Hillbilly Quotes

• People look at you, and they've got just the perfect little box for you, the perfect category. Call you a redneck. Call you a hillbilly. Like those were insults.

  Travis Tritt

  Redneck, People, Perfect

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• I get along with all the women singers, but especially Dolly Parton. We talk the same hillbilly language.

  Loretta Lynn

  Singers, Language

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• Hopefully I'll be the first Mexican-American going into Hillbilly Heaven.

  Freddy Fender

  Mexican, Heaven, Firsts

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• I'm no hillbilly singer.

  Elvis Presley

  Singers

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• Once in a while I get inspired and finish my act with the hillbilly hoedown.

  Loretta Lynn

  Inspired

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• We all got a hillbilly bone down deep inside.

  Blake Shelton

  Bones, Deep Inside

  Song: Hillbilly Bone, Album: Hillbilly Bone, 2010

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• Remember this, folks - I am a Hillbilly, and I don't always Bet the same way I talk. Good advice is one thing, but smart gambling is quite another.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Smart, Gambling, Advice

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness”, p.62, Pan Macmillan

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• My guitars, Cadillacs, and hillbilly music Is the only thing that keeps me hanging on.

  Dwight Yoakam

  Guitar, Cadillacs, Hanging On

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• I feel like I'm the luckiest person alive. I'm always waiting for that phone call: 'Hello. We've just realized you're really a no-talent hillbilly. We've made a horrible mistake and we'd like you to leave now.

  Lance Burton

  Mistake, Phones, Waiting

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• Maybe there is no Heaven. Or maybe this is all pure gibberish - a product of the demented imagination of a lazy drunken hillbilly with a heart full of hate who has found a way to live out where the real winds blow - to sleep late, have fun, get wild, drink whisky, and drive fast on empty streets with nothing in mind except falling in love and not getting arrested... Res ipsa loquitur. Let the good times roll.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Falling In Love, Fun, Hate

  "Gonzo Papers, Vol. 2: Generation of Swine: Tales of Shame and Degradation in the '80s". Book by Hunter S. Thompson, 1988.

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• I believe that Willy Nelson is the hillbilly Dalai Lama.

  Kinky Friedman

  Believe, Lama, Dalai

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• It's the hillbilly rock, beat it with a drum. Playin' them guitars like shootin from a gun. Keepin' up the rhythm, steady as a clock. Doin' a little thing called the hillbilly rock.

  Marty Stuart

  Gun, Rocks, Guitar

  Song: Hillbilly Rock, Album: Hillbilly Rock

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• Doing a thing call the Hillbilly Rock, some say it came from Elvis down in Tennessee.

  Marty Stuart

  Rocks, Tennessee

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• Usually going places makes me feel optimistic. And I'm a hillbilly, so heading to the countryside made sense a number of ways.

  Jenny Holzer

  Optimistic, Numbers, Way

  Interview with Kiki Smith, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 26, 2012.

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• We spend so much money on these dresses that are terrible. And what do we get out of it? Nothing - a piece of chicken and a roll in the hay with her hillbilly cousin - no thank you. My family's very close; I can do that at home.

  Chelsea Handler

  Cousin, Home, Dresses

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• I'm a native West Virginian and I've been called everything from a hillbilly to a stump jumper. I'm always proud of it; I'm very proud to be a West Virginian.

  John Raese

  Proud, West, Stumps

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• In 1965, when great young white artists in the English-speaking world were successfully re-channeling hillbilly and black music - you know Bob Dylan, Ray Davies, Pete Townsend, Keith Richards - they didn't get any money at first. They were all broke.

  Iggy Pop

  Artist, White, Black

  Interview with Bret Gladstone, pitchfork.com. August 13, 2007.

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• Love is the only thing that keeps me sane.

  Sue Townsend

  Love Is, Fighting On, Boxing

  Sue Townsend (2013). “Townsend Plays: 1: Secret Diary of Adrian Mole; Womberang; Bazaar and Rummage; Groping for Words; Great Celestial Cow”, p.321, A&C Black

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• Most people don't listen to classical music at all, but to rock-and-roll or hillbilly songs or some album named Music To Listen To Music By.

  Randall Jarrell

  Song, Rocks, Rock And Roll

  Randall Jarrell (1965). “A sad heart at the supermarket: essays & fables”

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• There was a misconception about me when I started off because I had my hair greased up and I have some vague resemblance to the hillbilly gene pool that Elvis came from. People would say, 'You want to be Elvis' and I would say, 'No'.

  Chris Isaak

  Hair, Resemblance Is, People

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• I was kind of a little redneck growing up, living on a farm, and running around in the country. I developed hillbilly tendencies, but I wanted to listen to something a little more meaningful than "Redneck Woman" or whatever.

  Lydia Loveless

  Meaningful, Running, Country

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Deep down, I'm just a West Virginia hillbilly.

  Brad Paisley

  Virginia, West, Deep Down

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Tennessee's a hillbilly dumping ground, and Georgia's a lousy state too.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Tennessee, Georgia, States

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• For me, jazz, R&B, jump swing, Chicago blues, country blues, early hillbilly music, and honky tonk all stem from the same source

  Duke Robillard

  Music, Country, Swings

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• Sleep late, have fun, get wild, drink whisky and drive fast on empty streets with nothing in mind but falling in love and not getting arrested.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Falling In Love, Fun, Sleep

  FaceBook post by Hunter S. Thompson from Sep 17, 2014

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