Merle Haggard Quotes

• When I grew up there wasn’t air-conditioning or anything of that nature, and this old car had a wall thickness of about ten inches. So we had a little warmer house in the winter and a little cooler in the summer.

  Merle Haggard

• Well, I’m kinda like George Carlin. I think that there ought to be a time where everybody should have all the drugs they want and there’d be nobody in charge, sort of like… now!

  Merle Haggard

• They shaved a little piece of bone off my small toe. You see, you balance yourself a certain way and this toe had grown under the other ones. So he cut it loose, where I could balance myself and it makes me walk straight.

  Merle Haggard

• There’s been periods of broadcasts in the past where you could see all ages of entertainers, ranging from George Burns to Shirley Temple. That’s not the condition now.

  Merle Haggard

• There’s a rumor that there may be an attempt at organizing a possible script for a series on my life, which, when you look at my police record, you’d have to have more than one hour to tell the story.

  Merle Haggard

• The only thing that I miss lately in all music is somebody that will put out a melody that you can whistle. It doesn’t seem like there’s anything happening like that.

  Merle Haggard

• Sometimes if you get ’em too drunk they don’t pay no attention to what you’re doin’ anyways, so you might as well just do old songs. But if you get one that’s paying attention, sometimes we’ll do some new material.

  Merle Haggard

• No, I had a back injury early on in my life.

  Merle Haggard

• My second wife Bonnie Owens and I worked together after we divorced for a period of maybe 20 years. And I managed to stay friends with another wife. And then there’s one that I don’t mess with. Everybody’s got one of those.

  Merle Haggard

• It’s been said that Bill Gates has come up with something that’ll be released in December that’s gonna put a lid on counterfeiting. If that’s a fact then it’s really interesting to own your own product – with all the potential methods of downloading.

  Merle Haggard

• My 10 year old son likes it. He’s trying to play guitar and everything. He likes that kind of music.

  Merle Haggard

• It sounds like something from a Woody Guthrie song, but it’s true; I was raised in a freight car.

  Merle Haggard

• It makes my wife mad, you know, she wants me to stay home all the time. But its what I’ve done all my life and I think when I quit doing it I’ll probably go away pretty quick.

  Merle Haggard

• In 1960, when I came out of prison as an ex-convict, I had more freedom under parolee supervision than there’s available… in America right now.

  Merle Haggard

• I’ve got two families.

  Merle Haggard

• I’ve got one young family by the first wife, with four children.

  Merle Haggard

• I’m just writin’ about my little ol’ love affair.

  Merle Haggard

• I was 48-years old before anybody talked me into it for medicinal purposes, instead of some of these drugs that they give you that will lead you to heart surgery and things of that nature.

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• I think I’m most proud of my family right now. I’m more into that then I’ve ever been. It also gives a new area to draw from in creativity with my songs.

  Merle Haggard

• I haven’t had any problems with my back since I got the foot surgery.

  Merle Haggard

Merle Haggard (32)

Birth:	6th April, 1937
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Guitarist, Lyricist, Singer, Violinist

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