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Merle Haggard

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TYLER FARR And I think it's safe to say that the single very impressive figure to me was Merle Haggard.
WARREN ZEVON Willie Nelson, Marty Robbins, Merle Haggard and Keith Whitley - guys like that were huge influences.
STURGILL SIMPSON I hung out with Merle Haggard on his bus, which sort of freaks me out. It was him and his wife. We p...
DIERKS BENTLEY I'm a lover of old traditional country - George Jones, Merle Haggard, Tammy Wynette, Marty Rober...
JOHNNY VAN ZANT Youve got to be an optimist to be a Democrat, and youve got to be a humorist to stay one.
WILL ROGERS Around 14, I was turned on to Shania, Reba, Merle Haggard, Garth Brooks, Trisha Yearwood... and I...
LAURA BELL BUNDY If there ever was a poet for the working class Billy Joe Shaver and Merle Haggard would be my nomina...
DAVID ALLAN COE I listen more to music when I'm on my computer. I'm into the latest YouTube thing. I'm a...
JASON MCCOY I was mainly influenced by the Carter Family, Jimmie Rodgers, Loretta Lynn, Merle Haggard, and other...
IRIS DEMENT It's cool when your husband starts to sing some old Merle Haggard song and I can pop in with a h...
TRISHA YEARWOOD I really like Alan Jackson, in Country Music. I think he's really very, very talented along with...
TANYA TUCKER I had Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard on my show long before the general public caught up to them, ....
GLEN CAMPBELL When I grew up there wasn't air-conditioning or anything of that nature, and this old car had a ...
MERLE HAGGARD Well, I'm kinda like George Carlin. I think that there ought to be a time where everybody should...
MERLE HAGGARD 95% of the album is my writing, by choice, because it seems to be what the distributors want.
MERLE HAGGARD Sometimes if you get 'em too drunk they don't pay no attention to what you're doin' ...
MERLE HAGGARD It's been said that Bill Gates has come up with something that'll be released in December th...
MERLE HAGGARD There's been periods of broadcasts in the past where you could see all ages of entertainers, ran...
MERLE HAGGARD It sounds like something from a Woody Guthrie song, but it's true; I was raised in a freight car...
MERLE HAGGARD The only thing that I miss lately in all music is somebody that will put out a melody that you can w...
MERLE HAGGARD At my age, I don't buy but a half a loaf of bread, you know?
MERLE HAGGARD I was 48-years old before anybody talked me into it for medicinal purposes, instead of some of these...
MERLE HAGGARD He has this crazy style, and he has this mystique about him. He's still that way. You know, nobody k...
MERLE HAGGARD Buck influenced a lot of people, from The Beatles to me. Buck and I were in a lot of battles over th...
MERLE HAGGARD It's a wonderful thing to live as long as I have and to be appreciated and, well, just to be here fo...
MERLE HAGGARD That I'm a contrary old son of a bitch, I guess,
MERLE HAGGARD Let's Get Out of Iraq
MERLE HAGGARD In 1960, when I came out of prison as an ex-convict, I had more freedom under parolee supervision th...
MERLE HAGGARD We're going back to remember the forgotten ones,
MERLE HAGGARD We've been in many battles together (always on the same side). Over the last few years, we'd become ...
MERLE HAGGARD He was an asshole, so I hit him.
MERLE HAGGARD I enjoy the videos with the sound off, where you can look at the belly buttons and everything. Reall...
MERLE HAGGARD They shaved a little piece of bone off my small toe. You see, you balance yourself a certain way and...
MERLE HAGGARD In 1960, when I came out of prison as an ex-convict, I had more freedom under parolee supervision th...
MERLE HAGGARD And then I have two children by Theresa, one boy 10 and one girl 13.
MERLE HAGGARD There's a rumor that there may be an attempt at organizing a possible script for a series on my ...
MERLE HAGGARD I try to write like the writers I admire - I rip them off in form. It comes from George Strait and M...
BRAD PAISLEY Its a very concerted effort with the city of Portsmouth, the state of New Hampshire, the FBI and all...
JAMES ADAMS My music comes from country music. Merle Haggard is God, and I do believe that. I'm not too tune...
LOUDON WAINWRIGHT III Weve got a lot more than a lot of people.
IAN WILLIAMSON You see for me, America is an idea. It is a stage for transformation. I felt when I came to Iowa Cit...
BHARATI MUKERIEE I had always loved music. I grew up listening to classic country, Waylon Jennings, Merle Haggard. My...
JAKE OWEN If I'm listening to country, it's Hank Williams, George Jones, Merle Haggard and stuff like ...
BUZZ OSBORNE [The settlement sets a dangerous precedent for future zoning permit disputes in Eureka Springs, Harr...
KATHY HARRISON We wanted to see how we could do in this meet because Carson City-Crystal and Kent City were going t...
CECIL BURCH In the last couple of years, it has done incredible business in every major city across America. The...
CAMERON MACKINTOSH It probably wasn't the prettiest game you'll see but at least we gave the effort.
JALEN ROSE The Bowery was a place that would let us do original songs - not just covers - but we would have to ...
RANDY OWEN to the victor go the spoils
THE AMERICA We're in position both in the boys and girls. We've just got to see what kind of move we can make.
BOB TIPTON (Rapid City) Central, of course, is running awfully well, and Sturgis has been running very well. Sc...
FORRY FLAAGAN I figured I got the prettiest, sweetest, smartest wife ever to be," he said softly.
JAN HOLLY I've had mentors who were kind of the troubadour singer-songwriters, like Merle Haggard, Loretta...
JEWEL Chicago is unique. It is the only completely corrupt city in America.
CHARLES EDWARD MERRIAM Obviously, young boys across America watching Selection Sunday dream about stuff like this. To be he...
CAMERON LEDFORD Well if done a lot of hard work to try and get people to act rationally, the fact that weve had 15 d...
LEE KUAN YEW It's good to start off with a win. It wasn't the prettiest or cleanest of games. We've got things to...
JOE CARUSO Boys always like to see girls kiss. I don't get it; girls don't want to see boys kiss.
DOMINIQUE SWAIN I’ve found you’ve got to look back at the old things and see them in a new light.
JOHN COLTRANE I'd done a big movie that I wasn't happy with, and I was moving out of London when I got app...
ROGER DEAKINS Weve had some moral victories this season. Weve had one-goal losses against teams that did a number ...
EVA LANG In America, sex is preached; in France, it is done.
FRITZ LANG There'll probably be some detractors. ... It probably is a little difficult for people to see it, bu...
JOE TRIPODI That's got to be the ultimate goal, ... that's what everybody wants to see done in the end.
KEVIN ARNOLD It shows America in a way that the world needs to see it right now ... and a way that America needs ...
ORLANDO BLOOM I wasn't the biggest Captain America fan, but increasingly, I see him as a great character. Wint...
TA-NEHISI COATES I never see any difference in boys. I only know two sorts of boys. Mealy boys and beef-faced boys.
CHARLES DICKENS When I was growing up, it was the guys who were hardest at school who got the prettiest girls. It...
MARTIN COMPSTON You think of those kids out there. I say kids. I have seen them. They are the greatest. You see thes...
RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON Light is prettiest in the dark.
JOYCE RACHELLE If nothing gets done it'll just get worse. You'll see more potholes. You'll see more sidewalks uplif...
DAVID GARCIA I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.
AUGUSTUS I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.
AUGUSTUS CAESAR I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.
CAESAR AUGUSTUS It's an America with strange mythic depths. I see it as a distorting mirror; a book of danger and se...
NEIL GAIMAN I’ve found you’ve got to look back at the old things and see them in a new light.
JOHN COLTRANE Now maybe we'll bring the Beach Boys to Atlantic City for a Christmas show.
DAN LEE I'd love to break America, like all artists do. It's a lot of work but, you know, it's g...
RACHEL STEVENS I haven't found that many differences playing in America as opposed to playing in Europe. In my eyes...
IAN POULTER I dont really think its all that settled yet, ... Weve got a good group of guys, though. Im sure eve...
AARON KATZ From the catbird seat, I've found poetry to be the necessary utterance it has always been in Ame...
NATASHA TRETHEWEY A great catch is like watching girls go by the last one you see is always the prettiest.
BOB GIBSON A great catch is like watching girls go by, the last one you see is always the prettiest.
BOB GIBSON A great catch is like watching girls go by the last one you see is always the prettiest.
BOB GIBSON I like my money right where I can see it... hanging in my closet.
SARAH JESSICA PARKER Many people have compared me to the Victorian adventure writer, Rider Haggard. I accept that as a co...
WILBUR SMITH I'd like to see where boys and girls end up if they get equal encouragement - I think we might h...
SHERYL SANDBERG So youve been over into Russia? said Bernard Baruch, and I answered very literally, I have been over...
LINCOLN STEFFENS You're the best gay friend I've ever had!
AMERICA TALKING TO FRANCE The first city I ever came to in the states was Des Moines. I was 12 and was in a boys' choir.
ST. LUCIA I was giddy when I found out how well she had done. They are really amazing to see.
GARY DUNN People got to see the real Whitney Houston, the Whitney Houston that journalists and industry inside...
JAWN MURRAY I went to Brooklyn College and met this beautiful Jewish girl named Merle, with dark hair, exotic lo...
DOMINIC CHIANESE It was a scrap, not the prettiest of innings,
GRAHAM THORPE Quebec City is the most European of any city in North America; they speak French all the time. There...
SEBASTIAN BACH It wasn't the prettiest of games, but it was a game we had to be in in order to learn how to win.
TODD BERTUZZI I think it just got to the point where this was a priority for the City Council, the mayor and for t...
GINA GOBO We looked at the restaurant market in Indianapolis and just found it is a great and growing city.
FREDDY SANCHEZ tired and haggard, unrepentant, even defiant.
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MERLE SHAN One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.
MERLE SHAIN It's the men behind who make the man ahead.
MERLE CROWELL One often learns more from ten days of agony than ten years of contentment.
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MERLE KESSLER I like to stretch myself and push the envelope, so anything that's new or different or not of my...
MERLE DANDRIDGE My father and brothers were coal miners.
MERLE TRAVIS He wouldn't be seen as a Dukakis or a Kennedy, but it doesn't go that far. They've never heard of hi...
MERLE BLACK So,' he said. 'What do you think of it?'
She twisted towards the fire and watched the flames be...
CLAIRE MERLE I'm going to get out of here,' she said.
'That's the spirit.' Tamsin sighed, letting go of her ...
CLAIRE MERLE How can anyone prove they're not insane to people that are?
CLAIRE MERLE For the state tournaments, some of them were in here Tuesday wanting their tickets and we didn't sta...
MERLE OLBERDING It's the men behind who "make" the man ahead.
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MERLE SHAIN She froze because she was not able to believe what happened.
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MERLE SHAIN A lot of (residents) have never been out of the state. All they know is working on a farm.
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who don't ask
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MERLE GILMORE We need to involve everybody. We will need to use all of our resources.
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H. RIDER HAGGARD Ah! how little knowledge does a man acquire in his life. He gathers it up like water, but like water...
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