I don't think you can have a better secretary of the Treasury than Hank Paulson.
Finally learning his baseball history, on the topic of Hank Aaron and his home run record
I missed you, Angel. Not one day went by that I didn't feel you missing from my life. You haunted me to the point that I began to believe Hank had gone back on his oath and killed you. I couldn't escape you and I didn't want to. You tortured me, but it was better than losing you.
The last song I recorded with [Hank Williams, Sr. ] was "I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive. " I remember thinking, "Hoss, you're not just jivin'," because he was so weak that all he could do was sing a few lines and then just fall in the chair.
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.
I didn't get to meet Hank Williams. I was in the Air Force on Okinawa when he passed away.
I get a singular comment that's very revealing: "I didn't know what to expect. " Every time I hear that I think it's really just code for, "I wasn't sure I'd be comfortable with you in this role," which I understand coming from Oscar Bluth and Hank Kingsley and whatever. But I think there's a degree of, "Oh, okay, this is how it is. " Then almost always people tell me that they love it and then people start talking to me about their families, whether it's transgender issues or not.
My manager was Buddy Glee, who put me together with Mike Curb, and was basically the idea to bring some soul to the label and bring something different to the label besides the Hank Williams situation.
Tod or Hank Wessel, Bill Dane, Paul McConough, Steve Shore. Robert Adams, for sure. I'm ready to see what they do. There's a lot of people working reasonably intelligently.
Hank, when people call people nerds mostly what they're saying is,'You like stuff'.
There," Zoë suggested. "By the Embarcadero Building. " "Good thinking," Chuck said. "Me and Hank can blend in with the pigeons. " We all looked at him. "Kidding," he said. "Sheesh, can't a statues have a sense of humor?
I recorded with Hank (Jones) a number of times, usually on dates where Milt was unavailable, and I thought he was the perfect pianist. He had a beautiful touch, knew all the best ways around the chord changes, and swung mightily. And he brought an air of cheerful competence to every date, making us all feel that it would be possible to make some very good music that day.
Did ole Hank really do it this way?
If you like Hank, you'll like Wilder Good, too.
I don't think I ever saw Hank with anybody, say, 'Let's go write a song. ' One Sunday morning we left Nashville to go to Birmingham to do a matinee and a night, and he said, 'Hand me that tablet up there. ' And he wrote down, 'Hey, good lookin', what you got cookin'' and before we got to Birmingham it was finished.
There were some parts of the film [Swiss Army Man] that the Daniels [Kwan and Scheinert] really wanted to look as elegant as a piece of ballet. As Hank and Manny go on in the story, they get better and better at being with each other and more and more adept - Hank knows more and more what Manny's going to need at any given point, and having that choreography helps a bit.
In retrospect Hank I don't know why I spent four years writing this book when I could have just made a hit sing-a-ma-jig album.
I'm friends with Hank Azaria. We were on a show together 800 years ago, and we laugh every single time.
I love Hank Williams. Who doesn't love Hank Williams? So my choices are not that surprising.
Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Merle Haggard, Hank Williams. . . all of them are different styles, but those are the songs that make the times. . . they're the songs that last through time.
