Hank Williams Quotes

7 Sourced Quotes

Hear that lonesome whippoorwill?
He sounds too blue to fly.
The midnight train is whining low,
I'm so lonesome I could cry.

Hank Williams
No matter how I struggle and strive,
I'll never get out of this world alive.

Hank Williams
A good song is a good song, and if I'm lucky enough to write it, well....! I get more kick out of writing than I do singing. I reckon I've written a thousand songs and had over 300 published.

Hank Williams
Say hey, good lookin',
What you got cookin',
How's about cookin' something up with me?

Hank Williams
You've got to have smelled a lot of mule manure before you can sing like a hillbilly.

Hank Williams
I can settle down and be doing just fine Till I hear an old train rolling down the line, Then I hurry straight home and pack And if I didn't go, I believe I'd blow my stack I love you baby, but you gotta understand When the Lord made me he made a ramblin' man

Hank Williams
[The country singer] sings more sincere than most entertainers, because the hillbilly was raised tougher than most entertainers. The people who has been raised something like the way the hillbilly has, knows what he is singing about and appreciates it. For what he is singing, is the hopes, and prayers, and dreams and experiences of what some call the "common people." I call them the "best people," because they are the ones that the world is made up most of. They're really the ones who make things tick, wherever they are in this country, or in other country.

Hank Williams