There are only four or five real events that we have that draw that many people into town each year. We should have at least 12; and once we have 12, we can have 24.

She Got The Gold Mine, I Got the Shaft.

I went around the corner to motion pictures.

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.

You don't have the right to complain about your life if you're not willing to change it

Language exerts hidden power, like the moon on the tides.

Books are like rivers, meandering this way and that, but taking us on a steady, flowing course to somewhere different.

The damnest scoundrel that ever lived, but in the infinite mercy of Providence... also the damnest fool.

A law imposing criminal penalties on protected speech is a stark example of speech suppression.

I have assigned many of my father's basses to students, without endangering their lives. Also, they do no harm to the fingers.

Heaven and earth fight in vain against a dunce!

We were so ready [with Valerian] that we were early, which is unheard of in the history of the sci-fi film.

The systems perspective tells us that we must look beyond individual mistakes or bad luck to understand important problems.

Fixing our thoughts on Jesus requires time, for true reflection cannot happen with a glance. No one can see the beauty of the country if he hurries through it on the interstate.