Yodeling Quotes

Gene Autry was the most. It may sound like a joke - Go and have a look in my bedroom, It's covered with Gene Autry posters. He was my first musical influence.

I did pretty good for a guy who never finished high school and used to yodel at square dances.

I learned a lot from Jimmie Rodgers when I started trying to yodel.

I'm a big rock 'n' roll head, I love country music, I love yodeling music. But I'm still black and funky.

I'm tellin' ya I get no respect. When I was in Switzerland, I got an obscene yodel.

It's like a prize fighter. He knows he has a fight coming up, so he gets in the gym and trains. So when I have a show coming up, I practice yodeling.

My wife Santa is a fanatical skier, going to Klosters many times a year. To please her, I have for 12 years tried to ski, abseil, mountain-climb, para-scend, heli-ski, land-lauf, ice-skate, toboggan, luge, bobsleigh, yodel, gulp gluhwein, dunk bread in cheese fondue, or even walk in the mountains. I have failed at every one of these pursuits.

First time I ever sang was in a contest in Louisiana when I was 9. And I won yodeling.

I don't mind listening to some yodel music. I don't think I'm particularly good at it, but that's the point, I guess.

And I don't really have anyone upon whom I want to rain down my wrath," I said, because in truth I didn't. I always felt like you had to be important to have enemies. Example: Historically, Germany has had more enemies than Luxembourg, Margo Roth Spiegelman was Germany. And Great Britain. And the United States. And czarist Russia. Me, I'm Luxembourg. Just sitting around, tending sheep, and yodeling.

I always sang when I was little-bitty girl. I sang all the time. And then I'm from Knoxville, Tennessee, so I sang in a show at Pigeon Forge, Tennessee. You know, they have all those variety shows where Dollywood is. And I sang there and yodeled and clogged, but I never wrote my own songs.

I learned to yodel pretty well. It took me a few months, but I eventually perfected it.

That's one thing you hear in my voice today. I could yodel from one octave to another octave. It always fascinated me.

I couldn't do no yodelin', so I turned to howlin'. And it's done me just fine.

People that could yodel always fascinated me. People that could sing loud always fascinated me. So I started trying to mimic at a really young age: 6, 7 years old.

Sometimes humans hit on a moment of profundity more complete than their dim minds could comprehend, and they took that nugget of truth and dumped it in the refuse for the bards and the poets to find, and mangle into yodeling paeans of love.

If I would have listened to the naysayers, I would still be in the Austrian Alps yodeling.