List of Buck Owens Quotes

You Get Up About 2-3 Oclock In The Morning And Get Through About 7 Or 8 And 12 Hours Later You Start All Over. Thats The Worst Kind Of Work A Person Can Do. You Have To Do These Two Shifts To Get One Day.

The Last 16 Years Of My Daddys Life, He Got To Work For Me, And That Made Him His Own Boss And He Like That.

But Most Distinctly, I Remember Always Saying To Myself That When I Get Big, I'm Not Going To Go To Bed Hungry, I'm Not Going To Wear Hand-me-down Clothes.

I'm From The Bob Wills And The Little Richard School Of Music. Bob Wills Did What The Hell He Thought, Little Richard Did What He Thought, And Those Were My Big Influences.

I'm Gonna Still Play Some Dates, But I'm Not Gonna Do Anything Near Like I Did It Before.

My Mother Told Me On Several Different Occasions That She Was Livin' Her Dream Vicariously Through Me. She Once Said That I Was Getting To Do All The Things That She Would Have Wanted To Have Done.

I Remember As A Kid Being Cold A Lot, And Hungry Sometimes. Wed Go To Bed With Just Cornbread And Milk, And I Remember Wearing Shoes With Holes In The Bottom. I Remember Having Twine For Shoestrings.

I Got To Realizing That I Wanted To Record, I Wanted To Experiment. And Doing Those Same Old Songs The Same Old Way - I Said, 'i Think It's Time For Me To Have Some Fun.'

The Road Had The Lonely Times, But I Kept Myself Busy.

If You Want Me In The Hall Of Fame Put Me In Because Of Some Contributions That I Have Made To Country Music.

I'm In An Absolute Frenzy Towards Doing As Many Things As I Can That I Want To Do Today. The Rest Can Wait Till Tomorrow, Next Week, If I'm Around We'll Take A Look.

That Was Where My Dream Began To Take Hold, Of Not Havin' To Pick Cotton And Potatoes, And Not Havin' To Be Uncomfortable, Too Hot Or Too Cold. That In Itself Had Driven Me To Try To Find Some Better Way Of Life.