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Ray Wylie Hubbard Quotes

The days that I keep my gratitude higher than my expectations, I have really good days.

The days that I keep my gratitude higher than my expectations, I have really good days.

Ray Wylie Hubbard
Gratitude, Good Day, Expectations

Buddha was not a Christian, but Jesus would have made a good Buddhist.

Ray Wylie Hubbard
Christian, Jesus, Buddhist

It's not any more unusual to be born twice than it is to be born once.

Ray Wylie Hubbard
Unusual, Born
Song: Conversations with the Devil

I believe I'll take off my colors for awhile / And just kick back and sing some blues.

Ray Wylie Hubbard
Believe, Color, I Believe
Song: After All These Years, Album: Eternal and Lowdown

I went to high school right outside Dallas, and (songwriter and performer) Michael Martin Murphey was a senior there when I was a sophomore or junior, really into folk and acoustic music. Larry Gross, who's the host of "Mountain Stage" on public radio, and B.W. Stevenson, also a musician, were there at the same time, too. Michael was a big inspiration -- through him I discovered Woody Guthrie, Dylan, Jimmy Rogers. Then I ran into Jerry Jeff Walker there in Dallas back when he was just a folk singer. Those are my earliest influences.

Ray Wylie Hubbard
Senior, Inspiration, School

I started out as a folk singer, and kinda got sidetracked playin' honky tonks and such, but I was always a working musician. I didn't want to be Townes Van Zandt or Guy Clark, but I wanted to play in front of their audiences, you know what I mean?

Ray Wylie Hubbard
Mean, Play, Guy

Before I went on stage at Kyle Hutton's Real Life Real Music Festival, I heard one of his songwriting students, Abbey Hirvela, sing; she was in the poet's saddle and riding that horse like she owned it. She was good! I probably ruined her by showing her how to make an E chord without the 3rd though.

Ray Wylie Hubbard
Horse, Real, Riding

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