- When I finally put my guitar in the case the last time, I want to be remembered just as a singer, not as a country singer or pops singer - just a singer.
- Touring is really a pretty lonely business.
- (On singing with string-based orchestras to create what became known as "the Nashville sound") I got to thinking, if I just took the same kind of songs I'd been singing and added violins to them, I'd have a new sound.....They [the country music establishment] cussed me, but the disc jockeys grabbed it.....The artists began to say, "Aww, he's left us". Then, within a year, they were doing it!
- I had recorded with a little group for so long that there wasn't anything for me to do from an instrumental standpoint. I had to be reborn.
- Don't be afraid to fall flat on your face.
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