I remember, and still do to this day, looking around all the faces of the people in the audience next to me and around me, and I saw the happiness that they were experiencing as a result of what these performers were doing. And I remember looking at my mom and saying, ‘That’s what I want to do.’ And she took that to mean music. I’m not sure in retrospect if that’s what I meant, but that’s what it turned out to be for me.

Hank Williams

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If you mind your own business, you won't be minding mine.

Hank Williams

There ain't a man livin' who hasn't talked to his dog.

Hank Williams

his who man dog

There ain't nobody I'd rather have alongside me in a fight than my mama with a broken bottle in her hand.

Hank Williams

nobody fight me broken

If you think I'm a drunk, you shoulda seen my old man.

Hank Williams

think you man drunk

If you're gonna sing, sing 'em something they can understand.

Hank Williams

sing something understand you

Folk songs express the dreams and prayers and hopes of the working people.

Hank Williams

prayers songs dreams people

You got to have smelt a lot of mule manure before you can sing like a hillbilly.

Hank Williams

sing got like you

The way I feel is that if you don't like folk music, stay away from my shows.

Hank Williams

feel you music way

To sing like a hillbilly, you had to have lived like a hillbilly. You had to have smelt a lot of mule manure.

Hank Williams

lived sing like you

Somebody got the idea nobody didn't listen to my kind 'a music. I told everybody on the radio that this was my last program. 'If anybody's enjoyed it,' I said, 'I'd like to hear from 'em.' I got 400 cards and letters that afternoon and the next mornin'... They decided they wanted to keep my kind of music.

Hank Williams

listen nobody music cards

I have noticed that these pop bands will play our hillbilly songs when they cain't eat any other way!

Hank Williams

eat will play way

I'm nothing but a drunkard. Why do people expect me to be anything else?

Hank Williams

expect nothing me people

I wish I was back at WSFA making twelve dollars a week. At least then, if someone come to see me, I'd know they were coming to see me. Now I reckon they just want something from me.

Hank Williams

i-wish someone me wish

I don't know one note from another.

Hank Williams

note know another

Man, it's hell to have a wife who thinks she can sing, and she can't.

Hank Williams

she man hell wife

I was a pretty good imitator of Roy Acuff, but then I found out they already had a Roy Acuff, so I started singin' like myself.

Hank Williams

pretty good myself like

I have been living in Montgomery so long that I call it home.

Hank Williams

call living home long

I think I'm good enough to play and sing.

Hank Williams

good think enough play

My mother played the organ in church at Georgiana, and I sat on the seat beside her.

Hank Williams

seat her church mother

In this business, if you're a success, there's some folks who actually worship you. I have been to some places where it's impossible to walk across the stage without having the major portion of my outfit torn off for souvenirs.

Hank Williams

walk you business success