Don't be a blueprint. Be an original.
Put your trust in the Lord and go ahead. Worry gets you no place.
My health is good; it's my age that's bad.
You've got to capture an audience. You don't go out there and just sing, or just play. If you can't capture an audience, you might as well not be out there.
Any game you play, you got to lose sometime.
I'd like to be remembered as a man who went to Heaven and not another place.
The greatest thing the Democrats have ever done for me was to defeat me for the governor of Tennessee.
I don't owe one man one cent. Anywhere.
I'm just another Opry entertainer. I'm not the start of the Opry, and I'm not the ending. I'm not the Alpha, and I'm not the Omega. It's been a pleasure taking part in the Opry and country music these many years. I'm part of a big operation.
Television made a lot of difference in country music. It's progress. I believe in progress.
I've done a whole lot of things. I've had the pleasure of introducing two presidents, several senators and congressmen.
