If anybody in my business knew as much about their business as the public did, they'd be all right! Hank Williams More Quotes by Hank Williams More Quotes From Hank Williams If you mind your own business, you won't be minding mine. Hank Williams 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 entertainment 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
