Hank Williams Jr. Quotes

Johnny Cash has always been larger than life.

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

Patty Griffin is iconic, and there's no other word to really describe her. She is iconic for a lot of people - not only for me but for a lot of fans. Her voice is one of a kind, and she's such an important figure in the American music scene.

Willie Nelson is not just a star or a headliner, he's a legend.

I thought he was the greatest thing. Bob Dylan.

I'll never outdo Hank Williams. That's impossible.

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

What makes Gucci Mane Gucci Mane is like what made Frank Sinatra Frank Sinatra - it's just him. He's trap's Frank Sinatra.

Roy Acuff was a big hero for me, and I was so sad when he passed. It's hard as you get older to lose your friends and family.

This may be a dream, but I'll say it anyway: I was supposed to be married last year, and I bought a gown. When I meet Nelson Mandela, I shall put on this gown and have the train of it removed and put aside, and kiss the ground that he walks on and then kiss his feet.

Springsteen - he's the Lord God.

Walter Cronkite was the last newsman everyone trusted in the same way that the Beatles were the last music everyone loved and Marilyn was the last star everyone concurred was worthy of the word.

I only wish Chet Atkins could be here for this joyous occasion.

Very few people are blessed enough to call their father a legend, and an even smaller number are able to share that notion with the rest of the world.

When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it.

Patsy Cline is my favorite singer in the entire world - she is my idol. I adore her.

I get the same feeling walking into the Opry House as I do when I see one of my heroes.

I don't think anyone can measure up to what my father had achieved. I'm just happy to at least play some of his music, but he is really the one who was the pioneer, the one who started all this. He's really The King.

There is never anyone quite so wonderful as the people who were seniors when you were a freshman.

When I hear or see his name, I see the Glen I've always known. There will never, ever be another Glen Campbell.

If you're going to compare me to somebody and it's going to be Carrie Underwood, I will absolutely take that as a compliment.

I grew up listening to my mother's collection of Hank Williams, George Jones and Marty Robbins records.

Johnny Cash was like Abraham Lincoln to me.

Well, it's hard not to love Hank Williams!

I grew up listening to Mary J. Blige's music. When I initially met her, it was like, 'Oh, wow. I'm meeting this woman whose music was the soundtrack of my college years.'