Hank Williams

“Folk music is the music of the people. I'm just a part of the people.”

“You don't know me, but you don't like me.”

“If a song can't be written in 20 minutes, it ain't worth writing.”

“If you're gonna sing a sad song, you have to live a sad life.”

“You got to have smelt a lot of mule manure before you can sing like a hillbilly.”

“To sing a country song is to sing with a lump in your throat.”

“I was a pretty popular kid, and I was a loner at the same time.”

“People who make music together cannot be enemies, at least while the music lasts.”

“Everybody's got a right to their own opinion, but I don't know anybody that I'd rather be than me.”

“Honky-tonk music is the only kind of music that expresses the way I feel.”

“When a man sings a sad song, he's singing about himself.”