Ray Wylie Hubbard Quotes & Sayings

I started out as a folk singer, and kinda got sidetracked playin' honky tonks and such, but I was always a working musician. I didn't want to be Townes Van Zandt or Guy Clark, but I wanted to play in front of their audiences, you know what I mean? — Ray Wylie Hubbard

Get out of your rut and into the groove ... — Ray Wylie Hubbard

I went to high school right outside Dallas, and (songwriter and performer) Michael Martin Murphey was a senior there when I was a sophomore or junior, really into folk and acoustic music. Larry Gross, who's the host of "Mountain Stage" on public radio, and B.W. Stevenson, also a musician, were there at the same time, too. Michael was a big inspiration
through him I discovered Woody Guthrie, Dylan, Jimmy Rogers. Then I ran into Jerry Jeff Walker there in Dallas back when he was just a folk singer. Those are my earliest influences. — Ray Wylie Hubbard

I believe I'll take off my colors for awhile / And just kick back and sing some blues ... — Ray Wylie Hubbard

It's not any more unusual to be born twice than it is to be born once. — Ray Wylie Hubbard

The days that I keep my gratitude higher than my expectations, I have really good days. — Ray Wylie Hubbard

Before I went on stage at Kyle Hutton's Real Life Real Music Festival, I heard one of his songwriting students, Abbey Hirvela, sing; she was in the poet's saddle and riding that horse like she owned it. She was good! I probably ruined her by showing her how to make an E chord without the 3rd though. — Ray Wylie Hubbard

Buddha was not a Christian, but Jesus would have made a good Buddhist. — Ray Wylie Hubbard