Best 66 quotes of Merle Haggard on MyQuotes

A house without love ain't a home.

And there's some Latino music I like, and some reggae music.

At my age, I don't buy but a half a loaf of bread, you know?

Back when the country was strong, back before Elvis and before the Vietnam war came along.

'Cause I was already a smoker, it was easy to get addicted. The one thing that they don't teach you about marijuana is how addictive it is.

Despite of all my Sunday learnin', toward the bad I kept turning.

Diana Krall knocks me out. I like jazz and I like her simple approach.

Everybody likes Johnny Cash. I think the sad part of it is his health is givin' him problems.

Evolution is a laughing matter for anybody that's got a rational mind.

Guitar playing is very important to me. It's like golf to some other people; it's important to me that I play good.

HAG Records, is a company that I've owned. I've had a couple of gospel releases on it. We developed a pretty good distribution setup there and we do have something to use in case they don't want to sign us.

Heaven knows that alcohol is the worst thing in the world, but it's debatable whether cocaine is worse than caffeine or whether it's the same thing and they just changed the name.

Hey, hey, the working man, the working man like me. I ain't never been on welfare, that's one place I won't be.

I can't really say why everyone loves Bob Wills' music, but I have yet to meet a person who didn't like it.

I don't think there's ever been a friendly divorce.

I enjoy the videos with the sound off, where you can look at the belly buttons and everything. Really some pretty girls, but I don't know about the music.

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

I had some surgery on my feet, which has helped my back some.

I haven't had any problems with my back since I got the foot surgery.

I just follow my nose, and instead of letting someone run my affairs and probably make me wealthy within a matter of years, I've just kept the board of directors down to zero. I make all the decisions, and they can't all be right, and my lifestyle is very expensive, so that means I have to work a lot. It's the opposite side of the coin from sinking back into the recliner and becoming somebody they bury.

I'll tell you what the public likes more than anything, it's the most rare commodity in the world - honesty.

I'm just writin' about my little ol' love affair.

I'm proud to be an Oakie from Muskogee, a place where even squares can have a ball. We still wave Old Glory down at the courthouse and white lightning's still the biggest thrill of all.

In 1960, when I came out of prison as an ex-convict, I had more freedom under parolee supervision than there's available... in America right now.

I think I'm most proud of my family right now. I'm more into that then I've ever been. It also gives a new area to draw from in creativity with my songs.

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.

I think we have to have capital punishment, I think there has to be something to contain certain people. Those deterrents I think are necessary, especially in prison. You can threaten people for just so long, but they can flip you off and do what they want to; but not if they have to die. I hate it, though, the thought of the death penalty is terrible, but it's completely necessary.

It makes my wife mad, you know, she wants me to stay home all the time. But its what I've done all my life and I think when I quit doing it I'll probably go away pretty quick.

It's a long way from Graceland across Jordan to the Promised Land, but Jesus finally came to lead him home.

It's been said that Bill Gates has come up with something that'll be released in December that's gonna put a lid on counterfeiting. If that's a fact then it's really interesting to own your own product - with all the potential methods of downloading.

It's easier to force feed people than it is to give 'em what they want. It makes more money.

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

I've always known that I was a gifted person. ... I've always felt like I would be punished, severely, if I didn't continue to make use of that gift. It's very important that you don't let the muscle get flabby. It's really hard, as an old human being, to press as much weight as you pressed when you were a kid.

I was 48-years old before anybody talked me into it for medicinal purposes, instead of some of these drugs that they give you that will lead you to heart surgery and things of that nature.

I wish coke was still cola and a joint was a bad place to be.

Keep your opinions to yourself. I think it's important that I stay neutral on politics and remain hard to understand. I don't want to be pigeonholed as conservative, liberal, independent or anything. I back the man for the things the man believes in, not whether it says "R" or "D" down there beside his name.

Lay in the weeds and wait, and when you get your chance to say something, say something good.

My 10 year old son likes it. He's trying to play guitar and everything. He likes that kind of music.

My second wife Bonnie Owens and I worked together after we divorced for a period of maybe 20 years. And I managed to stay friends with another wife. And then there's one that I don't mess with. Everybody's got one of those.

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.

Running down on a way of life our fighting men have fought and died to keep. If you don't love it, leave it.

Sometimes if you get 'em too drunk they don't pay no attention to what you're doin' anyways, so you might as well just do old songs. But if you get one that's paying attention, sometimes we'll do some new material.

Staring at the world through the bottom of a glass, all I see is a man who's fading fast.

Stop rolling down hill like a snow ball headed for hell.

The Captain just gave us our orders, and Mom we must carry them through. I'll finish this letter first chance I get, but for now I'll just say I love you.

The guitar's not all that expensive either, when you compare it to gettin' a toothpulled or something.

The one true friend I thought I'd found, tonight the bottle let me down.

The only thing that I miss lately in all music is somebody that will put out a melody that you can whistle. It doesn't seem like there's anything happening like that.

There are so many conditions to programming in America, where it's dominated by these people that own 800 radio stations that have no idea who to play and who not to play, and they listen to somebody or read somebody else's programming sheet and go by Buck Owens' opinion or something. Eight hundred stations are controlled by some guy that doesn't have a clue as to what to do about music.

There's a rumor that there may be an attempt at organizing a possible script for a series on my life, which, when you look at my police record, you'd have to have more than one hour to tell the story.