I wish I was back at WSFA making twelve dollars a week. At least then, if someone come to see me, I’d know they were coming to see me. Now I reckon they just want something from me. Hank Williams Read Quote
Personally, I cain’t stand classical stuff, but I don’t tell the world about it. I just turn the radio off. Now, why cain’t these folks who don’t like my kind of music do the same? Hank Williams Read Quote
The way I feel is that if you don’t like folk music, stay away from my shows. Hank Williams Read Quote
Somebody got the idea nobody didn’t listen to my kind ‘a music. I told everybody on the radio that this was my last program. ‘If anybody’s enjoyed it,’ I said, ‘I’d like to hear from ’em.’ I got 400 cards and letters that afternoon and the next mornin’… They decided they wanted to keep my kind of music. Hank Williams Read Quote
You booked him, and you didn’t worry about crowds. For drawing power in the South, it was Roy Acuff, then God. Hank Williams Read Quote
To sing like a hillbilly, you had to have lived like a hillbilly. You had to have smelt a lot of mule manure. Hank Williams Read Quote
I’ve just signed a contract to make records in Nashville. It won’t amount to much at first, but after a year or so, I will really be in the money. Hank Williams Read Quote
It makes me mad to hear these popular orchestras make a jammed-up comedy of a song like ‘Wreck on the Highway.’ It ain’t a funny song. Hank Williams Read Quote
I have noticed that these pop bands will play our hillbilly songs when they cain’t eat any other way! Hank Williams Read Quote
