Brenda Lee Quotes

Chet Atkins... is probably the best guitar player who ever lived.

I didn't get to meet Hank Williams. I was in the Air Force on Okinawa when he passed away.

I don't know what else to tell you. I often think how different my life would have been - how much happier - if you'd been a part of it. One day.

It's not the same without Jerry. It never will be.

George Jones was my all-time favorite singer and one of my favorite people in the world.

I would trade everything I have to have had a happier childhood.

I miss Denny Crane.

My favorite songs to sing have always been songs about regret. I don't know why that is, but to me, that's country music.

Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.

I miss the game - I miss it a lot.

Jeff Beck is one of my heroes and has been since I first picked up a guitar.

The bat is gone, but the smile remains.

She missed him the days when some pretext served to take him away from her, just as one misses the sun on a cloudy day without having thought much about the sun when it was shining.

When you don't do something anymore, all of a sudden everyone treasures it.

If I had any advice to give to anybody, it would be record your parents talking so that, when you're longing to hear that voice, you can play the tape. But for me, it's a little often. You don't always need to be reminded that he isn't here anymore.

Being away from the game took a toll on my heart.

I just really wish I'd met my grandfather.

I love playing music with Duane Eddy.

To me, Hank Williams is the first rock-and-roll star.

What you've never had, you never miss.

I've missed a lot of football.

I left parts of myself everywhere, The way absent-minded people leave Gloves and umbrellas Whose colors are sad from dispensing so much bad luck

I lay around and wonder why you were always there for me.

God, I wish you could have been there.

I rarely think about my childhood. It's a slippery thing I can't keep hold of for long - it slithers out of my grasp. And a lot of the time I remember what was missing instead of what was there. I am a chronicler of absence.