“Besides that, I felt guilty. I thought for some reason…”

Listening to his songs she heard nothing but bad news, still she made her mind up to try to get him win or lose.

His songs were soon curled on the lips of the world, they had earned him the highest acclaim.

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.

All I know how to do is take what’s on my mind and spit it out funny. I don’t know what else I could do besides comedy.

Besides… next to giving pain my favourite sport’s to feel it.

Besides the mistakes that are pointed out, I love the way readers become involved with the characters.

I think the writer’s quite low down in the hierarchy really. But the fact that they took the piss out of Nicholas [Hynter] who, besides being the director, is also director of the National Theatre is, I’d have thought, slightly more risky.

If we are inclined to forget how much there is in the world besides that which we anticipate, then works of art are perhaps a little to blame, for in them we find at work the same process of simplification or selection as in the imagination.

The best beauty secret, besides sleep and plenty of water, is do whatever it is – before you go out, before you need to feel beautiful – do whatever makes you feel confident.

Less than the weed that grows beside thy door.

Should women be on any pills besides birth control? We should just give them all sugar pills for everything, they’re so suggestible.