune good and firm feelin’ women”

Men commit murder and all sorts of mayhem, in a few years they’re back on the streets.

Ladies love outlaws, like babies love stray dogs.

If you have the courage and you have the heart, that hero just might be you.

But Buddy was an upper. He was happy. He loved music, and he was really happy. I don’t know…

That was part of where Chet and I had problems, so I take complete blame for that.

I sat at a bar having a beer trying to hold down the stool.

They got me for possession of something that was long, long gone.

Country music isn’t a guitar, it isn’t a banjo, it isn’t a melody, it isn’t a lyric. It’s a feeling.

When I look at you girl, I see a true work of art. So many beautiful things coming in one little heart.

When you’re down in Texas, Bob Wills is still the king.

The men who could not fight, in a war that didn’t seem right. You let them come home, America.

Is your head up your ass so far that you can’t pull it out?

The rock and roll spirit. I learned a lot of that because I worked with Buddy Holly. I played bass with him, and he taught me a lot about that.

I love Johnny Cash, and I respect Johnny Cash. He’s the biggest. He’s like an Elvis in this business, but no, he’s never been the rebel.

Mainly what I learned from Buddy… was an attitude. He loved music, and he taught me that it shouldn’t have any barriers to it.

I’ve always felt that blues, rock ‘n’ roll and country are just about a beat apart.

You ought to run the hardest when you feel the worst. Never let the other guy know you’re down.

If this was love, love had been overrated.

A man’s love, till it has been chastened and fastened by the feeling of duty which marriage brings with it, is instigated mainly by the difficulty of pursuit.

Some people are so sensitive that they feel snubbed if an epidemic overlooks them.

As a global citizen, I sometimes feel like denying my identity.

Walk out, he repeated. We need to talk. About how you need to sacrifice me to get a human body? I asked, my tone light, my insides feeling leaden. That might be cute if you thought it was true.

If you can’t feel then why did you kiss me? Because i can feel it here, in my heart.

Right now, holding you, i feel like we have a shot at beating all odds and making it together.