Lewis Grizzard Quotes

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

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

And I got to know Red Foley well. And I got to know Lefty really well, he was a great guy.

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

And I think it's safe to say that the single very impressive figure to me was Merle Haggard.

My dad recently reminded me that my grandfather's cousin was Lefty Frizzell.

The records in the house I really remember were, well, Glen Campbell's 'Wichita Lineman' and 'Galveston.' Even as a kid, I knew these songs were glorious. My dad also had records by Merle Haggard, Charley Pride, Waylon Jennings, and then there was also the Eagles and Don Henley. Anything Texas, which includes Don Henley, was big.

I really like Alan Jackson, in Country Music. I think he's really very, very talented along with George Jones, and Merle Haggard, the same old favorites.

I saw footage of Johnny Cash and Elvis Presley just hanging out together in Memphis when they were young guys getting started at Sun, listening to records together. That was beautiful to me.

I'm a lover of old traditional country - George Jones, Merle Haggard, Tammy Wynette, Marty Roberts.

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

I have a penchant for Tammy Wynette and Dolly Parton.

Some of my biggest commercial musical influences would be people like Merle Haggard, George Jones, of course, Johnny Cash. People that wrote and sang their own stuff, I really admired.

George Jones, Johnny Paycheck all them dudes they're respected and they were twice as crazy as I'll ever be.

I admire those old road dogs, Willie Nelson, Bob Dylan. That's their life.

I always loved bluegrass, but there was so much I didn't know about American country music in respect to the origins of this country. It was interesting to see the evolution of it.

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.

I loved Carl Perkins, Jerry lee Lewis... not only were they personal friends.

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'm a big Johnny Cash girl. And I love singers like Laura Marling and Joanna Newsom.

If I'm listening to country, it's Hank Williams, George Jones, Merle Haggard and stuff like that. If people out there don't take that stuff seriously, well, they just haven't listened to it and don't know what they're talking about.

I grew up with the Grand Ole Opry, Dottie West, Conway Twitty, Buck Owens... not realizing it was influencing me as much as it was.

I don't like all of the contemporary country. I like some of it, but I'm mostly into the traditional style.

I don't like modern country music. It's not what I'm into, is all. I'm old-school.

If there ever was a poet for the working class Billy Joe Shaver and Merle Haggard would be my nomination.