Mel Tillis famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

You know, it comes from my mother's side of the family. She had seven sisters and one brother, and all of them could play instruments. I suppose I picked it up from that.
-- Mel Tillis

#Mother #Brother #Play
I'll do about 13 shows in Branson next year, and I'll be performing at the Grand Palace.
-- Mel Tillis

#Years #Next Year #Palaces
I didn't get to meet Hank Williams. I was in the Air Force on Okinawa when he passed away.
-- Mel Tillis

#Air #Okinawa #Passed Away
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

#Scripts #Cards #Stuttering
And then, when I started to school, I found out I couldn't talk.
-- Mel Tillis

#School #Found
And my daddy could play a harmonica and also the guitar, so I guess I got a little bit from both of 'em, but I think mostly from my mother's side of the family.
-- Mel Tillis

#Mother #Thinking #Guitar
I'm gonna do between 75 and 100 dates. A lot of it will be in Laughlin, Nevada; I'll be there for two weeks. And I'll work some casinos here and there, and the fair dates.
-- Mel Tillis

#Two #Casinos #Week
But I've got a lot of ideas, I bought me a ranch in Florida and I still have my farm in Ashland City, Tennessee so I'm gonna spend a little time at each one of those places and you'll probably hear some more songs out of me.
-- Mel Tillis

#Song #Cities #Ideas
And I had to take care of a little dog too named Suzy. It was the promoter's wife's - Judy Lynn's - it was her dog. And one of my duties going on the tour was to take care of it.
-- Mel Tillis

#Dog #Wife #Care
But in those days - in the mid-'50s, early '60s - there was less than 300 radio stations that were playing country music and a lot of that wasn't full time.
-- Mel Tillis

#Country #Radio

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