Best Merle Haggard Song Quotes & Sayings

There's just enough drinking and cheating songs around without me adding to them. Unless you've got something better than "Misery and Gin" by Merle Haggard, you're beating a dead horse. — Aaron Watson

It's cool when your husband starts to sing some old Merle Haggard song and I can pop in with a harmony and it doesn't sound too bad. — Trisha Yearwood

Read about some squirrelly guy who claims that he just don't believe in fighting, and I wonder how long the rest of us can count on being free. — Merle Haggard

I think it was Tommy who told me, 'When your song is called 'XYZ' or whatever, every line has got to make sense against your title.' He showed me little methods of proving to yourself whether the line belongs, and ways of finding out whether you were able to get more out of a line if you tried. — Merle Haggard

If I hear another line dance song I think I'm going to puke. — Merle Haggard

There's just a few people that call themselves stars can actually sit down with a guitar and sing you a song. — Merle Haggard

Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Merle Haggard, Hank Williams ... all of them are different styles, but those are the songs that make the times ... they're the songs that last through time. — Dolly Parton

It sounds like something from a Woody Guthrie song, but it's true; I was raised in a freight car. — Merle Haggard