Redneck Quotes - Page 10

You might be a redneck if you missed 5th grade graduation because you had jury duty.

If you think the last four words to the national anthem are " gentleman, start your engines", You might be a redneck.

First of all, "redneck" is a state of mind, not a person. So the "racist redneck" thing is a state of mind, not a geographical location. So I don't mean to imply that it's just Southerners. And if you don't recognize the racist underpinnings and the emotional reactive response you're getting from these teabaggers because we have a black president, then you are either being dishonest, or you've never seen the teabaggers.

Im not a redneck, Im from Texas.

My mom listened to the Beatles and Elvis, a lot of different types of music.

I grew up in a whaling town. We didn't stop whaling in Australia until 1978. And I've always lived in fishing communities. You could say I'm from the Redneck Wing of marine conservation. Everything I know about the sea I learnt at the end of a spear or a hook. Seems weird to admit it, but I hunted and killed my way to enlightenment. Eventually you see where you've been. All the traces you leave are gaps and absences. And it's a sick feeling, knowing you might bequeath a full dose of Nothing to those who come after you.

I did admire the comments and the music of Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie. And that didn't fly too well in the Deep South. It was not quite redneck enough.

Music saved my life a few times because I could play the stuff rednecks loved. They thought I was great and they wondered why I didn't do that all the time.

It's partly the Southernization of America, in that the Southern working-class version of redneck is becoming the national version, and it's good-natured, it has humor and, in some ways, it's a performance.

Most of us had never seen a sober redneck before, and we have the Reagan Landslide to testify that none of us ever wants to see one again. It was a horrifying apparition. And ever since Jimmy Carter, all of us rednecks have had to be very careful to be drunk rednecks lest we turn into some kind of awful creature with big buck teeth and a State Department full of human-rights yahoos.

When somebody like Elvis Costello comes along, anybody can make a good record with him.

If I were scared of rednecks, I would've moved on a long time ago. That's not a fear I struggle with.

The rednecks. Well, you're not going to get there with climate change and [Vladimir] Putin and all the rest of it.

You just have to get out of the bubble and you have to quit listening to yourself. People are really hurt. The irony of this is, though, had Ms.[Hillary] Clinton listened to her husband instead of her boss, she might could have stopped this Rust Belt redneck revolt.

Elvis was just like a big old kid. It was like he never got past 19, I don't think, in a lotta ways.

It's pretty amazing to me that my first hit record was an Elvis Presley record.

I'd breed a little liberal army in the wood, just like these redneck lunatics I see at the local bar with their tribe of mutant inbred piglets.

I met a redneck on a Grecian isle who did the Goat Dance very well.

Guys like Otis Blackwell and Bobby Darin, and all the guys who were writing songs for Elvis at the time, just hanging around, writing songs, talking about music.

If you're a redneck, you have that blood flowing through your veins. That's almost on the bucket list, to hear "Freebird" live.

You might be a redneck if you've ever stood in line to get your picture taken with a freak of nature.

You might be a redneck if your local ambulance has a trailer hitch.

You might be a redneck if your Momma would rather go the racetrack than the Kennedy Center.

You might be a redneck if you watch cartoons long after your kids get bored.

You might be a redneck if you're still scalping tickets after the concert is over.