Redneck Quotes - Page 6

• Elvis couldn't leave the hotel except under heavy guard. It was incredible how they went wild over him.

  Minnie Pearl

  Hospitality, Incredibles, Heavy

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• It's pretty amazing to me that my first hit record was an Elvis Presley record.

  Mac Davis

  Firsts, Records

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• I was nuts about Elvis, like every girl in America.

  Brenda Lee

  Girl, Nuts, America

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• Elvis was just like a big old kid. It was like he never got past 19, I don't think, in a lotta ways.

  Mac Davis

  Kids, Thinking, Past

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• I didn't have a lot of communication with Elvis. You had to go through a barricade to get to Elvis. It was people hanging on every word, and I felt very uncomfortable a lot of times.

  Mac Davis

  Communication, People, Hanging On

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• I met Elvis first in Las Vegas. I think I was appearing with Tom Jones and he came backstage to say hello to Tom or we went to his dressing room to say hello.

  Norm Crosby

  Thinking, Las Vegas, Rooms

  Interview with Elvis Australia, www.elvis.com.au. February 15, 2005.

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• My mom listened to the Beatles and Elvis, a lot of different types of music.

  Travis Barker

  Mom, Different, Type

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• You can call us rednecks if you want. We're not offended, 'cause we know what we're all about. We get up and go to work, we get up and go to church, and we get up and go to war when necessary.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  War, Church, Want

  CMT Awards, 2007.

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• You can take Elvis. You can take Marilyn Monroe. Success and fame will not be the answer if something inside of you is bothering you, if things in your mind aren't going right.

  Linda Evans

  Success, Congratulations, Bothering You

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• I love Johnny Cash, and I respect Johnny Cash. He's the biggest. He's like an Elvis in this business, but no, he's never been the rebel.

  Waylon Jennings

  Respect, Rebel, Cash

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• When somebody like Elvis Costello comes along, anybody can make a good record with him.

  Nick Lowe

  Records, Good Records

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• Without Elvis none of us could have made it.

  Buddy Holly

  Music, Made, Made It

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• Anybody can be unhappy. We can all be hurt. You don't have to be poor to need something or somebody. Rednecks, hippies, misfits - we're all the same. Gay or straight? So what? It doesn't matter to me. We have to be concerned about other people, regardless.

  Willie Nelson

  Hurt, Hippie, Gay

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• 'WASP' is the only ethnic term that is in fact a term of class, apart from redneck, which is another word for the same group but who are in the lower social strata, so it's inexplicably tied up with social standing and culture and history in a way that the other hyphenations just are not.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Class, Facts, Groups

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• I'm just glad to be feeling better. I really thought I'd be seeing Elvis soon.

  Bob Dylan

  Feel Better, Feelings, Glad

  "Bob Dylan 'Feeling Better" released from hospital". www.mtv.com. June 2, 1997.

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• There was a chance for me to write one song for the section where Elvis sat in his black leather outfit and sang the old hits. At eight oclock the next morning I had written Memories.

  Mac Davis

  Song, Morning, Memories

  "Interview with singer/songwriter Mac Davis". Interview with David Adams, www.elvis.com.au. May 9, 2015.

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• It’s just what they are — they’re jokes…most jokes are about Jewish people, rednecks, black folks…I can’t determine what offends another person.

  Paula Deen

  People, Black, Folks

  "Paula Deen Admits Using The N-Word & Making Racial Jokes In Explosive Deposition". Paula Deen's deposition in court on case brought forth by former Paula Deen Enterprises employee Lisa Jackson against Deen and her brother, Earl “Bubba” Hiers, radaronline.com. June 18, 2013.

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• You might be a redneck if you give your dad a gallon of Pepto-Bismol for his birthday.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Dad, Giving, Might

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• And if there's any hope for America, it lies in a revolution, and if there's any hope for a revolution in America, it lies in getting Elvis Presley to become Che Guevara.

  Phil Ochs

  Lying, America, Revolution

  Liner notes for compilation album "The Broadside Tapes 1" by Phil Ochs, 1989.

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• I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.

  Elvis Presley

  Music, Witty, Humorous

  Quoted in Robert Byrne, The Other 637 Best Things Anybody Ever Said (1984)

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• When I get married, it'll be no secret.

  Elvis Presley

  Wedding, Secret Love, Married

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• Elected office holds more perks than Elvis' nightstand.

  Dennis Miller

  Funny, Humor, Office

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• Is Billy Idol just doing a bad Elvis pout, or was he born that way?

  Freddie Mercury

  Idols, Way, Pouting

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• It was Elvis who really got me hooked on beat music. When I heard 'Heartbreak Hotel' I thought, this is it.

  Paul McCartney

  Hospitality, Beats, Hotel

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• I guess I thought I was Elvis Presley but I'll tell ya something. All Elvis did was stand on a stage and play a guitar. He never fell off on that pavement at no 80 mph.

  Evel Knievel

  Mph, Guitar, Play

  Interview With Tony Marx, mnmotorcycle.com. June 6, 2001.

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