Mel Tillis Quotes

I love Loretta Lynn, and I love Roy Clark and Johnny Cash, everybody.

One of the most quotable guys ever in country music was Grandpa Jones.

I want to play the Grand Ole Opry for sure. And I want to meet and play with people like Emmylou Harris and Vince Gill.

I love Nashville. It's such a great town, and I'm a huge country music fan. That's what I listen to on the radio in the car.

You booked him, and you didn't worry about crowds. For drawing power in the South, it was Roy Acuff, then God.

Willie Nelson, Marty Robbins, Merle Haggard and Keith Whitley - guys like that were huge influences.

I love Marty Robbins, I love Glen Campbell, Loretta Lynn, Patsy Cline.

The only two jobs I ever had were with Lester Flatt and Johnny Cash.

My dad was a country musician, so we had David Allan Coe and lots of other country music playing around the house all the time.

God bless Merle Haggard. He did all the things that Johnny Cash was supposed to have done.

I didn't really get crazy about Bob Wills until 1940.

But Patsy, she was a great, great girl. And Brenda Lee is a wonderful person, and her mama Grace. I've known those folks for years and years and years.

Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys are simply the best band that ever was.

As far as heroes thorough the years, I'd say definitely Alabama and Randy Owen, Conway Twitty was a big influence of mine, George Strait, Lionel Richie.

I am a Patsy Cline fan.

I was mainly influenced by the Carter Family, Jimmie Rodgers, Loretta Lynn, Merle Haggard, and others like Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash.

Country music belongs to America.

I tell my audiences today that I served 10 years in Nashville! That's a joke, of course; I was grateful for the work. Bob Ferguson, who produced Connie Smith, Porter Wagoner and Dolly Parton, started calling me in.

The road has taken a lot of the great ones: Hank Williams, Buddy Holly, Otis Redding, Janis, Jimi Hendrix, Elvis.

The single most exciting thing that happened for me was getting to spend some time in the studio with both Marty Stuart and Vince Gill.

I think Kenny Chesney or Garth Brooks would be the coolest duet partners. I look up to them so much for their work ethics.

I thought, when I came to Nashville, I was going to hook up with some of the top country writers in town and write some country tunes.

Getting to do shows with Lady Antebellum, Keith Urban, and Sam Hunt is just awesome. It's so inspiring because I grew up such fans of Lady A and Keith, and to be able to sing my songs on the same stage as them and then stand side stage and watch them is just a really special thing.

I love Jimmy Bryant, and I love Albert Lee. Roy Clark. Chet Atkins. I love those pickers.

I grew up in Arizona listening to Hank Williams Jr., Johnny Cash, Tammy Wynette, and Dolly Parton.