It will be the first time I've played live with a double bass.
God bless Merle Haggard. He did all the things that Johnny Cash was supposed to have done.
I know lots of people who are educated far beyond their intelligence.
In the south there's a difference between 'Naked' and 'Nekkid. ' 'Naked' means you don't have any clothes on. 'Nekkid' means you don't have any clothes on and you're up to somethin'.
The only way that I could figure they could improve upon Coca-Cola, one of life's most delightful elixirs, which studies prove will heal the sick and occasionally raise the dead, is to put bourbon in it.
It's difficult to think anything but pleasant thoughts while eating a homegrown tomato.
"Have you done your homework?" my mother would ask. "I'll do it later. " "You will do it now, young man. I don't want you winding up on the third shift at Flagg-Utica. " Flagg-Utica was a local textile plant. Somehow, I never could figure how failing to read three chapters in my geography book about the various sorts of vegetation to be found in a tropical rain forest had anything to do with facing a life as a mill hand. But with enough guilt and fear as catalysts, you can read anything, even geography books and Deuteronomy.
If I could speak all the languages of earth and of angels, but didn't love others, I would only be a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.
When I hear a person talking about political solutions, I know I am not listening to a serious person.
Doctors tell me I have the body of a thirty year old. I know I have the brain of a fifteen year old. If you've got both, you can play baseball.
One of the outstanding tragedies of this age of struggle and money-madness is the fact that so few people are engaged in the effort which they like best. Everyone should find his or her particular niche in the world's work, where both material prosperity and happiness in abundance may be found.