#hillbilly

I feel like I'm the luckiest person alive. I'm always waiting for that phone call: 'Hello. We've just realized you're really a no-talent hillbilly. We've made a horrible mistake and we'd like you to leave now.' ↗

— Lance Burton

#always #call #feel #hello #hillbilly

Hopefully I'll be the first Mexican-American going into Hillbilly Heaven. ↗

— Freddy Fender

#first #going #heaven #hillbilly #hopefully

I'm no hillbilly singer. ↗

— Elvis Presley

#i #singer

Once in a while I get inspired and finish my act with the hillbilly hoedown. ↗

— Loretta Lynn

#finish #get #hillbilly #i #inspired

The old man had been tanned by the light of too many beer signs, and it just goes to show that you can’t live on three packs of Chesterfields and a fifth of bourbon a day without starting to drift far too fuckin’ wide in the turns. ↗

— Daniel Woodrell

#grim #hard-boiled #hard-life #hillbilly-noir #life-sucks-then-you-die

If Arkansas is, indeed, one big family, Eureka Springs remains its eccentric uncle. ↗

— Rex Nelson

#humor #family

Never. Never ask for what ought to be offered. ↗

— Daniel Woodrell

#winter

You got to have smelt a lot of mule manure before you can sing like a hillbilly. ↗

— Hank Williams

#got #hillbilly #like #lot #manure

I get along with all the women singers, but especially Dolly Parton. We talk the same hillbilly language. ↗