Freedom cannot be given... It can only be taken away.

- David Allan Coe

If there ever was a poet for the working class Billy Joe Shaver and Merle Haggard would be my nomination

- David Allan Coe

I've written songs about things that nobody else has ever written about.

- David Allan Coe

Marty Robbins once sang you give me a mountain, I've been given a few mountains in my life

- David Allan Coe

Anybody who goes searching can find enough artistic things I've done that nobody can ever say I sold out.

- David Allan Coe

You don't have to call me 'Mister', Mister; The whole world called me 'Hank'!

- David Allan Coe

It is not the beauty of a building you should look at; its the construction of the foundation that will stand the test of time.

- David Allan Coe

Now I lay me down to cheat on the woman I love so, and if I die between these sheets I pray to God she'll never know.

- David Allan Coe

Teach my children to love! They'll learn to hate on their own

- David Allan Coe