Don’t be a blueprint. Be an original.

Im going to be eighty soon, and I guess the one thing that puzzles me most is how quick it got here.

I’d like to be remembered as a man who went to Heaven and not another place.

Television made a lot of difference in country music. It’s progress. I believe in progress.

The greatest thing the Democrats have ever done for me was to defeat me for the governor of Tennessee.

I don’t owe one man one cent. Anywhere.

I’ve done a whole lot of things. I’ve had the pleasure of introducing two presidents, several senators and congressmen.

There were people coming in here from New York, California, Chicago, all different places that had publishing companies, trying to buy my songs.

I ‘ m going to be eighty soon, and I guess the one thing that puzzles me most is how quick it got here.

Any game you play, you got to lose sometime.

Turn loose and have fun. Give the audience a show.

Put your trust in the Lord and go ahead. Worry gets you no place.

I think we got too much sleep.