Top 60 Hank Quotes

If Hank Williams Jr. wasn’t such a pathetic, wheezing fossil, I’d have a talk with him.

A lot of my friends, they think I grew up to rock and roll, but I didn’t. I grew up to Hank Williams, Jimmy Reid, Howlin’ Wolf, listening to a race record, blues.

I’m just humbled Hank Aaron even knows who I am. Growing up in Georgia… he’s a legend everywhere, but even more so there.

When I was young in L.A. and I couldn’t get into clubs or restaurants, I would call imitating celebrities and get a table, and it would work often. I was either Stallone or Mickey Rourke: ‘This is Sly. I may be late, but my buddy Hank will be there early.’

On ‘Ant-Man’, I took a rubber stamp from the office of Hank Pym, who’s played by Michael Douglas.

The reason we had an all-black outfield in ’51 is Don Mueller got hurt, so Hank Thompson was a legitimate replacement. So what? People talk about, ‘You’re the first to do this. You’re the first to do that.’ Don’t dwell on race all the time.

Each Hank Williams has always had an independent streak.

No other Hank Williams has ever screamed like I have. I guess that’s my way of officially being me.

Willie Mays could throw better, and Hank Aaron could hit more home runs. But I’ve got enthusiasm. I’ve got desire. I’ve got hustle. Those are God-given talents, too.

Grandaddy always had Hank playing out in the garage. I heard it so much I just started singing. It was like jumping in a pool. You just start swimming.

If you look at how much Hank Williams did by 29 years old, it makes you feel pretty worthless.

I gained about 60 pounds when I was preggers with Lil Hank, and I’m desperately trying not to do the same with our daughter.

By the age of 15, I knew over 40 Hank Williams songs.

Hank Cochran was a man of very few words, but certainly the words that he chose were the right ones to use.

When I pick up Hank Williams’ guitar or that first suit that Johnny Cash wore on stage, it empowers me.

When I go back to seek inspiration – whether it be from Chuck Berry, Howlin’ Wolf, the Beatles, Hank Williams, Ray Charles or Bob Dylan – it’s from the performance. Those artists are in the studio playing their instrument and singing. There’s no going back and redoing the vocals.

I love Hank Williams songs, but I love hearing Ray Charles sing them much more.

Even when I was 3 or 4 years old, I’d go out riding in the car with mom and dad, and I already knew all the songs off mom’s Hank Williams and George Jones records by heart. I remember just sitting in the back seat and singing them at the top of my lungs.

A Hank Cochran song in the studio is spiritual. It’s like singing a hymn in a church.

I guess when you take a look at the book ‘Atlas Shrugged,’ I think most people always like to identify with the main character – that would be John Galt. I guess I identify with Hank Rearden, the fella that just refused until the very end to give up.

The road has taken a lot of the great ones: Hank Williams, Buddy Holly, Otis Redding, Janis, Jimi Hendrix, Elvis.

I’m friends with Hank Azaria. We were on a show together 800 years ago, and we laugh every single time.

I grew up in Arizona listening to Hank Williams Jr., Johnny Cash, Tammy Wynette, and Dolly Parton.

My country stuff, it might sound like Hank Williams – that’s just the way it is. But I’d rather sound like Hank Williams than Trace Atkins.

I believe Dad will be respected in 300 years, like Beethoven. As will Elvis, as will the Carter Family, as will Jimmie Rodgers, Hank Williams.

I do like Hank Pym.

I’m mad at Hank Aaron for deciding to play one more season. I threw him his last home run and thought I’d be remembered forever. Now, I’ll have to throw him another.

I think, with Hank Paulson, the concept of a bailout was anathema to him from day one. He was a Republican; he’s a free marketeer. He believes in capitalism, and part of capitalism is believing in failure. And so the idea of bailing out an institution, I think, went against every part of him.

To me, Hank Williams is the first rock-and-roll star.

‘Lovelace’ was really great. I got to work with the wonderful Amanda Seyfried, Hank Azaria and Peter Sarsgaard, so it can’t get no better than that, right? I had a blast, and the film is a very, very well put together movie – from the director to the writing the cast.

I’ve written enough books with real celebrities, such as Walter Payton and Hank Aaron and Billy Graham, to know that fame looks good only to people who don’t have it.

I’m a product of my surroundings. I grew up on Hank Williams Jr., Johnny Cash, Jerry Reed, and also Run-D.M.C., the Beastie Boys, the Fat Boys, and Biz Markie.

I mean the home run king, to me, is Hank Aaron, but statistically, it’s Barry Bonds.

Hank Schrader is a really good guy – and so is Dean Norris.

I always wanted a guitar. I always wanted to be a cowboy singer because I also listened to Hank Williams, and he would always sing these neat romantic songs.

Well, it’s hard not to love Hank Williams!

Hank Williams seemed, like, so total to me, so committed to the lyric. He would actually rip the ends of the words off at the, you know – the end of the sentence. It sounded like he’d bite into the word and rip it off.

If Hank Williams had lived any longer, his name would have been one of the most hated in the land. Nashville would have dug him deep.

I don’t think you’d call me a traditionalist. But you can say I have an old soul, because I grew up listening to Conway Twitty and Hank Williams.

When I was pregnant with Alijah, little Hank would have all these questions. Where do babies come from? So I was open with him.

I mean, out of every five shows we do, there’s somebody saying Hank Sr.’s rolling around in his grave.

I don’t think Hank Greenberg thought of himself as the first Jewish baseball player – he was a baseball player who happened to be Jewish. I’m an artist who happens to be Latin.

My old firm, Goldman Sachs – traditionally, the best banks are leveraged 8:1. When we had the financial crisis in 2008, the investment banks were leveraged 35:1. Those rules had specifically been changed by a guy named Hank Paulson. He was secretary of Treasury.

‘Lovelace’ was really great. I got to work with the wonderful Amanda Seyfried, Hank Azaria and Peter Sarsgaard, so it can’t get no better than that, right?

I don’t know where Hank Aaron will break Ruth’s record but I can tell you one thing – ten years from the day he hits it three million people will say they were there.

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.

I love Hank Williams, he’s the original emo kid. Some of his lyrics remind me of, like, Promise Ring lyrics.

There’s only one Hank Williams, man. Singing that high-voiced style, them bluegrassers, I don’t see how they do it – Jimmy Martin, Bill Monroe – it’s just a natural thing, man.

Trying to sneak a fastball past Hank Aaron is like trying to sneak the sunrise past a rooster.

A significant event for me was learning Hank Williams, reconnecting with his music’s simplicity, which inspired me to inhabit the same territory. It’s different, because I grew up on Led Zeppelin, The Stooges and punk, so in that sense I’m mutating country and folk more than a few degrees.

The true Hank III fans want me to be me.

Hank’s the most amazing person on the planet, and if it’s not him, there’s no one else I want to be married to.

‘Neil Young Heart of Gold’, that was a valentine to Nashville and country music in the Grand Ole Opry tradition and Hank Williams.

My father took me to see Hank Williams on December 14th, 1952. I was two years and four months of age. And I remember a little cool eddy of hair hitting my cheek, and I remember the smell of his hair oil, and I remember the mingling tonality of the small talk before the show started. Those are my memories.

It’s right there on my birth certificate, ‘Shelton Hank Williams III.’ It’s not fake.

I grew up listening to Hank Williams and Johnny Cash, so arriving in Nashville in the ’60s was really exciting for me.

I turned 30 as a janitor. I was thinking at the time that Hank Williams died when he was 29. All my peers were at least 10 years younger than I was. I felt like an old has-been at the time.

My favorite bands are Hank Williams Jr. and Led Zeppelin. When it’s rock, it’s ’70s rock, and when it’s country, it’s ’70s country. For me, it’s the grit and dirt of music that I love so much.

I got Jimmy Hall from Wet Willie and he also plays now with Hank Williams Jr.

I’m Hank, I do a bunch of stuff.