Honky Tonks Quotes

The country crowd just has fun.

I did choir, soccer, some theater. The only weird thing about my life was that I was playing honky-tonks on the weekends.

Obviously I love Nashville, I love Tennessee. It's a great organization to play for.

When I first came to Nashville, people hardly gave country music any respect. We lived in old cars and dirty hotels, and we ate when we could.

I loved Nashville. I was amazed by the whole place.

I love Nashville. It's such a great town, and I'm a huge country music fan. That's what I listen to on the radio in the car.

It turns out, the bikers and the truckers and people in dive bars are the nicest people in the world.

I grew up listening to Hank Williams and Johnny Cash, so arriving in Nashville in the '60s was really exciting for me.

In most red states, country music is a major way of life.

My guitar is a 1934 National Trojan. They call it a resonator, which is the guitar guys played in the honky-tonks before amplification. It's very loud. It's the type of guitar that Son House and Robert Johnson played.

Growing up, I remember thinking country music was all honky-tonks and beer and trucks - Britney Spears was my first concert.

And I always say, when Southern people get on the dance floor, they ain't getting off.

I've always been a big fan of Nashville, and I have friends that live there.

Well, the things that country music is parodied for sometimes - trains, drinking, sin, cheating, redemption, jailhouses, rambling, hoboing, on and on, all those things - according to The New York Times, every one of those subject matters is still relevant.

Nashville's been like my second home.

Ooooh, I love Nashville! It seems like everywhere you walk, there's great music coming out of every wall.

I love to sing swing and shuffle stuff. Radio may not play it coast to coast, but I love playing them. Man, they fill the dance floor up. People who live the night life at these honky-tonks eat this stuff up.