I'm just another Opry entertainer. I'm not the start of the Opry, and I'm not the ending. I'm not the Alpha, and I'm not the Omega. It's been a pleas….

I've done a whole lot of things. I've had the pleasure of introducing two presidents, several senators and congressmen..

Put your trust in the Lord and go ahead. Worry gets you no place..

Television made a lot of difference in country music. It's progress. I believe in progress..

I'd like to be remembered as a man who went to Heaven and not another place..

You've got to capture an audience. You don't go out there and just sing, or just play. If you can't capture an audience, you might as well not be out….

My health is good; it's my age that's bad..

I don't owe one man one cent. Anywhere..

Any game you play, you got to lose sometime..

Don't be a blueprint. Be an original..

The greatest thing the Democrats have ever done for me was to defeat me for the governor of Tennessee..