Mel Tillis Quotes

• You know, it comes from my mother’s side of the family. She had seven sisters and one brother, and all of them could play instruments. I suppose I picked it up from that.

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• You know, being an entertainer is partly being on the road, and a lot of your songs come from the road.

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• You have to insulate yourself – I’m talking about from everything, people can be talking to you and you won’t hear ’em – that’s how you write a song. And I haven’t been able to do that over here ’cause I’m so busy and then, when I am off, I want to get away from music.

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• Well, you know, back then there wasn’t many albums, it was the singles. You sold singles.

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• Well, no, you can prepare it all you want, but I’d still stutter.

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• Or in the early days we didn’t have the bus, we had a station wagon.

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• No, my son’s a songwriter and he does that.

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• I’m not retiring.

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• I’m gonna do between 75 and 100 dates. A lot of it will be in Laughlin, Nevada; I’ll be there for two weeks. And I’ll work some casinos here and there, and the fair dates.

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• I’ll do about 13 shows in Branson next year, and I’ll be performing at the Grand Palace.

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• I remember li’l ol’ Hank Jr. – he was just a baby back in them days, you know – but he used to hang around. His mama would bring him around. He was just a natural.

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• I didn’t get to meet Hank Williams. I was in the Air Force on Okinawa when he passed away.

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• But Patsy, she was a great, great girl. And Brenda Lee is a wonderful person, and her mama Grace. I’ve known those folks for years and years and years.

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• But now I’ve been in the arena for 47 years and I stutter less today than I did in those days.

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• But in those days – in the mid-’50s, early ’60s – there was less than 300 radio stations that were playing country music and a lot of that wasn’t full time.

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• But if you put a script up in front of me to read, or a cue card, I couldn’t do it without stuttering.

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• But I’ve got a lot of ideas, I bought me a ranch in Florida and I still have my farm in Ashland City, Tennessee so I’m gonna spend a little time at each one of those places and you’ll probably hear some more songs out of me.

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• And you know, we’d go to church. We were Baptists. And every now and then there’d be a tent would set up, and it was the Holiness folks. And we liked their music.

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• And they turned around and leased it to The Assembly Of God Churches – their headquarters are in Springfield, Missouri. They leased it to them for the first year. Then, after the first year, they will donate it to the church.

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• And then, when I started to school, I found out I couldn’t talk.

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Birth:	8th August, 1932
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actor, Composer, Lyricist, Singer

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