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Be careful how you suggest things to me. For there is in me a madness which goes beyond martyrdom, the madness of an utterly idle man.
— G.K. Chesterton
Appeared fierce, but Oscar decided this was due more to the fact that his face was still cut and swollen from
— Loren D. Estleman
I am continually embarrassed by people who point me out as an example of what can be done without training.
— Kate Smith
...the liquor like fire in his hand
— Sharon Olds
No, my son's a songwriter and he does that.
— Mel Tillis
And I got to know Red Foley well. And I got to know Lefty really well, he was a great guy.
— Mel Tillis
You know, being an entertainer is partly being on the road, and a lot of your songs come from the road.
— Mel Tillis
I'll do about 13 shows in Branson next year, and I'll be performing at the Grand Palace.
— Mel Tillis
Well, you know, back then there wasn't many albums, it was the singles. You sold singles.
— Mel Tillis
I always like story songs, Dolly Parton, Tom T. Hall, Mel Tillis, Red Stegall, when they'd do their story songs. I was totally enthralled.
— Reba McEntire
What is real is beyond all reach.
— Julien Green
I wanted to get rid of the element that had been considered essential in pop music: the voice.
— Brian Eno
I didn't get to meet Hank Williams. I was in the Air Force on Okinawa when he passed away.
— Mel Tillis
But if you put a script up in front of me to read, or a cue card, I couldn't do it without stuttering.
— Mel Tillis
Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.
— Xenophon
But now I've been in the arena for 47 years and I stutter less today than I did in those days.
— Mel Tillis
I'm not retiring.
— Mel Tillis