I went around the corner to motion pictures.

She Got The Gold Mine, I Got the Shaft.

Music is the most powerful thing on this earth, and it's hard to be angry when you are listening to music.

Pray for intestinal fortitude, work hard, and keep the faith. Oh, and pray for good luck, you're gonna need it.

I got my first guitar at age of 7 and never laid it down. Momma taught me G, C, and D. I was off to the races son!

Smokey and The Bandit was just a lark. All we did was run up and down those Georgia roads wrecking cars and having the time of our life.

I put on your sequined ball gown and I checked the mirror there. Why, I looked like Cindy Crawford, but with much more body hair.

I am very grateful to God everyday that my eyes flutter open and I can jump out of that bed!

I used to get on a stove wood pile at 5-6 years old and I would have a piece of stove wood and kindling bark as a pick, and I was a star.

I have spent over 60 years bent over a guitar and to know that I wrote 70 compositions that masters have recorded, that makes me feel so good and full, and proud and thankful to the good Lord.

Well I thought my pickin' would set them on fire, but nobody wanted to hire a guitar man.

If justice takes place, there may be hope, even in the face of a seemingly capricious divinity.

What use is Order without Chaos to challenge its rule? And by the same standard, what lies ahead for us if nothing opposes our ways?

He who does not hope to win has already lost.

You know, you can touch a stick of dynamite, but if you touch a venomous snake it'll turn around and bite you and kill you so fast it's not even funny.

Market forces do not make cities, they destroy them

Life's a rodeo and all you have to do is stay in the saddle.

Correlations are not explanations and besides, they can be as spurious as the high correlation in Finland between foxes killed and divorces.

Make allowances for your friends' imperfections as readily as you do for your own.

The short story, I should point out, is perforce a labor of love in today's literary world; there's precious little economic incentive to write one.

The facts we see depend on where we are placed and the habits of our eyes.