Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.
I won all the blue ribbons for canning at the state fair.
Because Olivia Newton-John wasn't from Nashville, they didn't like her winning our awards. I've got no complaints.
There's never going to be another Patsy Cline. Without her, I don't think I would have lasted.
I know there's some kind of history to mountain music-like it came from Ireland or England or Scotland and we kept up the tradition.
I'm proud of being part Cherokee, and I think it's time all us Indians felt the same way.
I'd love to work more with the American Indians, my people.
A world where everything was easy would be a nursery for babies, but not at all a fit place for men.
Many occasions I've sat down with Israelis to say, where do you see your country in 10 years time, and work me back, so we can figure out the synergies and the connections between Israel and the rest of the Arab world. No Israeli has ever been able to answer that question.
Aquatic animals suffer from the disadvantage that they cannot scream when in pain, so we find it hard to gauge the degree of their agony. If fish could scream, angling purely for sport would be outlawed without delay.
Misers mistake gold for their good; whereas 'tis only a means of attaining it.