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

  Kinky Friedman

  Believe, Lama, Dalai

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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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• 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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• In New York, I was excited about the music in New York because the only music that I was more or less involved with in the South was either country and western or hillbilly music as we used to call it when I was a kid and, ah, gospel. There was no, there was no in between. And when I got to New York all the other musics that's in the world just came into my head whether it was the classics, jazz, I never knew what jazz was about all, had heard anything about jazz.

  Ben E. King

  Country, New York, Kids

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Last night I dreamed I went to hillbilly heaven and you know who greeted me at the gate? The ole cowboy-philosopher himself, Will Rogers.

  Tex Ritter

  Death, Cowboy, Night

  Song: I Dreamed Of A Hill-Billy Heaven

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

  Flannery O'Connor

  Tennessee, Georgia, States

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• Sallie Mae sounds like a naive and barefoot hillbilly girl but in fact they are a ruthless and aggressive conglomeration of bullies located in a tall brick building somewhere in Kansas. I picture it to be the tallest building in that state and I have decided they hire their employees straight out of prison.

  David Sedaris

  Girl, Kansas, Bully

  "Saddled with student debt? Welcome to America's screwed generation" by Natalia Antonova, www.theguardian.com. August 1, 2012.

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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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• I was always drawn to the roots music, bluegrass, blues, early rock - Sun Records, Elvis [Presley]. And I still love that music to this day. Memphis never gets the credit. It's much more musically rich than Nashville ever will be. Nashville manufactured that hokey-hillbilly image way back.

  Steve Young

  Nashville, Roots, Rocks

  Interview with Gordon Ames, www.outlawmagazine.com. May 2, 2012.

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• Those songs [from church], I think, shaped to some degree how I would evolve as a writer, pentameter of songs, the melodies of those kind of hillbilly hymns - I used to refer to them - because they were not Southern gospel as much as they were passed down from Scottish Welsh Protestant hymnals.

  Dwight Yoakam

  Song, Thinking, Hymns

  Source: www.npr.org

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